Product Details

• Actors: Rebecca Balding, Fred McCarren, Anne-Marie Martin, Jeff Harlan, John Crawford
• Directors: James L. Conway
• Writers: David O'Malley, Jim Kouf, Thomas C. Chapman
• Producers: Bill Cornford, Carole Fontana, Charles E. Sellier Jr., Cliff Osmond
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Republic Pictures
• VHS Release Date: July 14, 1998
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0782008062
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #171,022 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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When a long-abandoned Utah silver mine is reopened 100 years after a mysterious massacre, a group of young and amorous miners must face off the enthusiastically vicious monsters lurking beneath their feet. (From the little that is shown of the titular creatures, we can see that they closely resemble a cross between a snapping turtle and a ticked-off length of Jimmy Dean link sausage.) A nicely atmospheric drive-in classic that takes a while to get going, The Boogens boasts some creepy locations, a few good scares, and characters that are an intellectual cut above the usual splatter fodder (although they still have the nasty habit of splitting up and going off alone when investigating a strange sound). Superior schlock. --Andrew Wright

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A rare, shining gem in a tired, boring market, June 19, 2000

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"ithios2" (Silverton, Colorado (The film's Locale)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Boogens [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Wow! That's all I can say about this one. I first saw the Boogens when I was nine years old and it scared me so bad I couldn't even look under my bed for a week. I had to wait more than half a lifetime to find the movie again on VHS, but when I did it hadn't lost any of its gruesome charm whatsoever. Set in the majestic Rockies (my native territory) The Boogens focuses on four twenty-somethings who move into a nice, if somewhat sinister cabin in the woods which was the site of a brutal killing in the beginning of the film. The four soon split up for various reasons and go about their own ways. The story kicks into overdrive when the first of them is dragged under his vehicle and sliced open by the nasty claw of the Boogen. We see this only in quick flashes of ingenious editing that gives us only a "taste" of the real thing. Dark, cramped, sometimes unbearably spooky, the Boogens sent a message to us in the early eighties: Horror is not dead, not even sleeping, we just have to know which cave to look in to find the scariest monster, and The Boogens provided it. I thank the director and the cast for giving a nine-year-old boy the scare of a lifetime!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Boogens, October 20, 2000

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[e-mail] (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Boogens [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Boogens, despite its name, is a well paced horror film which pays justice to the cult monster movies of the 1950's. The editing style gives the viewer a well balanced blend of suspense, shock and gore to make the film both eerie and frightening. I originally saw this movie on cable about 18 years ago and was equally entertained after watching the VHS copy I recently purchased. The "Boogens," themselves, are a bit cheesy looking and were designed after a sheep's brain with slashing tenticles for legs (I learned this from the make up effects person in charge of creating the creatures for this film). The directing coupled with the editing style are what save this movie by giving us only a glimpse of the the creatures, keeping us on the edge of our seat for the majority of the film. This is one of the few real monster movies that are a credit to the monster genre.

I know 3 stars may not seem like much but only the best films are worthy of 4 and above.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scared for years, March 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Boogens [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was dating in high school when I saw this movie at the local drive-in. It scared me so much that I slept with my mother for a week...and never attempted to see it again. It is now 21 years later and I have never forgotten the title or the entire movie...it is vivid in my mind. I am going to purchase it, watch it again to see if my more mature mind will be as scared as the kid left in me. Mind you, I am not a slasher movie fan, and this was perfect. Just enough suspense without the gore. A must see for those of you that wish to be scared for years...