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Boogeyman [UMD for PSP] (2005)

Barry Watson (Actor), Emily Deschanel (Actor), Stephen T. Kay (Director) | Rated: PG-13 | Format: UMD for PSP
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Since movies began, thrillers have depended on a door just slightly ajar, with a narrow slit of darkness that promises to hold your worst fears. In the first five minutes of Boogeyman, a young boy's father is violently sucked into a closet, scarring the boy so badly that he grows up to be blank-faced Barry Watson (7th Heaven), who plays Tim, an editor at a newspaper or a magazine or something. Tim, to impress his girlfriend's parents, wears a coat and tie but doesn't shave his sexy stubble. A premonition of his mother's death drives him back to his childhood home so he can exorcise his phobias. From there...well, there's lots of atmospheric cinematography, regular jolts of loud music, and many quick edits. What actually happens is pretty obscure and, really, not worth unobscuring. The obsession with doors and doorknobs verges on the avant-garde. Also featuring a brief glimpse of Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess), wearing some truly terrible old-age makeup. --Bret Fetzer

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Every culture has one - the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years earlier. Is the Boogeyman real? Or did Tim make him up to explain why his father abandoned his family? The answer lies hidden behind every dark corner and half-opened closet of his childhood home - a place he must return to and face the chilling unanswered question does the Boogeyman really exist?System Requirements:Starring: Barry Watson Emily Deschanel Skye McCole Bartusiak Lucy Lawless Directed By: Stephen Kay Running Time: 88 Min. Copyright Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005Format: UMD Genre: HORROR Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396113336 Manufacturer No: 11333

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102 of 123 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars I thought the "Boogeyman" was supposed to keep me awake, February 5, 2005
By Clare Quilty (a little pad in hawaii) - See all my reviews
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If there's one trend in horror movies that really needs to go away it's the Loud Sudden Noise, aka the "SHREEENK!"

I mean that overamplified, more-annoying-than-scary racket that jumps from the speakers during a thriller whenever anything mildly startling happens. It usually sounds like a cello being sliced in two by a guillotine and it's a sure sign that a movie doesn't have any honest scares.

You know the drill:

The hero cautiously backs into a dark room and bumps into - SHREEENK! - a coat rack.

The heroine closes a medicine cabinet and in the mirror - SHREEENK! - sees the ghost of her great-aunt.

Few recent horror flicks have relied as heavily on the "SHREEENK!" as "Boogeyman," which is often atmospheric but mostly silly and boring.

Following a childhood run-in with the title character, magazine editor Tim (Barry Watson) is left with a crippling fear of closets and other dark storage spaces. He's a mess. At 23, he still stops in for treatment at the kid's ward of his neighborhood psychiatric hospital.

"Look around you," his doctor finally tells him. "There are only children here."

I fear that scene isn't nearly as moving as the writers intended, but it sets the tone because Tim spends most of the movie walking around his dark old house wigging out - in fact, a good 60 percent of the film's running time is devoted to scenes in which he approaches sinister-looking doors/staircases/barns really... really... really... slowly (just before the "SHREEENK!").

The rest of the movie involves Tim doubting his sanity and awkwardly courting his childhood sweetheart (Emily Deschanel, who isn't given much to do but still manages to be the best thing in the movie). Eventually, they battle the fabled Boogie Man, and I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure their conflict ends as the result of a complete lack of ideas.

This is one "Boogeyman" that won't keep many viewers awake. That task falls to the "SHREEENK!"
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48 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A Complete Waste of Time and Money, June 6, 2005
By Graboidz (Westminster, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boogeyman (Special Edition) (DVD)
You know what would have made "Boogeyman" scarier? Just about anything! Truly nothing happens in this movie after the first five minutes. The lead guy walks around teary-eyed and looking mysterious at half opened doors or ceiling tiles......and then.....nothing. Don't waste your time with this thing, if you want something that sets a pretty good eerie mood, get "Fear of the Dark" instead. It's shot on almost no budget, with no stars of any kind, but at least "Fear of the Dark" gives the viewer some kind of pay-off, and packs at least a minimal fright factor.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars TONS of missed potential......, June 27, 2005
By H. A Huffman "haumf" (Mt. Prospect, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boogeyman (Special Edition) (DVD)
Boogeyman could have been a very scary film except that the director and producer wanted that all-important PG13 rating. This is killing the horror movie as an art form; Boogeyman is a clear case of shocks traded in for an imaginary audience who likes bloodless horror movies (like "The Ring").

This movie sets up an interesting story, then does almost nothing with it. And the "surprise twist" in the film was a surprise only to the 5 year olds in the audience taken to this film by their baby-sitterless parents.

I miss the old "Hellraiser" days when horror films strived for an "R" rating and wore it as a badge of honor. I hope Hollywood will start making films like that again.
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2.0 out of 5 stars AMERICA'S CRITIC
NOT WORTHY!!! THE HYPE FOR THIS MOVIE AND THE GREATNESS OF IT WERE SO OFF,, SO MUCH HYPE FOR SUCH CRAP!! DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY FOR THIS!! Read more
Published 3 months ago by David R. Lingard

2.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good cure for insomnia
A young kid sees his father killed by the boogeyman. Years later he's in college and gets a message on his phone that his mother's health is failing. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Bud Bundy

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good
Not bad- I never thought of the "Boogeyman" in these terms, but it was entertaining. If you collect, you'll watch it again.
Published 10 months ago by Mimi P. Louiso

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst Horror Movie I've Ever Seen
I have never seen a horror movie lamer than this one. If you want to get scared than watch Freddy Vs Jason or It or something, but if you want to see a stupid horror movie that... Read more
Published 13 months ago by gamingfanatic

1.0 out of 5 stars Looney toon or boogeyman?
Did the retired cartoonists from Bugs Bunny and the Looney Toons have their hand in making this film? It is certainly a salient feature. Read more
Published 13 months ago by GangstaLawya

1.0 out of 5 stars One of the worst horror movies I've seen
I thought this movie was going to be good, but I don't see what was scary about it at all. It started out looking like it could be scary, but then it ended up being ridiculous. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Japhyl

4.0 out of 5 stars NOT BAD
Barry Watson did his part in this movie, we all know him from 7th heaven,
it could have had a better story line but i wouldnt consider this lousey.. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Sheila S. Welch

2.0 out of 5 stars Ultimately disappointing
I really wanted to like _Boogeyman_, I did, I have grown to love the PG-13 and R supernatural horror films, films that feature some supernatural entity as the villain, are set in... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Tim F. Martin

4.0 out of 5 stars I thought this movie was better than everyone thought it was
So far ive seen alot of bad reviews and a few good reviews for Boogeyman. I went out and got this movie not too long ago and i actually liked it alot. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Larry Abney

1.0 out of 5 stars Blinding Editing
Creepy at first...Then begins the Headace Induced editing...My vision was blured for two hours after seeing this movie...My Eye Balls were Slam Dunked...Bounced.. Read more
Published 21 months ago by D. Scott

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