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Boogeyman [2005]
starring: Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Lucy Lawless
directed by: Stephen Kay

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 6 to 10 days Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050582347920
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Label: Universal Pictures UK
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Pictures UK
Region Code: 2
Release Date: July 04, 2005
Running Time: 85 minutes
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Sales Rank: 8439

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
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, who plays Tim, an editor at a newspaper. 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, wearing some truly terrible old-age makeup. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Dear oh dear, oh dear...
This has to be without doubt the WORST film I have ever seen, and I am not exaggerating. I feel so strongly about it I had to write a review. That said, I suppose it might be interting to see just how bad films can be. Though on second thought, it's not worth it...I would sooner eat poo than watch this again. :)

The special effects are laughable, as is the acting. There is no suspense whatsoever. I sat with my head in my hands for most of it, through sheer bordom. And don't get me started on the extras!

And the worst bit? A SEQUEL has been made!!

Rating:

- Hate this film!

I cant stand this film,
after the grudge was so good i decided to rent this
as it says, from the prodocers of the grudge!
Boy was that a waste of my time and money.
Terrible acting, low budget effects
no jumpy scenes whatsoever and very
litle deaths makes this film one of the
worst films in history.
Boogeyman, is a film
a five year old could watch!

Rating:

- Entertaining to a point
I saw this film after picking up the DVD in a bargain bucket from a local store. The opening sequence of the film is a tense experience which shows the film's hero - Tim as a kid, experiencing the usual night terrors involving a closet and darkness. However, when his reassuring father is actually snatched by something in the closet in front of his eyes, the poor lad then develops a very understandable terror of closets which continues into adulthood.
Years later Tim (well played by Barry Watson)returns to his family house, following the death of his mother, after having lived away for years, and has to confront the monster that is responsible for taking his father years ago.

Barry Watson makes Tim a sympathetic hero who has ... Read More:

Rating:

- AMUSING
Tim Jensen (Barry Watson) is deathly afraid of the boogeyman. After the boogeyman appears to take away his dad one night, he's sent to live with his uncle. Years later, after he's moved away, he must return home due to a family tragedy, and once again, it's time to face his childhood fears head on.

In many ways, Boogeyman exists solely as a sequence of build-ups to shock or scare scenes. While some people might argue that a large percentage of the horror genre is based on that, I would disagree (but there's not room to explain why here). Boogeyman at least makes its goals more obvious in its unusual and slightly repetitive extremes of pacing. That may sound a bit negative, but director Stephen T. Kay fairly well achieves what he set ... Read More:

Rating:

- Just didn't do it for me
Looked good. But i am sad to say that it wasn't. It was actually quite boring and not scary. Basically its a man that is scared all the time and when you actually see the boogeyman at the end you can't help but laugh at how non-scary he is.

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