Please don't spend money on this.

Absolutely Fantastic

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

This movie is the biggest pile of sh**that I have ever seen. Its probably the only "grown a**man afraid of closets" movie, and I'm grateful for that. What probably sounded good on paper comes off terribly as a movie. All the actors seem like they rather be doing ANYTHING else. If you like movies where a man lives in a house with absolutely no doors and features shots of people VERY slowly reaching their hand towards a doorknob and then VERY slowly opening it, this is the movie for you. Oh yeah, and the "bogeyman"? A VERY poorly made CGI creation that will have you laughing instead of screaming.

I've seen the second Bogeyman; it is an interesting premise – take the fears of a little girl and then have them haunt her as she gets older. Not like any movie hasn't explored the concept of personal demons before, right? Anyway, Bogeyman continues in this tradition, and it follows much half of the feel of the second movie – boring, dull, drama. The main character must face his past in the form of the bogeyman; but rather than actually seeing it, he only sees the telltale signs. As much as an unseen force can be spooky, without actually seeing the creature in question, the rest of the movie falls apart.The main hero decides to face his personal demons and starts to track down the source of it all; strange things continue to haunt him of course, and it goes so far as to the point he hallucinates or is made to look like he is hallucinating to everyone else. I lost track of the last parts of the movie because of how dull it was – I nearly fell asleep several times. If that says anything, I do not recommend this movie. I would rank it as one of the worst movies I have ever seen.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=5212).

Boring, lame, under written spook show attempting to exploit childhood fears of possible monsters in our closets and under our beds. It begins with a child afraid of his closet for good reason: whatever's in there grabs a hold of his dad and drags him off to oblivion. Now he's a morose 23 year old with a sexy girlfriend who receives word that his mom (played by Xena herself, Lucy Lawless) has passed away, so it's time to revisit the childhood home and face those childhood fears, with the help of a little kid (Skye McCole Bartusiak). Some horror films can be average and routine but still be basically watchable. This one is so lifeless, with appropriately drab performances, that it falls back on the overuse of jump scares (no matter if some of them do indeed work) to try to get the audience to be afraid. The muddled plot prevents us from ever learning very much, and director Stephen Kay fails to give us enough reason to get involved with these characters and this story. He and his crew work overtime to build up atmosphere, and don't do too bad a job in that department. Sometimes there's an interesting moment, such as when our leading character Tim (Barry Watson) enters a closet in one location and exits a closet in another location. But this doesn't make up for a movie where our antagonistic entity fails to inspire any real terror, and the sometimes frenetic modern horror film style of assaulting us with "horrific" imagery and the fast and furious cutting gets annoying quickly. The plethora of digital effects only serves to distance ourselves from the story, and none of it is terribly imaginative. Worst of all, all of this leads up to an infuriating "What? That's it?" type of ending. The actors take all of this EXTREMELY seriously, which doesn't help; if only there'd been some better attempts at humour, it would have broken up the tedium some. Watson is not an engaging lead, and Bartusiak, Emily Deschanel, and Tory Mussett don't fare too well either. An unmemorable dud from Sam Raimi's and Rob Tapert's production company. Four out of 10.

Boogeyman begins at night time with a little boy in bed afraid of things in the dark, which most kids are. His father comes in and to humour him, checks around the room to make sure "the boogeyman" isn't in there. However, when the man enters the closet he is pulled in by something and the door is slammed shut. Flash forward fifteen years, and the little boy Tim is now an adult (played by Barry Watson) with a pretty normal life, but still with his fear of the boogeyman after seeing what happened to his father. Despite him seeing his father pulled into the closet by something, everyone's been trying to convince him over the years that he imagined the whole thing and that his father left him and his mother one night. Anyways, After finding out that his mother died, Tim decides to spend a night in his old family house where the incident years ago took place. It isn't long before Tim starts to see things happening around the creepy old house. He witnesses doors creak open by themselves, things in the dark that aren't really there, and himself as a little boy roaming around the place. He then has visions of all the children that the boogeyman has supposedly taken over the years. The boogeyman is quickly shown to be an actual supernatural being with the ability to hurt people. He kills Tim's girlfriend and uncle before attacking him and Kate (a childhood friend of Tim's). Eventually Tim realizes that to kill the boogeyman, he has to face him. He does that sending the boogeyman into the closet which has turned into some whirlwind vortex or something. I don't know...The boogeyman had promise and I was really looking forward to seeing it when it came out in 2005. However, the plot is too all over the place and has some really big holes missing from the story. If the boogeyman was just a supernatural "thing" that affected only Tim and his childhood, how was it able to murder his girlfriend and uncle? And then there are the scenes in which Tim goes through a closet door at a motel and end up back at his old house, sort of like a portal. It's just too all over the place at times. Acting isn't bad, it's pretty much all Barry Watson as we see his character confront his fears. Oh and the ending is pathetic. Won't get into it, but it's just so rushed and a little cheesy.If they had just stuck to a more simple plan when creating Boogeyman, it could have been a frightening horror film. They took it to a high level of fantasy and supernaturalism that just made the whole movie lack in the horror/scary department. And that is what the boogeyman is supposed to be; scary. It has its cool moments, but overall isn't what it could and should have been.5/10