I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Anyone expecting genuine horror from the producers of the EVIL DEAD trilogy – that is, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert – will be sorely tested by this stinker of a film which offers neither horror or chills in a mindless ramble through a bunch of horror film clichés, all done on a PG-13 rating. Yep, that's right, don't go expecting any gore whatsoever in this movie, or anything remotely horrific. Instead it's a dark and downright dull film, made by a nobody MTV director who has fun with all his camera shots but who can't direct his way out of a paper bag when all is said and done. The best bits of this movie have a real EVIL DEAD 2 feel to them – no surprise considering the producers – but the scares are less than half as good and the whole film has a "seen it all before" feel.Astonishingly, it takes over an hour before things get going in the movie, if you can call it that. Until then we get a talentless actor wandering through dingy corridors and having doors pop open in front of him; repetitive, yes, scary, no way. The look of the film is polished but it's so derivative and, in the end, empty, that I would prefer a hundred cheesy B-movies a la CROCODILE than sitting through this again.The cast is a bunch of nobodies, aside from Raimi throwing in his favourite actress, Lucy Lawless, playing the boy's mother in yet another blink-and-you'll-miss-it performance. The appearance of the 'boogeyman' at the film's climax is a hilarious example of how NOT to do CGI on a budget; this ghoulish spectre looks like something out of an '80s computer game, and its two dimensional appearance sadly doesn't cut the mustard in the modern world of effects-driven blockbusters. It would have been better to stick with a man in a rubbery suit. On that note, fans intrigued by the premise will no doubt have a lot more fun with the '80s Troma release, MONSTER IN THE CLOSET.

A young man (Barry Watson) tries to deal with the childhood terror that has affected his life.Is Emily Deschanel the poor man's Deschanel? In 2005, this might have been the case. Sister Zooey was already huge with films like "Elf". But soon, you know what? Emily would go on to do over 200 episodes as the lead character in "Bones". (Though her name is still probably not as well known, her success is not debatable.) This film seems to have terrible ratings... and yet they made some sequels? It's not actually a bad movie. If anything, maybe people were disappointed that we see so little of this "boogeyman" monster... but that should not be a strike against it. Rather than scare us outright, they worked on building the suspense. And that, to me, is the more challenging approach.

This is NOT a terrible movie! I'm going to start off with the worst part of this film. The Boogeyman is supposed to be an evil entity we hardly see, one who torments from afar, and is the subject of many a child-hood nightmare. Instead, he was a piece of garbage animation thrown into this film. I was very much disappointed in the fact that he was not an actor dressed to look the part. That was the biggest let down, and might I add, he was not a good animation either!! On to the good stuff. This movie had a good plot and better acting than I expected. I very much enjoyed Barry Watson's scenes with Franny the girl who had been abducted years ago. I agree with what other reviewers have been saying about those two being the evil defeating protagonists.All the deaths in this movie were kind of random and I didn't really feel bad when his father, girlfriend, and uncle were taken by the Boogeyman because we didn't get to see the torment, pain, and suffering that came from their abductions.Overall, this film had a lot of potential and blew it on the most important aspect, the villain himself!!

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