Wonderful character development!

Let's be realistic.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Sadly I do recall seeing this film in the 1980s after *trying* to re-watch recently. I forgot all about see this film back then, now I recall it. The only reason I *tried* watching it was for John Carradine - I like him. The film is terrible, stupid but Carradine is good as always.Nothing to see here but some cheap, cheesy murders - if you like that sort of thing thing this film might be up your alley! I'm not into that so this film did nothing for me.Why give this film 2 stars? Number one reason: John Carradine, number two reason it held my interest a little bit in the beginning but after the first half hour I really lost all interest - it started out fine and kept going down hill from there. The idea behind the film could be fine but needed some major work on the script to make this mess work well.2/10

The Boogeyman was one of many films which made the infamous video nasty list back in early 80's Britain. These were movies, available on the then new home video format, which were considered so obscene that they were thought to be a danger to society and subsequently banned by the British authorities. It has to be said, though, that this is one of the ones where it is very difficult understanding how it could have disturbed anyone to this extent. The fact it made this list merely indicates the insane lack of logic that went into the compilation of this often arbitrary list; whatever the case, its infamy as a video nasty is certainly one of the chief reasons people continue to seek it out today.It starts out with a prologue set twenty years in the past, where a couple of little kids kill their mother's abusive boyfriend. Fast forward to the present day and the trauma of this event still resonates, with the boy now a mute and the girl tormented by nightmares. It turns out that a mirror that literally reflected the earlier murder is now host to the malignant spirit of the evil lover and one thing leads to another and this mirror is smashed, unleashing the evil being who then proceeds to go on a killing spree.The influence of the earlier film Halloween (1978) is pretty evident in this one, with its opening prologue set 20 years in the past where a child murders an adult, its prominent synth score and even the title references the name that Michael Myers was often referred to in that earlier movie. It also follows a slasher template with a number of characters bumped off in a different gory manner. Yet the film is far from a pure rip-off of that movie in that it combines all this with an occult supernatural horror thing. The boogeyman of the title is never seen after all and is an invisible being, while the film ends with scenes very much of the type seen in many religious themed horror movies that were somewhat popular in the 70's especially. On the whole, while this is pretty ropey stuff a lot of the time, it does have a certain low budget charm and entertainment value about it. Its director Ulli Lommel obviously considered this to be one of his more successful outings and consequently made a couple of sequels both of with are typified by mainly recycling material found in this film over and over again; both of these films are truly terrible and should really be avoided at all costs. The original, while no classic, is the only one worth bothering with.

I had been waiting a long time for this one. It had been told to me that it was one of the better horror films of the early 80's. Yeah...I don't think so.First thing you notice is the budget...or...the lack there of. This one wasn't even a "B" budget. Ah and those special effects. I mean no special effects. They musta paid the actors with coupons from the local Safeway. The sad part is that they blatantly rip off 2 good horror films and kinda rip off 1 excellent one. The opening credits eerily sound like a re-worked "Halloween" score. The farm house later in the film has a very similar look to the Amityville Horror one. Those 1/4 windows and all. Towards the end you see she kinda starts to act like the girl in The Exorcist.I guess the only good thing to come out of this was Suzanna Love. She did a pretty good job with what she had to work with.If this one is one your "to see" list and your on your death bed and this one is on your mind that you shoulda saw, trust me, you didn't miss a thing.

Well I was always interested in seeing the original Boogeyman and I finally had my chance cause it was on demand. Well I have to say is it's like a combo of Halloween, The Exorcist, and Final Destination. And I didn't really get who the killer was supposed to be. Was it supposed to be the spirit of the guy who wore that weird mask thingy in the beginning that got stabbed by the little kid? What was the deal? And I kinda felt bad for the kid when he grew up cause he never talked ever since. But he finally talks at the end. And I was highly let down that this movie is called Boogeyman and they never even mention the name 'Boogeyman' and I don't know who the Boogeyman is ever supposed to be! They don't even talk about the Boogeyman! I was let down by that. Over all, this was a okay movie. It was very weird! It had some kinda creepy moments. It's one of those not bad but not great movies.