The problem is that Watson's performance is never interesting. It often seems as if he's not yet had his morning cup of coffee.
Boogeyman (2005)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:11
Rotten:74
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: The plot is been-there done-that generic, and none of the shock effects can do anything to build up suspense.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of horror and terror/violence, and some partial nudity
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Feb 4, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $46,363,118
Synopsis: Stephen T. Kay's stylish thriller, BOOGEYMAN, takes one of horror's mythical figures and transports him into the 21st century. Though Tim Jensen (Barry Watson) is a successful magazine editor with... Stephen T. Kay's stylish thriller, BOOGEYMAN, takes one of horror's mythical figures and transports him into the 21st century. Though Tim Jensen (Barry Watson) is a successful magazine editor with a beautiful girlfriend (Tory Mussett), his childhood continues to haunt him. When he was only eight years old, Tim watched his father get eaten by the Boogeyman, or at least that's how he remembers it. Of course, no one believed him then--not even his mother (Lucy Lawless), who has just recently passed away. Wracked with guilt for not having been there to say goodbye, Tim decides to spend the night in his childhood home and confront the Boogeyman once and for all. But before that happens, he reunites with his old friend Kate (Emily Deschanel) and meets a young girl (Skye McCole Bartusiak) who is holding onto a dark secret of her own. Kay and cinematographer Bobby Bukowski pack BOOGEYMAN with enough tension for several films, finding terror in every doorknob and around every corner. Watson and Deschanel deliver grounded performances even as the supernatural insanity swirls around them. The result is a work that relies more on shocks and thrills than actual blood and guts in order to frighten its audience. [More]
Starring: Lucy Lawless, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Barry Watson, Philip Gordon
Starring: Lucy Lawless, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Barry Watson, Philip Gordon, Emily Deschanel, Tory Mussett
Director: Stephen Kay
Director: Stephen Kay
Screenwriter: Eric Kripke, Stiles White, Juliet Snowden
Producer: Rob Tapert, Sam Raimi
Composer: Joseph LoDuca
Studio: Columbia Pictures
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Reviews for Boogeyman
A bland affair with none of the imagination that distinguishes the best horror movies.
A humourless trudge through haunted house cliches, it's unlikely to scare anyone old enough to get past the box office.
Boogeyman is that bull’s eye example which begins its immediate downfall once Barry Watson of “7th Heaven” misfortune appears on screen.
winningly combines the creaking ambiguities and psychological chills of They with terrain more familiar from a haunted house movie.
The not-too-frightening, plodding Boogeyman proves that major Hollywood studios like to dump all their stinkers at the beginning of the year.
Edited too spastically to be of any use....a slow-leaking tire which goes flat before we reach a destination.
Teenagers will probably have a blast with the cheap scares and simplistic story, but for horror veterans or those looking for something new, this is not the film to see.
Every jolt in this film involves crash editing and deafening noises, while nothing is made of the premise or the characters.
Watson goes from "7th Heaven" to "two hour hell" in this scary but senseless movie
Fright fans expecting anything more than the occasional jolt will be sorely disappointed.
They do a competent job of creating a spooky mood, unfortunately other than ambiance this film has nothing. The script is as empty as the closet.
There is nothing going on during these 86 minutes except a studio gunning for quick kill at the opening weekend box office.
One could look at this as an exercise in building dread, but the only problem is there's no sense of dread accompanying it.
Director Kay provides the trappings, but if you want horror, you'll need to bring your own.
Only glimpses of the monster are seen in Stephen Kay's supernatural thriller. Unfortunately, the same is true of the movie's plot and character.
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