I spent most of the movie struggling not to throw something at the screen or disrupt the other patrons by screaming in frustration.
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
Frankly, watching dark closets for 90 minutes may not have been the best idea for a film. Watson unfortunately doesn’t have the screen presence to carry it off.
Boogeyman represents flat-out suckage. It is a haphazard assemblage of horror clichés, punctuated by the occasional so-loud-it-makes-you-jump noise on the soundtrack.
Is it over? Watson is asked. Yeah, it's over, he says, possibly aware that he's commenting on his acting career.
Even the should-have-been-triumphant revelation of the Boogeyman arrives as a CGI letdown of epic proportions.
A humourless trudge through haunted house cliches, it's unlikely to scare anyone old enough to get past the box office.
Because the movie never establishes its internal logic, the action can seem arbitrary and random.
Some fascinatingly original twists that play with time and space keep the tension ratcheting up till the ending.
O título brasileiro desta produção (O Pesadelo) sintetiza perfeitamente o que significa a experiência de ser obrigado a assisti-la.
It uses every canted angle and cartoonish zoom from Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead handbook, but the comatose screenplay just makes the stylish gymnastics look desperate.
A chill-free, suspense-deficient thriller that is not only an enormous waste of time and film stock, but also insanely empty and heavy-handed.
It's coherent, consistent and should prove popular with the kids its intended for.
Bereft of even the slightest hint of style, creativity or originality, Boogeyman is endlessly boring, blatantly nonsensical and, frankly, absolutely worthless.
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