Boogeyman (Special Edition) | 
| Director: Stephen T. Kay
Actors: Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Lucy Lawless, Skye Mccole Bartusiak, Tory Mussett
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  226 reviews
Sales Rank: 20506
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D01269D
ISBN: 1404935223
UPC: 043396012691
EAN: 9781404935228
ASIN: B00080ZG24
Theatrical Release Date: February 4, 2005
Release Date: May 31, 2005
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Since movies began, thrillers have depended on a door just slightly ajar, with a narrow slit of darkness that promises to hold your worst fears. In the first five minutes of Boogeyman, a young boy's father is violently sucked into a closet, scarring the boy so badly that he grows up to be blank-faced Barry Watson (7th Heaven), who plays Tim, an editor at a newspaper or a magazine or something. Tim, to impress his girlfriend's parents, wears a coat and tie but doesn't shave his sexy stubble. A premonition of his mother's death drives him back to his childhood home so he can exorcise his phobias. From there...well, there's lots of atmospheric cinematography, regular jolts of loud music, and many quick edits. What actually happens is pretty obscure and, really, not worth unobscuring. The obsession with doors and doorknobs verges on the avant-garde. Also featuring a brief glimpse of Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess), wearing some truly terrible old-age makeup. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
A YOUNG MAN IS TRAUMATIZED BY MEMORIES OF TERRIBLE EVENTS IN HIS CHILDHOOD BEDROOM. YEARS LATER HE RETURNS HOME TO FACE HIS FEARS.
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 Ultimately disappointing March 16, 2009
Tim F. Martin (Madison, AL United States)
I really wanted to like _Boogeyman_, I did, I have grown to love the PG-13 and R supernatural horror films, films that feature some supernatural entity as the villain, are set in the modern day, real world with real people, have a suitably creepy atmosphere enhanced by great mood music, excellent cinematography, maybe a little humor, and have little if any gore, just good thrills and mood, movies like _The Ring_, and _The Grudge_.
Alas, I was to be disappointed with _Boogeyman_.
It wasn't awful, don't get me wrong, at no point did I want to stop watching it, I just feel disappointed.
Ok, the basic premise. It opened pretty strongly, a young boy, the main character as a child, is having a hard time falling asleep one night. He sees in the half-light of his room everything as being sinister...the clothes crumpled together in chair, an action figure on his nightstand, they are all monsters, revealed as mundane objects when the boy switches the light on, but then something else becomes a monster. Soon enough though a real monster makes its presence known. The commotion that that causes soon summons the boy's father to the room, who with amusement and love confidently sets about to debunk his youngster's fears. Unfortunately there really is an (unglimpsed) monster in the room, one that sucks his father through the closet, never to be seen again.
We fast forward to the future, where the main character, Tim, played by Barry Watson, is an editor (for a magazine?). He apparently had a rough child hood and is still seeing a psychologist for his fears (the same one it turns out since he was a little boy). He is afraid of dark places and closets, and I liked how when we go to his apartment it is all white, light, no dark paneling, no dark corners, all the doors from all the cabinets have been removed. He has a very attractive and apparently quite understanding girlfriend and seems to have a good life, far, far from home.
Unfortunately events call him back to home with the funeral of his mother. The house he grew up in, the one his father vanished in, is his. He (foolishly!) decides to spend the night in it, visited a few times by his childhood friend Kate (played by Emily Deschanel, who was interesting to see playing a character so obviously unlike Bones in the TV show _Bones_).
That's about as good as it gets. Interesting premise, good cast, some good mood and atmosphere...but that's it. They went to the well one too many times with the whole being scared of something that turns out to be just a coat hanger or door or what not, its silhouette in the dark taking on a threatening appearance. However, that to me wasn't really one of the Big Problems with the movie.
First of all, some spoilers ahead, it becomes clear that you can only be hurt by the monster if you believe in him. No, wait, correct that. He won't hurt you, just your friends and family. What? They don't believe in him, they might not have even heard of him or know much about your belief (or be completely uninformed) but they can be hurt while you can't be more than just scared silly once in a while? And at what point does the monster come after someone? Why these people in his life at this time? Was it because the monster, this boogeyman, was fresh in his mind, or that he was close to or in that house? Why not before?
Second, the monster can travel through closets from place to place. That's cool, that's fine, its been done but is not a bad plot device for a creature of this kind. Not a problem. Well, it seems when following the monster or its victims, Tim travels through space as well, going in a closet in one part of the world and ending up somewhere else. How is this possible? That is never explained. Would have been neat to show maybe some extradimensonal space that he entered perhaps, or that Tim had acquired powers by his connection with the creature, something, but it is never explained.
Third, there is a whole subplot with the ghosts of children that were victims that I won't get into, but it didn't make much sense and I don't think ever got any adequate payoff or closure. I will say if those kids were victims of the monster, than why didn't Tim as a child join them? It was his father that the monster took, not him.
Fourth, the final fate of some of the victims was unclear, I won't go into that either, too much spoiler age, but it is never made clear at all where they went and what happened to them.
Finally, fifth, the monster, when finally shown at the end, was rendered with absolutely awful CGI. Just terrible.
I would say skip this one. If want to be some sort of completist maybe, or if you really like Emily Deschanel, but otherwise I say give this a pass.
 I thought this movie was better than everyone thought it was December 17, 2008
Larry Abney
So far ive seen alot of bad reviews and a few good reviews for Boogeyman. I went out and got this movie not too long ago and i actually liked it alot. It had alot of parts during the movie where it would make me jump from the closet slaming n all. I really liked the actual Boogeyman at the end of the movie. The special effects were not the best, but i still think they were good and it made a good looking boogeyman to me. The story was good. I liked this one better than the 2nd Boogeyman because the Boogeyman was actually real in this one. He was quick and had some "throwing around" of the actors at the final confrontation of the Boogeyman. I think this movie deserved alot better than what it got. Its one of my fav. horror/suspense movies so far because of a good bad guy and an alright story. The end was okay, but overall i think the story and the actual Boogeyman were pretty good. I enjoyed watching this and i hope they know they did a good job making it.
 Blinding Editing December 12, 2008
D. Scott (CO USA)
Creepy at first...Then begins the Headace Induced editing...My vision was blured for two hours after seeing this movie...My Eye Balls were Slam Dunked...Bounced..Spun Around...Back Handed..and visually assulted by the fast shifting editing...I hung in there waiting for the pay off, but even the end only a few minutes long was BAD..BAD..comic like C.G.I...and even that was sped up and even more Eye Damadging...and they lived happily ever after, the end... Warning Do Not watch this movie on a Big Screen TV, or risk visual inpairment! I wont even get into the Audio assult you will also indure...where is my Visine? ..and asparin?
Boogeyman November 16, 2008
Mazsi (Hungary)
The movie has nothing to do with the 2. part....
Its not bad...but the 2.part is much better.
Anyway if you like scary movies go ahead and by it:))))))
Just not workable as a horror movie or suspense movie! November 10, 2008
Allen Bowers (Dover, De United States)
I just saw this movie the other day thinking that it was going to be a remake of the The Boogeyman from 1980!! Well to my chagrin not only was it not a remake of that brilliant 80's classic but it also just didn't deliver the goods like it did either!! This movie was not horrible by any means,but it was very wanting in the scares and victims department. I mean what could they have possibly been thinking anybody would have found the least bit interesting about a horror movie where nothing much happens throughout the majority of it? To say nothing of the fact that there's neither any nudity nor much in the way of victims being killed by The so-called Boogeyman at all. So what do we have left then? Well let's see Barry Watson trying to deal with a childhood trauma while going from place to place with his homely and uninteresting not to mention pushy girlfriend. YAY!! LOL!! And the rest of the time he's either running into this really cute little girl named Franny or riding around with sexy "Bones" star Emily Deschanel. And the rest of the time he's alone walking around his old house AIMLESSLY!!! When his incredibly lame girlfriend gets seized by the Boogeyman for some reason we neither see her later on nor find out exactly what happened to her. For what it's worth I was seriously hoping for a sex/nude scene between Barry Watson and Emily Deschanel, but greatly to my chagrin it never happened. Needless to say with how dull the rest of the movie proved to be that just might have kept me from dozing off as I would've done had the movie been longer. Also for what it's worth the movie didn't need any of that corny zooming closely at the furniture and the doors and stuff. 'Cmon was that B.S. really necessary?! And when we finally come to his face-off against the Boogeyman, all we see is Barry and Emily being sucked towards the closet, only for him to need to just simply break a creepy doll and a plasma ball and then kick The Boogeyman in the head. And then all Barry does is look out the window. The only reason to even watch this borefest is just to see the impressive/precocious actress who played Franny!! She was excellent!!
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