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	YMA Movie Review - Boogeyman
		The film's treatment of children's worst innate fears, that is, of the dark, dark closets and the dark space under the bed, make this film unsuitable for young children, who could be traumatised by it, leading to nightmares, bed wetting etc.
		Boogeyman is based on childhood fears of the dark, dark closets and the dark space under the bed.
		While this film is not recommended for children under the age of fifteen years, parents may wish to discuss with adolescents who do view the film any fears, or concerns they may have had when younger, or still maintain.
	www.youngmedia.org.au /mediachildren/07_04/07_04_165_boogeyman.htm (1471 words)

	Boogeyman (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boogeyman is a 2005 horror / thriller film, directed by Stephen T. Kay.
		The film is a take on the classic "boogeyman", or monster in the closet.
		However, a terrifying event that he witnessed as a child has left him traumatized, where his father was killed by the boogeyman that lived in his closet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boogeyman_(film) (279 words)

	A FromTheBalcony Review: Boogeyman (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Most people are familiar with the "boogeyman." He's the guy who's hiding under the bed, or in your closet, or the one responsible for the strange noises you hear in the night.
		The boogeyman is seemingly omnipresent and affects children across the globe.
		Boogeyman opens with a very well-done sequence that establishes the efficiency of the boogeyman.
	www.fromthebalcony.com /reviews/2005/05_boogeyman.htm (859 words)

	The Hindu : Entertainment Chennai / Film Review : "Boogeyman"
		THIS COLUMBIA Tristar Films presentation, produced by Ghost House Pictures and directed by Stephen Kay, is a psychological horror that fails to thrill.
		More than the boogeyman, it is the creaking door (how predictable can you get?), door handle on which the camera stays fixed (the hero keeps staring at it once too often) and the pounding score in the background that try to frighten you.
		Boogeyman or bogeyman tales for bedtime, often told by his dad, frighten eight-year old Tim out of his wits.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/fr/2005/04/01/stories/2005040102180203.htm (342 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Boogeyman
		This film will probably receive more flack from critics than anything else, because most critics judge horror films with the same standards as they would use to judge a drama or a comedy, and you cannot do that.
		A horror film is unique because it can have those same clichés and constants that all other horror films have, but still be wholly original and entirely terrifying.
		I cannot say that "Boogeyman" was as frightening as "The Grudge", because that film was on a whole different level of horror, but I can say that this was still a very tense picture, with some truly jump worthy scares and an intriguing plot.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/boogeyman.html (921 words)

	Boogeyman: Special Edition (2005)
		Yes, the movie eventually reveals whether or not the boogeyman was involved, but this doesn’t occur well into the film’s third act.
		The film degenerates into a loud fright-fest and suffers from some of the worst CG I’ve seen in years.
		I don’t think Boogeyman is good enough as either a movie or a DVD to push for a purchase, but it works well enough to earn a rental.
	www.dvdmg.com /boogeyman.shtml (1867 words)

	Boogeyman (2005)
		There he must confront and overcome his fear of the Boogeyman, who is still lurking in the closet after all of these years.
		The film amounts to little more than a guy walking around his old house for about 70 minutes, opening doors and treading on creaky floorboards.
		Final Verdict: Boogeyman is the single worst American horror to be cinematically released within the last 10 years.
	www.popcornpictures.co.uk /bfilms/boogeyman.shtml (333 words)

	The Film Asylum Review - Boogeyman (Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel)
		Watson is so central to the films focus that no other cast members really get the chance to flex their acting muscles but its worth noting that Lucy Lawless (Xena), thanks to some heavy latex makeup, has let herself slip a bit with a brief appearance as the evil granny from hell.
		The films epicentre is the suitably scary childhood home of our troubled Tim, now in the process of a much needed make-over, it is a character in its own right with typical haunted house creaky stairs, dark foreboding wood panelling, isolated location and a multitude of doors for creepy things to lurk behind.
		The film makers have made a clear effort to keep the tone of the film very dark and oppressive yet deliberately subdued in its representation of the horrors that Tim has to face.
	www.thefilmasylum.com /reviews/boogeyman/boogeyman.htm (588 words)

	JAKEOPOLIS.com - Movie Reviews, Editorials, And More From The Big Guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boogeyman is a standard horror film that pushes an interesting concept and delivers nothing but cheap thrills and a hollow storyline.
		Boogeyman is a half baked concept where the horror is lively and fun but the back story and reason behind the horror is stupid and downright moronic.
		The Boogeyman himself not having any sort of history past a name, is one of the problems that director Stephan T. Kay should have tackled but instead he was more concerned with simply giving an homage to his favorite horror films of the past five years.
	www.jakeopolis.com /jakereviews/boogeyman.html (930 words)

	Boogeyman movie review - AGGRESSIVE-VOICE.COM
		"Boogeyman" is supposed to be a movie about everyone's biggest fear growing up as a child: the dormant monster living in your closet that waits in the middle of the night for the right moment to snatch you from your bed.
		To make up for the nothingness, the film is coated in loud sound effects and is tossed up with flashbacks and jumps-cuts that have no logic.
		Tim doesn't want to flat-out tell her he believes that the Boogeyman is still lurking around after all these years, probably because he doesn't want to give off the "insane" impression.
	aggressive-voice.com /zzz196.html (1044 words)

	FANBOY PLANET.com .: mar-boogeyman :.
		Boogeyman is another one of those throwaway films that most avid filmgoers will rightfully dismiss, and horror fans will find to be too weak to really hold up as a frightfest.
		That is, until the film completely derails somewhere in the middle of the second act, at which time Director Stephen T. Kay seem to simply “let go” and let the film have some truly wicked fun.
		We open the film in the world's most potentially terrifying room ever, chock full of objects that seem to be placed strictly because of their ability to look eerie in the dark.
	www.fanboyplanet.com /movies/mar-boogeyman.php (778 words)

	Horror Movie Review \| Boogeyman (2005) Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel
		Unfortunately, the film loses its convictions before the end, and what could have been a fairly neat little thriller is ruined by the pointless and distasteful inclusion of a ludicrous and cheap-looking CGI monster, whose presence serves only to undermine all that has gone before.
		This is a film where very little actually happens beyond a few loud noises and some would-be ominous atmospherics, and there is very little attempt to generate any feelings of menace or threat.
		As a result, "Boogeyman" is unlikely to be enjoyed by anyone outside of its teen demographic, or anyone who has seen enough genre films to roll their eyes at the horror clichés which Kay relies upon so heavily.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/boogeyman.htm (801 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Boogeyman
		Some scenes show that the boogeyman is indeed a peeping tom as he watches a woman undress from a dark room in the bathroom.
		I love the title of this film, which is called "Boogeyman" because since we were all children at one point in our lives and we once believed in a boogeyman.
		The Boogeyman is sure to bring you back to when you where a kid and you thought he was in your bedroom with you.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=7081 (2409 words)

	n:zone Movies - Boogeyman DVD Review - Starring Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Lucy Lawless, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boogeyman stars Barry Watson as Tim, a young man whose father was taken by the boogeyman in his youth.
		The film follows the path of a psychological thriller for most of the film, not a slasher.
		Unfortunately the film takes a very odd turn at the end that is completely out of tone with the rest of the film and destroys an already flawed story.
	www.atnzone.com /moviezone/guides/dvd.php?movie=boogeyman (543 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Boogeyman Review
		A young boy literally has a boogeyman in his room, mainly in his closet, and at night he is terrified by its provocation.
		They were rip-snorting films that generally had their credible shit together as they served up outrageous plots that they managed to resolve by the closing credits.
		The Boogeyman is interesting, so it would have been fascinating to understand his genesis, whether its all in the kid's mind or really a horrific person, event, ghost or something in between.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_11/boogeyman.html (2667 words)

	DVD Times - Boogeyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boogeyman may feel like a different film in the context of current US horror norms, yet each of its constituent parts are wholly familiar.
		The film is presented anamorphically at a ratio of 1.78:1 and demonstrates no technical problems to speak of.
		Unsurprisingly, given the film’s atmosphere, this is a complex mix with notable use of the rear channels.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=57450 (1073 words)

	Boogeyman spooks to top box-office spot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At the seventh position on the chart, the film is heading for a solid $275 million gross in North America.
		For a film that cost about $16 million, Sideways is on its way to become one of the most profitable films of the past year.
		The film, with a mesmerising performance by Don Cheadle as the seemingly ordinary manager whose life slowly turns heroic, scored a decent $2.5 million and its income reached $11.4 million.
	www.rediff.com /movies/2005/feb/07usbo.htm (945 words)

	BOOGEYMAN
		The ploy worked-Boogeyman grossed almost $20 million its opening weekend-but the film itself is a bland affair with none of the imagination that distinguishes the best horror movies.
		When his mother dies, he returns to his childhood home to learn once and for all whether there really is a boogeyman or if he's just going crazy.
		The whole film is also marred by the quick cutting and speeded-up camerawork that are unfortunately becoming the hallmarks of PG-13-rated horror movies.
	www.filmjournal.com /filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000791037 (478 words)

	Film Review: Boogeyman
		Boogeyman has an unfortunate title, suggesting yet another ghost horror effects-greedy shockfest, such as Candyman.
		Twentysomething Tim (Barry Watson) goes back to the house where his father disappeared to see his mother who is ill. In fact, she dies before he gets there, but not before he has an instamatic daymare, in which she appears like an avenging demon.
		The film lacks closure, not because the sunlight flooding through the open window at the end is not warm and wholesome, but because there are bodies still to be buried and questions still to be answered and too many threads left hanging.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/b/boogeyman_2005.shtml (471 words)

	Lucy Lawless - Boogeyman - Cast Members Biographies
		Boogeyman was shot in New Zealand at exterior locations in and around Auckland and in studios in the western Waitakere City, where Raimi and Tapert’s hit syndicated television series Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys were shot from 1993 to2001.
		During filming, the boogeyman was played as a character by actor/dancer Andrew Glover, whose movements and look were later enhanced, twisted and embellished by Oktobor.
		Boogeyman also called for mechanical special effects, most spectacularly for the climactic scene of Tim’s showdown with the boogeyman, in which his bedroom is shaken with a force resembling a powerful earthquake.
	boogeyman.lucylawless.info /boogeyman-movie.php (3531 words)

	Boogeyman film review
		Boogeyman is your standard, by the numbers, scare-em up thriller which wouldn't know an original idea if it leapt out from a cupboard and screamed "boo!".
		Early on the film's central character Tim (Barry Watson) declares, "This is going to get ugly." Even by this premature stage there's enough evidence to prove him right.
		One of Boogeyman's failings is that it offers Watson very little to do other than fix a permanent look of worry to his face.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/boogeyman.html (669 words)

	DVD review of Boogeyman: Special Edition - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Before "Boogeyman," the Movie, I thought that so many kids worldwide were still afraid of what might be lurking in closets, basements and under beds (even without parents' mischievous prompting) that it would be impossible to make a bad film about these archetypal fears.
		There's not much in the way of character development, which is forgivable for a genre film, but there's also not much in the way of backstory or currentstory, which is all but a cardinal sin.
		Much of the film is shot in darkness, low light, or muted palette scenes, and a lesser quality film stock simply wouldn't have worked.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/boogeymanspecialedition/15739/2911 (1158 words)

	Boogeyman
		Boogeyman is arguably the most unoriginal film in years.
		Boogeyman is a testament to the view that, in horror, it's not what you see, it's what you don't see that's scarier as when we get to see the Boogeyman, the CG is so crap that it would be infinitely more chilling and realistic if Wile E. Coyote replaced the monster.
		The most infuriating thing about Boogeyman is that it is a complete cut-and-shut of other horror in that pretty much any scene that is anywhere near half decent is completely ripped off from other films to the point that it's almost insulting.
	www.angelfire.com /film2/filmview/boogeyman.html (413 words)

	Boogeyman (2005) - Ninth Symphony Films Review
		It would be far too simple and rather mean-spirited to ask why the creators of this film decided to choose a title where one letter could be changed to create a completely different (yet appropriate) meaning for the film.
		It is surely not the mark of an impressive film that one would find it entertaining to bandy about the title of a film whose title character is supposed to grab your attention and squeeze the living fear out of you.
		The audience is granted few real, juicy shots of the Boogeyman of title fame and with the weak screen presence of Barry Watson, it's a difficult task finding just which character one should focus his or her attention on for some emotional satisfaction.
	regencylady.tripod.com /site/filmreviews/boogeyman.html (883 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: BOOGEYMAN
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		The demonic looking boogeyman spots Kate and races up the stairs toward her, but Tim knocks her out of the way and into his bedroom just in time.
		After Tim tries to hit the boogeyman, he and Kate are thrashed about a room by supernatural forces and must then hold onto furniture to prevent being sucked into his bedroom closet (they become airborne as they hold on).
	www.screenit.com /movies/2005/boogeyman.html (2848 words)

	Film Review: Boogeyman by Brian Orndorf, Reader Weekly, Issue 305, February 10, 2005
		They shake their camera around, deluge the film with artistically bankrupt boo scares, edit like they are receiving a shiny gold coin for every cut, and stall endlessly to get their film to a sellable running time.
		“Boogeyman” takes home the distinction of being the first of the “PG-13ers” to be a completely incoherent exercise in style, without any attention paid to even the most basic of storytelling fundamentals.
		If “Boogeyman” signals more films like this to follow, there are far worse nightmares out there to come than whatever is lurking in your closet.
	www.readerweekly.us /issue/305/Brian_Orndorf-1.html (477 words)

	HELLRAISER: HELLWORLD; THE BOOGEYMAN (THE ORIGINAL 1980 VERSION)/RETURN OF THE BOOGEYMAN; THE FALLEN ONES - DVDs
		It's possible to admire films for their ambition and the frankness of the imprint of a director's tutelage, but Lommel is to Fassbinder as Lucio Fulci is to Michelangelo Antonioni; a hack with pretensions and a pedigree is a hack by any other name.
		The Boogeyman and Return of the Boogeyman dock on opposite sides of a flipper, with the former packed with a start-up trailer for The Cave.
		Return of the Boogeyman likewise opens with a trailer for The Cave and is, likewise, decorated with the same sub-menu gallery of trailers.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/dtvquartet.htm (2185 words)

	Boogeyman Movie - The Hollywood News
		In Boogeyman, Barry Watson plays Tim Jensen, a young man re-visited by a supernatural force that he claims burst from his closet and murdered his father when he was just a little boy.
		Boogeyman does have some surprisingly effective visuals, particularly towards the end of the film.
		Many of the scares in Boogeyman are of the cheap variety, and are very reminiscent of similar such jolts produced by the insipid Thirteen Ghosts.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/2118.php (664 words)

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