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Movie Overview
Cast
• Lucy Lawless
• Skye McCole Bartusiak
• Barry Watson
Director
• Stephen Kay
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - intense sequences of horror and terror/violence, and some partial nudity
Boogeyman (2005)

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OFCS Rating: 8% Rotten
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"winningly combines the creaking ambiguities and psychological chills of They with terrain more familiar from a haunted house movie."  Movie Gazette  Anton Bitel

C-
"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."  FromTheBalcony  Bill Clark

D-
"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."  FilmJerk.com  Brian Orndorf

3/10
"Few films benefited that much from being so short."  Draxblog Movie Reviews  Dragan Antulov

1/4
"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."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

D
"A thriller that is so generic it can only be dispensed if your doctor checked the 'generic OK' box on the prescription."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

1.5/4
"...expose the skeletons in Boogeyman’s closet—you will certainly come across the bare bones because there’s no real meat to this thrill-seeking thud"  Movie Eye  Frank Ochieng

C-
"An incoherent grab-bag of disconnected shock effects--stylishly mounted but ultimately empty and pointless."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

"When the theater lights come up, this Boogeyman is nothing but a bad memory."  Light Views  John Larsen

2/5
"full review in Greek"  Movies for the Masses  Joseph Proimakis

2/5
"I spent most of the movie struggling not to throw something at the screen or disrupt the other patrons by screaming in frustration."  3BlackChicks Review  Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

3.5/4.0
"Boogeyman manages to make you do what films like Jeepers Creepers and Darkness Falls wouldn't let you do: believe."  MovieCrypt.com  Kevin A. Ranson

2/5
"They didn’t even rip off the classics, for crying out loud!"  7M Pictures  Kevin Carr

1/5
"If you can't spell 'bogeyman,' you shouldn't make movies about him."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

1.5/4
"One could look at this as an exercise in building dread, but the only problem is there's no sense of dread accompanying it."  Mark Reviews Movies  Mark Dujsik

1/4
"There is nothing going on during these 86 minutes except a studio gunning for quick kill at the opening weekend box office."  Mr. Brown's Movies  Michael Dequina

0.5/4
"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."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

1/4
"Instead of heightening one’s fear of closets, it simply creates an overwhelming urge to head straight for the nearest theater door. "  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

1/5
"Spends the majority of its running time jerking the audience’s chain before coming to an abrupt ending."  Film Threat  Pete Vonder Haar

1.5/5
"Every jolt in this film involves crash editing and deafening noises, while nothing is made of the premise or the characters."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

1/5
"A thinly plotted clothesline of shock effects."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

1/5
"Boogeyman is that bull’s eye example which begins its immediate downfall once Barry Watson of “7th Heaven” misfortune appears on screen."  Film Threat  Rory L. Aronsky

1/5
"Bereft of even the slightest hint of style, creativity or originality, Boogeyman is endlessly boring, blatantly nonsensical and, frankly, absolutely worthless."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

1/4
"The only thing scary about Boogeyman is the sheer ineptitude of the 'filmmaking' on display."  Reel.com  Timothy Knight

2/4
"The celluloid equivalent of Jokey Smurf."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

D
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OFCS Rating: 8% Rotten
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