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"The Boogey Man" 1980-horror film happens to be a bit rubbish. To summarize the plot, two children, a boy and a girl, are mistreated (the boy more so) by their mother's new boyfriend, and the boy murders him with a knife. Twenty years on, the young man does not speak, and both he and his sister seem haunted by the event. On re- visiting the scene of the murder, the now-young woman sees the murdered man in the mirror and breaks it, apparently "setting him free" and allowing him, mediated by shards of the mirror, to commit murders. It's really not that spectacular: the stilted acting and a tacky 1980's soundtrack certainly don't improve things. Even on the most base level however - gore effects - the film is not phenomenal, and the status as likely stemmed from the fact that children were involved in so much of the goings on.Overall it was such a bad movie, starting from the blend acting, very cheap and cheesy plot already seen a thousand times in a horror industry, and "actors" were really stellar like they were doing some kind of cheap commercial. Just awful, that is the one word to describe this movie. I wonder who ever approved this to be shot... Anyway, it is what it is. If you love trashy kind of Italian horror style of cinematography then you will enjoy it, otherwise... it is not for everybody guaranteed!Overall rating: 4 out of 10.

The Boogeyman was one of many films which made the infamous video nasty list back in early 80's Britain. These were movies, available on the then new home video format, which were considered so obscene that they were thought to be a danger to society and subsequently banned by the British authorities. It has to be said, though, that this is one of the ones where it is very difficult understanding how it could have disturbed anyone to this extent. The fact it made this list merely indicates the insane lack of logic that went into the compilation of this often arbitrary list; whatever the case, its infamy as a video nasty is certainly one of the chief reasons people continue to seek it out today.It starts out with a prologue set twenty years in the past, where a couple of little kids kill their mother's abusive boyfriend. Fast forward to the present day and the trauma of this event still resonates, with the boy now a mute and the girl tormented by nightmares. It turns out that a mirror that literally reflected the earlier murder is now host to the malignant spirit of the evil lover and one thing leads to another and this mirror is smashed, unleashing the evil being who then proceeds to go on a killing spree.The influence of the earlier film Halloween (1978) is pretty evident in this one, with its opening prologue set 20 years in the past where a child murders an adult, its prominent synth score and even the title references the name that Michael Myers was often referred to in that earlier movie. It also follows a slasher template with a number of characters bumped off in a different gory manner. Yet the film is far from a pure rip-off of that movie in that it combines all this with an occult supernatural horror thing. The boogeyman of the title is never seen after all and is an invisible being, while the film ends with scenes very much of the type seen in many religious themed horror movies that were somewhat popular in the 70's especially. On the whole, while this is pretty ropey stuff a lot of the time, it does have a certain low budget charm and entertainment value about it. Its director Ulli Lommel obviously considered this to be one of his more successful outings and consequently made a couple of sequels both of with are typified by mainly recycling material found in this film over and over again; both of these films are truly terrible and should really be avoided at all costs. The original, while no classic, is the only one worth bothering with.

"The Boogeyman" is a 1980 horror film that focuses on Lacey and Willy, two siblings who grew up with a careless mother who let her boyfriend abuse them. One evening, after being hog-tied to his bed, Willy breaks free and stabs his mother's boyfriend to death with a kitchen knife, while Lacey watches the murder from the bedroom mirror's reflection. Twenty years later, Lacey lives in a desolate but beautiful farmhouse with her husband and son, and Willy, who has been mute ever since the childhood, whom lives with them and works as a handyman on the property. Both siblings are still haunted by the event, and when Lacey visits her childhood home in order to "face" her fears, she witnesses a horrific apparition in the same bedroom mirror, and shatters it in fear. Her husband takes the broken mirror back with them hoping to further Lacey's recovery, but wherever a piece of the mirror falls, a savage murder seems to occur; could the man's soul be trapped in the shattered glass?Before Ulli Lommel began his hopeless streak of directing cheap, all-around poorly constructed direct-to-video horror flicks in the late 1990s and 2000s (which I may say from experience are very, very horrible films), he scripted and directed this bizarre little feature in 1980. Not to say this film is a masterpiece by any means, but in comparison with Mr. Lommel's more recent work, this is quite a charmer. It heavily borrows elements from other horror successes of the time (the score is eerily similar to Carpenter's "Halloween" as are the point-of-view shots from our invisible villain, and the farmhouse is a dead-ringer for the infamous house in "The Amityville Horror"), but despite that, there are some creative things going on in this.The entire scenario involving the mirror, which is the crux of the plot, is actually really inventive; in other words, I've never seen any idea quite like it, so I appreciate the originality. On the flip side, many of the plot successions are clunky. Transitions are a little too spry and some of the most important events in the film are left completely unexplained - Why in god's name is there a ghost in the mirror? Is it in fact Willy and Lacey's mother's dead boyfriend? Why, at the end of the film, does Lacey become possessed, levitate, and have a piece of glass stuck to her eye, while all others who come in contact with the mirror are simply murdered by an invisible being? Why do they keep the shattered mirror up in their house in the first place? Many of these things are very loosely plotted, unexplained, and require a little interpretation for one's self - you sort of have to accept the faults in their glorious eccentricity.I do applaud some of the death scenes, though, because every good '80s slasher flick requires at least one or two memorable deaths. This one has a few, but most memorable are the scissor self-mutilation and the two teenagers who turn into a shish kabob of affection in their car. It's all rather cheesy, but this is what the vast majority of '80s slasher movies were about. Lommel's direction and camera-work is, well - a little bizarre. Attention to seemingly mundane details is given a lot of screen time, and the editing is odd in the sense that many sequences in the film will cut to another scene rather abruptly for no apparent reason. Then it will cut back just as abruptly. Not that this is entirely unusual for low-budget horror movies, but something about the way it's translated on screen in this film is just... weird. The acting is a mixed bag, but Suzanna Love is the highlight of the film as the leading lady; she plays the character well without overdoing anything. The rest of the cast is pretty typical by '80s horror standards, with a notable John Carradine hamming it up as a kooky psychologist.Overall, "The Boogeyman" is a peculiar little horror movie. There are some original ideas at work here, but it seems like there was a lack of development that left the film feeling clunky and a little bit off kilter. It's not a film that most people of today's generation will find any merit in, but for those who appreciate/enjoy the horror films of the 1980s, then this is an enjoyable watch. It makes for a weird but oddly amusing experience - emphasis on the odd. 6/10.

surprising because Ulli Lommel was involved in writing directing and producing this thing.i didn't realise Lommel was behind it until i got it home.by then figured what the hey.i mean how bad could it be,right.after all,i managed to see at least some of Lommel's other travesties,B.T.K and Black Dalia.those were putrid.The Boogeyman however,is not.it has interesting story,some decent performances,and some unusual music/sound effects.it is readily apparent a low budget production,but i could watch it all,without having to pause to vomit,so that's something.no classic by any means,but still...for me The Boogeyman is a 5/10