1/5 Worst Horror Movie I've Ever Seen
  by CENA ROCKS!!! (Queens NY)
I have never seen a horror movie lamer than this one. If you want to get scared than watch Freddy Vs Jason or It or something, but if you want to see a stupid horror movie that isn't even scary, then by all means, watch this one. The only part I liked was the beginning, because it was actually kind of scary when the Boogeyman ate his father, but the rest is crap and not worth watching. Don't buy or watch it, just ignore it completely.

1/5 Looney toon or boogeyman?
  by GangstaLawya (TimBuckToo)
Did the retired cartoonists from Bugs Bunny and the Looney Toons have their hand in making this film? It is certainly a salient feature. For example, in the beginning of the show, the kid's father is hurled up and down the parameters of the closet space with such force and animation similar to the old cartoons. It is more comical than terrifying. And the ghoul, whose motives are left unstated, seems merely to be a mischievious character reminiscent of bugs bunny or daffy duck, or, better yet, woody the wood pecker of Mel Blanc lore. Except, instead of the humor resuting from that head banging lunacy of Melanerpes formicivorus, we have the same mischief combined with unadulterated malcontent. The acting seems to involve lots of young people with pensive faces trying to imitate how young people talk and act. The theater does have as its goal the imitation of real life, but not verbatim. Improvization and poetic liberty seem to be a foreign concept to many of these young actors. The plot? There wasn't any. No punch line. The producers apparently thought that putting a kid in a haunted house of his youth, embellishing the spook with special effects, and adding a minor subplot of his social life would make for great movie making. It fails miserably. Why this immaterial being is able to bring about physical effects, and why, in the end, he is finally subject to being hit over the head with a common table lamp, begs the question.

1/5 One of the worst horror movies I've seen
  by Japhyl
I thought this movie was going to be good, but I don't see what was scary about it at all. It started out looking like it could be scary, but then it ended up being ridiculous. It didn't seem very believable to me that an adult man would still be afraid of the same things as when he was a child. The movie was very boring to me. There were too many scenes where nothing significant was happening. I only finished watching it because I thought it would be worth it to finally see the boogeyman later on in the movie, but I was even more diappointed when I saw it. The monster's CGI was too terrible for it to even be scary. The ending also wasn't very good and left too many unanswered questions. I would only recommend this movie to someone who likes one of the actors or actresses in it. If you want a good horror movie that's worth watching, this isn't it. Some better horror movies are "The Ring" or "The Sixth Sense."

4/5 NOT BAD
  by Sheila S. Welch (Davie,FL,USA)
Barry Watson did his part in this movie, we all know him from 7th heaven,
it could have had a better story line but i wouldnt consider this lousey..some sences were pretty good acually, Im a fan of Barry Watson soo ima give this 4 stars..you could watch this more than once for sure..

2/5 Ultimately disappointing
  by 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.