Boogeyman (Special Edition)

Buy This Item Boogeyman (Special Edition)  List Price: $14.94  Available from Amazon  $9.49  on 12-7-2008     Features Actors: Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Tory Mussett, Andrew Glover (VI) Directors: Stephen T. Kay Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Language: English Subtitles: Chinese, English, French Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only) PLEASE NOTE: Some Region 1 DVDs may contain Regional Coding Enhancement (RCE). Some, but not all, of our international customers have had problems playing these enhanced discs on what are called "region-free" DVD players. For more information on RCE, click here. Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number of discs: 1 Rating: Studio: Sony Pictures DVD Release Date: May 31, 2005 Run Time: 89 minutes Average Customer Review:   224 Reviews 5 star:  (20) 4 star:  (28) 3 star:  (28) 2 star:  (57) 1 star:  (91) See all 224 customer reviews...   (224 customer reviews) Reader Reviews If there's one trend in horror movies that really needs to go away it's the Loud Sudden Noise, aka the "SHREEENK!" I mean that overamplified, more-annoying-than-scary racket that jumps from the speakers during a thriller whenever anything mildly startling happens. It usually sounds like a cello being sliced in two by a guillotine and it's a sure sign that a movie doesn't have any honest scares. You know the drill: The hero cautiously backs into a dark room and bumps into - SHREEENK! - a coat rack. The heroine closes a medicine cabinet and in the mirror - SHREEENK! - sees the ghost of her great-aunt. Few recent horror flicks have relied as heavily on the "SHREEENK!" as "Boogeyman," which is often atmospheric but mostly silly and boring. Following a childhood run-in with the title character, magazine editor Tim (Barry Watson) is left with a crippling fear of closets and other dark storage spaces. He's a mess. At 23, he still stops in for treatment at the kid's ward of his neighborhood psychiatric hospital. "Look around you," his doctor finally tells him. "There are only children here." I fear that scene isn't nearly as moving as the writers intended, but it sets the tone because Tim spends most of the movie walking around his dark old house wigging out - in fact, a good 60 percent of the film's running time is devoted to scenes in which he approaches sinister-looking doors/staircases/barns really... really... really... slowly (just before the "SHREEENK!"). The rest of the movie involves Tim doubting his sanity and awkwardly courting his childhood sweetheart (Emily Deschanel, who isn't given much to do but still manages to be the best thing in the movie). Eventually, they battle the fabled Boogie Man, and I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure their conflict ends as the result of a complete lack of ideas. This is one "Boogeyman" that won't keep many viewers awake. That task falls to the "SHREEENK!"  Comment | Permalink |  function showYesNoCommunityResponse(uId,result,value) { var msgLayer = getElement("thanks" + uId); if ( result == "SUCCESS" ) { msgLayer.innerHTML = "Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."; } else { showVoteErrorResponse(msgLayer,result,value); } } (Report this)

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