German film director Ulli Lommel made his amazing art film The Boogeyman in 1980 for about $300,000, filming it only in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland. The film became a modest box office success, and Lommel developed clips in about half of the films he made at the time, so it’s clear that Lommel understood that The Boogeyman was his most popular film and had a personal love for it. Some have described it as a Halloween rip-off, which is pretty funny. While Boogeyman can indeed be described as a horror film with a supernatural angle — and Tim Krog’s score is slightly similar to John Carpenter’s immortal theme — it feels nothing like Halloween or The Exorcist for that matter (which it has. and was accused of stealing a). The Boogeyman was labeled as “Vide Nasty” in the UK on its pal release because of a scene featuring scissors stabbing a woman’s throat and rivers of blood, but it was released in England in 2000 without being cut entirely.
The Boogeyman begins around 1960 and introduces the audience to young siblings Lacey and Willy, who spy on their mother and her boyfriend (who has Mom’s pantyhose over his face) drinking and groping in Living room bed. Loving Mom punishes Willy by making him laugh and ties the poor kid to his bed, but later that night Lacey sneaks into Willy’s bedroom and cuts him free from the kitchen with a large butcher knife. Wanting revenge, he then silently and stealthily storms into his mother’s room, where Mom and her lover are having rough sex, and shoots the mother’s dirty neglected adulterer to death, as the woman cries “Will! Will! No way!”
Flash forward 20 years, and Lacey (Suzanna Love) and Willy (Nicolaus Love from Fatal Games and Middle Heart) are now adults and living on a farm with their he spoke. word comes from a violent tragedy that marked his childhood and spends his days handling chickens and doing chores around the farm. One day Lacey and Willy receive a letter from their natural mother (which they have not seen since the incident) pleading with for them to come and see her before she passed away from an unknown illness, possibly cirrhosis based on her former drinking habit. They decide to ignore the letter and move on with their lives, but childhood trauma Lacey and Willy are excited to share. He worships the minds, and torments the vivid dreams. Jake Lacey to psychiatrist Dr. He brings Warren (old-time horror John Carradine) to the appraiser, and during the session Lacey is “possessed” by the spirit of her mother’s lover from years gone by, speaking in a twisted voice beyond the grave and swearing. take revenge on himself and Willy.
Dr. Warren reluctantly suggests that Lacey return to her childhood home where the horrific events happened, and she reluctantly does so when Jake and meets the new family living in the house. But when the old mother enters the room and enters the singing wall Mirror – the same mirror that “witnessed”. “Years before the murder – she sees a dead lover, whose spirit is caught in the reflection of the mirror, with the bandage still stretched over his head and staring menacingly. She breaks the mirror with the nearest chair and unwisely “releases” the vindictive and invisible spirit from the furniture, which in a new family lives in the house and finds everyone else on the way to the village where Lacey and Willy now live. The only way to release the evil thing into its Tartar prison is to break the spikes of the mirror piece together, which is an easy task it cannot be.
The Boogeyman made about $4,500,000 during its theatrical release, multiplying the original investment to make it by about 15 and paving the way for two embarrassing sequels: Boogeyman II in 1983, the first half of which is composed mainly of clips from this original, and Reverence of the Boogeyman in 1994 which recycles about 75% of The Boogeyman and even the bath murder scene from Lommel’s 1982 film Brainwaves. While Part II has some hilarious and memorable moments, it’s clear that the sequel doesn’t match the original masterpiece. Try to imagine a film by Dario Argento and Ovidio Assonitis with elements of ghosts and demon possession in the mix, and you’ll have a pretty good idea It’s like the Boogeyman. It has a different art direction, many creepy atmospheres and some memorable time, bloody death scenes, and Suzanna Love (the director of Wife time, the heiress of DuPont, who has starred in and assisted in several of her husband’s films, including this one, Brainwaves, Olivia and The Devonsville Terror) makes Lacey the charming heroine. His real-life brother Nicholas Love is also excellent in his largely silent role as the traumatized mute Willy. John Carradine adds signs of professionalism in his brief role as Dr. Warren.
The Boogeyman is a surreal, supernatural horror/slasher/possession/ghost hybrid that should please horror fans looking for a little something general radar off I rate The Boogeyman an 8 out of 10.
