OK, it is officially time to chill out with the
horror movies and especially the PG-13
ones. These things are pretty bad, a dime
a dozen, and giving a good genre a bad
name. The latest offender, the trashy
Boogeyman, isn’t nearly as bad as
Alone in the Dark, but it’s
horrendous all the same. This is
essentially a decent 10-minute movie
stretched out to 90. The whole
Boogeyman mystique would seem to be
decent fodder for a feature film, but this
one doesn’t know what to do after its
rather scary beginning where a little boy’s
papa is snatched into the closet by the
title character. The kid, Tim, grows up to
be Barry Watson, the pretty boy from
7th Heaven with negligible acting
abilities. The screenplay has the
Boogeyman targeting Watson for reasons
unexplained, and director Stephen T. Kay
does his best to draw out the action with
lots of pretty camera movements and
slo-mo. Kay has a decent sense of style
with his filmmaking, but this film is the
very definition of over stylized.