The Boogeyman is a 2005 horror film starring Barry Watson from the television show 7th Heaven and Emily Deschanel from the television show Bones. Barry plays Tim, a magazine editor with a heavy fear of the dark after witnessing his father get “taken” by something called The Bogeyman as a child. Tim refers to the entity as The Bogeyman based off a story his father told him. When Tim’s mother passes away, Tim returns home to the house where his father disappeared to confront his old fears, as encouraged by his childhood psychologists who he visits before going. Upon arriving, Tim reconnects with his childhood friend, Kate. However, this is after disappearing from Thanksgiving at his girlfriend Jessica’s house due to the unexpected death of his mother. Jessica later shows up, and its still unclear if she survives or not and no one seems concerned about it, including her boyfriend.
Tim begins seeing visions of missing children, and starts trying to confront his past. He connects with teenager Franny who has experienced The Boogeyman as well. However, Tim eventually uncovers that Franny is one of the dead missing children taken by The Boogeyman, and after seeing visions of her father fighting the monster off, Tim realizes what he must do to get rid of the thing.
Interestingly enough, the script was written by Eric Kripke, the creator of Supernatural. The movie felt like Supernatural without the lore, as if there wasn’t enough time to go into The Boogeyman’s backstory. The film relies on atmosphere and jump scares, but the story is missing too much for those to be done well. The whole film feels like it doesn’t have any direction, and the story is too disjointed as if it were taken from something else and smooshed into something resembling a movie. Overall, I would give the film a 2.5, and that’s mainly because I like the work of the people involved when they’re doing other things.
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