You think this is bad? Check out Mr. Boogedy. Still haunts me to this day.

What about Bride of Boogedy, which is the essence of fear?

*shudder*

5:18-Its "Angry Birds" the motion picture! :D


Love the title card Phelous, Monsters Inc is one of my favorite Pixar movies and it just makes me laugh thinking what it would be like if the movie was a cross between Monsters Inc and Boogeyman.


Probably alot better than this that is for sure. Keep up the good work Phelous!

I haven't actually seen Monsters Inc myself, that was crazy ol Andrew Dickman's idea.
(What was he doing there?)

Crazy ol Andrew, he's always good for a laugh...

You should see Monsters Inc; it's one of my favorite Pixars as well!

OMG I Loved that movie as a kid. Never saw the original though. Hell, at 7 years old I was ready to sell my soul for a magic cloak too. LOL

Boogedy...boogedy... BOO!

If The Boogeyman stole the guy's girlfriend from the tub, than that means she must have been bathing so logically....I think we have another catagory to Rule 34 on our hands here people. LMAO!

@ Jackass Mask: Sweet Chinchilla Jesus, I thought I was the only one who remembered there even WAS a Mr. Boogedy!

Pilgrim-esque statues still freak me out.

The introduction and overall movie feel like a wholesale rip off of Darkness Falls (Which is itself an awful movie)

Opens with his parent dying because after going into his closet and saying there was no boogeyman (Darkness Falls, the mother dies after going into his room and claiming there's no tooth fairy).

His apartment in the early scenes is nearly identical to the apartment form Darkness Falls, massive number of lights included. His fear of always checking closets and under beds mirrored of Darkness Falls always checking for lights and batteries.

From the title, I hoped this would be for Ulli Lommel's Boogeyman, a far worse movie than this.

Not to mention the sequel, which is a metafilm in which Ulli shoots a sequel to Boogeyman but is stalked by a creepy waiter as flashbacks too Boogeyman play for no apparent reason!

I have no clue, but I was half expecting the boogy man to look really REALLY stupid. No clue why

Awwwwww. No KC & The Sunshine Band. =(

I remember watching this movie when I was seven. It was my first horror movie, so I didn't know what to expect. After watching it, I was so jaded to horror that nothing ever scared me.

It's a mess, Phelan. A plot-hole filled, random, boring mess.

Oh man, I hated this movie.

The only time the Boogeyman has ever actually been scary was in The Real Ghostbusters. To hell with this bad CGI zombie fisherman. The cartoon monster with the huge head, bat ears, long nose, goat legs and mullet voiced by the guy who voiced Megatron, now THAT was the fucking Boogeyman!

You just gave me flashbacks! o_O

Poor whats his face from 7th Heaven didn't really have much of a career. :P

Great video Phelous! :D

"I don't want to go!" said Fanny.

The Tenth Doctor final sentence, as well the tardis' noises.

You're not going to give that up, are you?

I don't mind it because I keep on laughing, every time you used it.

I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. OOPS DID IT AGAIN!
The fact the closet teleported him through time and space made it too easy.

Yeah, it's too tempting to not use the Tardis noises when the closets have the convoluted aspect of time traveling in a movie about the Boogeyman, who is well-known for...travelling through time.

Why would the Boogeyman time-travel to begin with? Jump out of Madame Pompadour's fireplace?

Well it's just another case of a promising horror movie with one of the most basic terrors of folklore imaginable thoroughly botched.

Great review Phelous.

I have only one request: Please review Jeepers Creepers 1 & 2.

You could make a lot of Justin Long jokes. Peace.

could he just put a curtain over the door way?

You forgot Bones references since Emily Deschanel is in this.

Anyways, what a bad movie. Looked like a cheap "Are You Afraid of the Dark" rip-off meant for morons above 18. But the Xena references are cool though.

Seriously, Sam Raimi?

I haven't seen Bones so besides calling her Bones that's about all I would have done.

Did Lupa have a voice cameo?

Yay for Phelous defeating Transformer!Boogeyman

No, some weird Allison Pregler person did.

"The OED cites uses of the meta- prefix as "beyond, about" (such as meta-economics and meta-philosophy) going back to 1917. However, these formations are directly parallel to the original "metaphysics" and "metaphysical", that is, as a prefix to general nouns (fields of study) or adjectives. Going by the OED citations, it began to be used with specific nouns in connection with mathematical logic sometime before 1929. (In 1920 David Hilbert proposed a research project in what was called "metamathematics.")

A notable early citation is Quine's 1937 use of the word "metatheorem",[4] where meta- clearly has the modern meaning of "an X about X". (Note that earlier uses of "meta-economics" and even "metaphysics" do not have this doubled conceptual structure, they are about or beyond X but they do not themselves constitute an X).

Douglas Hofstadter, in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach (and in the sequel, Metamagical Themas), popularized this meaning of the term. This book, which deals extensively with self-reference and touches on Quine and his work, was influential in many computer-related subcultures, and is probably largely responsible for the popularity of the prefix, for its use as a solo term, and for the many recent coinages which use it. Hofstadter uses meta as a stand-alone word, both as an adjective and as a directional preposition ("going meta", a term he coins for the old rhetorical trick of taking a debate or analysis to another level of abstraction, as when somebody says "This debate isn't going anywhere"). This book is also probably responsible for the direct association of "meta" with self-reference, as opposed to just abstraction. The sentence "This sentence contains thirty-six letters," and the sentence it is embedded in, are examples of "metasentences" that reference themselves in this way."

I'm pretty sure that "recursive" or "self-reflexive" are the more appropriate terms for self-reference, and "meta" is best defined as "X about X," so a "metasentence" would just be a sentence about sentences.

True dat yo.

Good review, but I'm surprised you didn't make any 7th Heaven jokes like you made Xena jokes. Other then that it kept me entertained.

I probably didn't cause I haven't watched 7th Heaven. That's my running theory on why I didn't anyway.

That's pretty far-fetched.

This movie seemed like a rip off of that one episode of The Real Ghost Busters.

Oh god, I've seen this movie. It stuck in my head because it seemed to me like they had the scripts of seven unfinished horror movies and just glued them all together.

You really should do the sequel, Phelous, it's great. It has absolutely nothing to do with this movie and takes place in an insane asylum full of teenage stereotypes, and three identical blondes who you cannot tell apart, one of which is supposed to be one of the doctors and one of which is supposed to be bulimic but is just as skinny as the other two. It's amazing in its retardation.

The part where Tim had to smash his toys to kill the bogeyman was obviously symbolic of him confronting his fears. It looks like the real problem was that they didn't know if they wanted to make a supernatural horror movie, or a psychological horror movie. So they ended up with a schizophrenic, A.D.D riddled story that breaks down once you analyze it.

Yeah, I watched that movie on DVD a long time ago... I wasn't impressed either. The ending left me disappointed, because it was silly, and it was just another "Smash stuff up so Evil Dies" type of ending. They tried that with the Grudge, with a little twist.

I didn't know the mother was Xena though. I didn't pay that much attention to her face either, it was a pointless cameo and a pointless scene... Her putting her fingers in his face and all, especially.

Soundwave makes a much cooler Boogeyman anyway.

the sequel your talkin about wouldn't happen to be that one with the dude from saw in it as a pyschiatrist who diagnoses someone with "boogeyphobia" would it?

Ha...Boogeyphobia sounds more like a fear of dancing than a fear of the boogeyman.

And wow, his girlfriend's like Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading, except the Coen brothers intentionally made her unsympathetic, whereas I don't think these folks knew they were doing that.

Yeah, you're right, it would have been better if he was just crazy. Ah well.

Great review, holmes!

So this is a good review and all, but I'm constantly being distracted by the fact that Bones is in this.

I know right? She sounded so weird when not talking like Bones does.

So the sequel has another Xena actress and another 7th Heaven actor?

Bit of an odd coincidence...I smell a conspiracy afoot.

FIRST! I mean, uh LAST! I DARE someone to post after me! Ooh, Faced It!

Apparently Bones and 7th Heaven references should've been in this review. Don't feel bad for missing them though, I haven't watched those shows either. :V

Counter-Faced!

...that's all I got. :(

A ZOMBIE FISHER(boogey)MAN!?!?!?

Lupa does a great job in this video.

9:11- Same here, buddy.

I also have that Soundwave figure, but it's actually the 2007 Toys R Us reissue figure with Ravage and Laserbeak. BTW, I really love "Dark of the Moon."

Hmm... Well, at least it was better than DRAG ME TO HELL!

What about that game Boogerman?

I'd like to have seen a reference to the former WWE wrestler Boogeyman...in many ways he was scarier than the crap CGI they used in the film.

So did the stuff in the guy's room create the evil Time Lord ghost, or what?

9:15 a NOT SEE cola? sorry, I just saw the Snob's video that came out the same day.

Really, everyone in this thread should search youtube for Ghostbusters Boogieman.

The only reason that didn't traumatize me as a child is the lack of actual doors on my closets. I will never get that face out of my mind though...that face....

Nice review. I love the way you review movies and can't wait to see your next review.