Bogeyman

Bogeyman: I don't watch horror flicks, but Sunday (family day) I decided to indulge and show my grandkids I can be a trooper. This movie was totally dumb, to say the least. So many unanswered questions and was there supposed to be a plot. Who was the little girl? Who were the gaggle of strange kids? What happened to the girl in the tub? Why leave the house after you entered it from the hotel room, why not just go back through the closet you came out of? My goodness what in heavens name was this writer thinking of. Please sir put your pen and book away.

I'd describe Bogeyman as a totally wasted opportunity. Writing this review a few days after its screening, I'm finding it difficult to recollect why I hated it so much. Possibly because it's so mediocre, confusing and forgettable. In my opinion, directors like Clive barker were producing scarier movies with faithful storylines 20 years ago. So why's this rubbish, supposedly with Sam Raimi's stamp of production, insulting both our intelligence and wallets?

Bogeyman features a redundant, dragged out plot with loads of unoriginal borrowed ideas. Also, character development's extremely patchy and vague. About 3 quarters through the film, I was ready to tear my hair out- Just how much suspense can you milk from a central character wandering aimlessly through a creaky house !? That's essentially all the film was. Some idiot wanders around, has spasms in cupboards and pursues some self perpetuated fear which culminates in a typical `face your demon` scenario. The movies so drawn out that the dolby crafted jumpy-sequences actually work amidst the boredom. Mercifully, No cats leapt out this time but elements were still fairly predictable. The artsy, swooping camera didn't convey any mood, it was just extremely irritating & helps obscure what's essentially a bad movie.

Bogeyman also features some wooden acting (Keanu reeves style), feels really low budget or over produced high budget (take your pick). I felt conned, right down to the last 40 seconds of anticlimactic cgi chaos. Really not worth waiting for because it's questionable cgi anyway In fact, the most exciting part of this film is probably the intro, that's about it.

I found, I just couldn't care less about any of the films characters because there were too many needless distractions chucked in for scare measure. My main problem with this movie, though, is the way an uninspiring horror story's presented. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I can't even recall any movies where you're introduced to characters, fed vague info which doesn't contribute to the story & suddenly... that's it it's bizarre. It leads nowhere and feels like some waste of time on your part to even pay attention.

Unless I missed something, Bogeyman seems flakily improvised from start to finish without a storyboard or general direction. Absolutely detested it and I know the rest of the audience did. This one's going straight onto dvd market, marked at reduced.