Crazy story. One of my closest childhood friends is the kid from the missing poster who turns into a jump scare. We have never spoken of this movie. Ever.
here's what really pissed me off. by watching the movie, it appears that it really is the boogeyman. yet in plot synopsis and even in interviews with the filmmakers, they said that it IS in his head. that his father just took off and left and that was his way of dealing with it. the movie itself didn't make sense, and the filmmakers explanations just muddied the waters even worse
I actually like the idea of destroying a nightmare entity through destroying the objects that frightened the hero as a child! It's kind of interesting!
+Lulu Calliope Really? It seems kind of lame to me, I mean doesn't smashing your my little pony doll and lamp to get rid of a ghost kind of seem really silly when you say it out loud? (Especially considering how fucking fast he killed the dad, why not just kill this guy?)
+Lulu Calliope I really like the idea as well, but like a lot of things in the movie, I think it could have been done better, like...The fact that all of those things were intact, and in the same place, after 15 years is a little hard to believe. I think it would have made more sense if he was still a kid, or since they were playing with time nonsense anyways, he could have gone 15 years into the past to destroy the objects that created his fear of the boogie man.
+Christopher Jones perhaps if it was more metaphorical for him overcoming his phobias and recovering from the trauma of his father being killed rather than this supernatural child abductor.
I'll give the movie this, it's the best of its own trilogy. Low bar, I know, but... it's technically not nothing? The boogeyman having a form designed to evoke childhood fears was kind of interesting, although it would have been nice had such fears actually been frightening. And it's in some ways directly responsible for creating the sequels, which is a little scary... Yeah, I'm grasping. Still it's a bit fun to see Phelous make such a good case for having the Boogeyman not be real in this one, and then see him sigh at Boogeyman 2's attempt to do just that. Longstanding principle of mine: "there's no premise so terrible it can't be salvaged, and none so good it can't be ruined."
Luckily, I worked at a movie theater when this came out, and didn't pay money. I just loved how noone really talks about the fact that the guy's Dad was 'taken' by the Boogeyman. They all just go brain-dead and go, "...he left..."
the text at the end is something i wonder at the end of nearly every horror movie with a survivor and no corpse of a human killer. How the hell are they going to explain it was actually a demon/now MIA slasher/doll/internet ghost and not them who killed everybody and strategically placed their bodies to be found later
"Yup, sex - that really solves you being a bitch!" Phelous, you slay me. Also, that does seem to be a common solution to couples' fighting in horror movies...
Reminds me of i think it might have been Disney that made a movie where the boogeyman is real but instead of just being a monster it was forgotten imaginary friends that would turn into a boogeyman. Not really sure why it made me think of it lol but i believe it was called 'don't look under the bed' Oh Jude law did really well as pitch though too definitely beat out expectations.
I agree with you, the movie would have been better if it was all in his head. Or at least make the scares more subtle, like instead of having jumpscares everywhere and suddenly zooming in and out of things ridiculously, have a slow build-up and never actually show the Boogieman itself. The movie has some very creative ideas and nice, creepy scenes, but the sudden zooming in and out as well as the ridiculousness of the Boogeyman just ruined it.
Batter Sempai If they wanted to go the route of the Boogeyman being real, they should’ve written it like IT with the main characters being children who have to face the monster.
Fun fact: Eric Kripke made this movie, you guys may know him as the creator of Supernatural I think it’s really cool he went on to a much better project.
You can really tell that they were made by the same person: 1. Loved ones are killed by a supernatural entity that preys on children. 2. Girlfriend's name is Jessica. 3. Main character tries to move on and have a normal life but unfortunate news about a parent forces them to get involved again. 4. Supernatural monster makes main character watch as it kills his girlfriend after the main character gets back in the game.
I love these movies that end with everything apparently being all right and the supernatural villain defeated...except that people are dead and the survivors can't prove who really killed them, so they're going to be accused of murder and go to jail.
12:04 for some reason ''black pete'' is written on the wall, that's a dutch thing. it's a story told to children. similar to elves with santa they deliver presents. what the hell that has to do with anything s beyond me
The movie actualy looks pretty interesting. I can see someone who went true that kind of experiance anding up like this. And it feels like it is a combination of the supernatural bogyman(?) and his paranoia that he is battleing. What phelouspropossed would be better but this still looks good.
Is it just me or I've actually never found Boogeyman scary, not even as a kid, especially with a name like that... Every time that I hear that word being used seriously, I can't help myself but laugh
I remember seeing this a while back with my cousins. It wasn't too bad in my opinion. Though it definitely has some eye rolling bits its nowhere near as bad as some other stuff Phelous has had to sit through.
You know for being flashy annoying flashbacks unnecessary in movies for people with actual memory, I have to admit that those are really needed sometimes, in my experience I observed that stupid people with who I watched some good movies (that obviously don't use this unnecessary flashy flashbacks) can't follow some plot, and get lost in the understanding of what is going on, incredible but it really happens!
Nice to see the Boogeyman trilogy of reviews uploaded! After the Pulse reviews I love these! I cannot bileave I used to be scared of this movie but to be fair the website was VERY convincing but nowadays it's just hilarious.
I guess he was the first person to utilize an open concept bathroom. Also, the opening part with the chair in the middle of the room with a human like shape on it, the little boy, and the closet seems familiar somehow...I feel like I saw something like it in another movie.
That yelling at people only works if: A: it’s the middle of the day and you know they’re home. B: You already rung them up and are arriving. C: You’re in the house yelling across it while they’re there. Or D: A stupid movie cliche where people do actually hide. Again, if they handled it differently, smashing objects would have worked as how like IT, it’s destruction of the trauma and not actually just toys
+KingNazaru well then they shouldn't have hinted that the killer was the main character by having him have those moments of seeming insanity. I'm not saying you're wrong and that the killer SHOULDN'T have been supernatural, I'm saying they should have gone all the way with one idea or the other.
Something something Matt Camden. Scariest thing about this film is the browser game. Seriously, that game used to terrify the shit out of me and my friends. It was listed under the "NB! Adult content" section of our go-to gaming site, 1001spill (1001games), so of course we had to check it out. It was actually this kinda shitty point-and-click game where you had to choose between two doors. Pick the right door and you'll go free, pick the wrong door and there he'll be. I think there was more to it, but we never got past the door section (there were more than one). I dunno, it had creepy music, an eerie atmosphere and we were young and inexperienced.
So, about normal room objects that look scary in the dark: i have this tower fan, and i put some stuff on it while i was sorting out my room. I had a plague doctor's mask and a witches hat on there, and since there are 2 lights on the fan when it's on, it looked like some horror creature with glowing eyes when I woke up at night after not thinking about taking the stuff off the fan. Terrifying but hilarious. If only i had put more halloween props next to it, like the scythe...
"Yeah, f*ck that horse, I hope it has fun running away!" "Well, considering how well you cured his closet phobia, I'm not sure how much stock I'd put in any of your suggestions, lady!" "THE BOOGEYMAN!.................Don't look at me like that!" Why can't MY closet be the TARDIS?!?! Man, I remember seeing the ads for this when it was new and thinking 'Hey, Barry Watson..." due to watching 7th Heaven reruns every day. But it didn't have ALL of the Camdens in it, so I wasn't about to run out and see it:):)
I always conflated this with the Michael Keaton horror movie "White Noise" and the tooth fairy spooktacular "Darkness Falls." I've seen all 3 and can't really remember the details of any of them. Also the boogeyman looks like the vampire monsters from the awful "I Am Legend" movie...this thing's even worse than I remember.
He was scared of closets before, so now will he be scared of bedsheets? He's going to be sleeping on a mattress with no sheets on the floor in a house with no doors or walls if this keeps up.
Eh...the "it's all in your head" angle has been done enough that I don't think it would have helped this movie all that much....I still think that if they ditched the HORRIBLE CG effects, and maybe got a better handle on how the teleporting closets work...it would have gone a long way in making this movie better....
*Xena has a husband* now?! I thought she was lesbian. 😆💦 At least her appearance made the movie a bit better for the sake of having something to laugh at. I do feel strong nostalgia whenever I see her though
I couldn't muster up any fear for this movie when I watched it as a child, so I thought that maybe the themes were just too complex for me to hand at the time. I guess not.
Crazy story. One of my closest childhood friends is the kid from the missing poster who turns into a jump scare. We have never spoken of this movie. Ever.
here's what really pissed me off. by watching the movie, it appears that it really is the boogeyman. yet in plot synopsis and even in interviews with the filmmakers, they said that it IS in his head. that his father just took off and left and that was his way of dealing with it. the movie itself didn't make sense, and the filmmakers explanations just muddied the waters even worse
I actually like the idea of destroying a nightmare entity through destroying the objects that frightened the hero as a child! It's kind of interesting!
+Lulu Calliope Really? It seems kind of lame to me, I mean doesn't smashing your my little pony doll and lamp to get rid of a ghost kind of seem really silly when you say it out loud? (Especially considering how fucking fast he killed the dad, why not just kill this guy?)
+Lulu Calliope I really like the idea as well, but like a lot of things in the movie, I think it could have been done better, like...The fact that all of those things were intact, and in the same place, after 15 years is a little hard to believe.
I think it would have made more sense if he was still a kid, or since they were playing with time nonsense anyways, he could have gone 15 years into the past to destroy the objects that created his fear of the boogie man.
+Lulu Calliope While not fear-based, South Park did it better.
+Christopher Jones perhaps if it was more metaphorical for him overcoming his phobias and recovering from the trauma of his father being killed rather than this supernatural child abductor.
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I'll give the movie this, it's the best of its own trilogy. Low bar, I know, but... it's technically not nothing? The boogeyman having a form designed to evoke childhood fears was kind of interesting, although it would have been nice had such fears actually been frightening. And it's in some ways directly responsible for creating the sequels, which is a little scary... Yeah, I'm grasping. Still it's a bit fun to see Phelous make such a good case for having the Boogeyman not be real in this one, and then see him sigh at Boogeyman 2's attempt to do just that. Longstanding principle of mine: "there's no premise so terrible it can't be salvaged, and none so good it can't be ruined."
Luckily, I worked at a movie theater when this came out, and didn't pay money.
I just loved how noone really talks about the fact that the guy's Dad was 'taken' by the Boogeyman. They all just go brain-dead and go, "...he left..."
The father must've been an @$$
Yeah, nobody called the police when he just disappeared without taking any of his stuff with him...
the text at the end is something i wonder at the end of nearly every horror movie with a survivor and no corpse of a human killer. How the hell are they going to explain it was actually a demon/now MIA slasher/doll/internet ghost and not them who killed everybody and strategically placed their bodies to be found later
Everytime you said face him I heard Eli Roth in the back of my head going: OH FACE!
Great... it's there now in my mind and it will never leave.
+muzicrox ooh faced!
@@usalasierra scratch moded!!
"You win this round, closet" is absolute brilliance :D
"Yup, sex - that really solves you being a bitch!"
Phelous, you slay me.
Also, that does seem to be a common solution to couples' fighting in horror movies...
Might as well be a cliche
When DreamWorks Animation made a movie featuring the Boogeyman, he was called Pitch to make him more intimidating. And it worked.
Kimi FW Rise of the Guardians was a good movie. Jude Law made a good Pitch Black/Boogeyman.
I remember that
And his army of night mares
Yeah, naming him after the villain in Mexican Santa Claus was actually a step up from this movie
Reminds me of i think it might have been Disney that made a movie where the boogeyman is real but instead of just being a monster it was forgotten imaginary friends that would turn into a boogeyman.
Not really sure why it made me think of it lol but i believe it was called 'don't look under the bed'
Oh Jude law did really well as pitch though too definitely beat out expectations.
I agree with you, the movie would have been better if it was all in his head. Or at least make the scares more subtle, like instead of having jumpscares everywhere and suddenly zooming in and out of things ridiculously, have a slow build-up and never actually show the Boogieman itself. The movie has some very creative ideas and nice, creepy scenes, but the sudden zooming in and out as well as the ridiculousness of the Boogeyman just ruined it.
Batter Sempai If they wanted to go the route of the Boogeyman being real, they should’ve written it like IT with the main characters being children who have to face the monster.
Phelous' fake after credits text cracked me up. :D Also, stupid surprised Soundwave, what are you doing in the closet!
...is that Bones? Holy crap, Bones, what're you doing in this?! Get back to the Smithsonian!
Jeffersonian.
And it was Mr. Nigel Murray not Bones
There's a post credits scene where it's revealed that the boogeyman's alive.
Fun fact: Eric Kripke made this movie, you guys may know him as the creator of Supernatural
I think it’s really cool he went on to a much better project.
You can really tell that they were made by the same person:
1. Loved ones are killed by a supernatural entity that preys on children.
2. Girlfriend's name is Jessica.
3. Main character tries to move on and have a normal life but unfortunate news about a parent forces them to get involved again.
4. Supernatural monster makes main character watch as it kills his girlfriend after the main character gets back in the game.
This movie actually did scare me as a kid especially the opening scene. And seeing now as an adult... it still kind of scares me.
Lol, the Pepsi bit cracked me up
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Honestly, the Boogie man from the Real Ghostbusters was more threatening than this bogeyman.
+LittleBlueTrain67 Man you hit the nail on the head there. He was actually scary in the Real Ghostbusters.
+LittleBlueTrain67 Not a high bar, sadly. Oogie Boogie from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" was more threatening than this guy
You know I didn't think about Oogie till you mentioned it.
Oh man! I'm so excited you uploaded your Boogeyman series - these are some of my favorites that you've done!
I love these movies that end with everything apparently being all right and the supernatural villain defeated...except that people are dead and the survivors can't prove who really killed them, so they're going to be accused of murder and go to jail.
I know, right? Just once, I wish we could see the aftermath of such a movie...
@@SwiftNimblefoot Nah, that would go against Americans' well-known aversion to consequences.
12:04 for some reason ''black pete'' is written on the wall, that's a dutch thing. it's a story told to children. similar to elves with santa they deliver presents. what the hell that has to do with anything s beyond me
I thought it was referring to another one of the names used by Mickey Mouse's archenemy.
reminds me of Korean Tron with "African-Descended John"
1:41 He's afraid of closets? What is he, Eli Roth? Ooh, *FACED!*
Scratch Moded!
The movie actualy looks pretty interesting. I can see someone who went true that kind of experiance anding up like this. And it feels like it is a combination of the supernatural bogyman(?) and his paranoia that he is battleing. What phelouspropossed would be better but this still looks good.
Usually in horror movies breaking in and yelling hey works
Is it just me or I've actually never found Boogeyman scary, not even as a kid, especially with a name like that...
Every time that I hear that word being used seriously, I can't help myself but laugh
Drinking Pepsi when they were trying to desperately promote Coca cola was genius
Like in birdemic 2 where they had a pepsi ,achine full of coke cans
So the Bogeyman is really the Breaker from 13 Ghosts? Interesting.
I remember seeing this a while back with my cousins. It wasn't too bad in my opinion. Though it definitely has some eye rolling bits its nowhere near as bad as some other stuff Phelous has had to sit through.
16:57 I never meta joke I didn't like. Ooh, *FACED?*
Okay, that Pepsi joke was savage!
You know for being flashy annoying flashbacks unnecessary in movies for people with actual memory, I have to admit that those are really needed sometimes, in my experience I observed that stupid people with who I watched some good movies (that obviously don't use this unnecessary flashy flashbacks) can't follow some plot, and get lost in the understanding of what is going on, incredible but it really happens!
I LOLed when Tim has the vision about her mother's ghost (who is still alive) approaching and finger-wagging him. :D
Nice to see the Boogeyman trilogy of reviews uploaded! After the Pulse reviews I love these!
I cannot bileave I used to be scared of this movie but to be fair the website was VERY convincing but nowadays it's just hilarious.
That bit where you smashed soundwave almost gave me a heart attack
I guess he was the first person to utilize an open concept bathroom. Also, the opening part with the chair in the middle of the room with a human like shape on it, the little boy, and the closet seems familiar somehow...I feel like I saw something like it in another movie.
+Kaiser Yuuki I think that might have been the opening for Cujo
I love Allison coming in for Xena jokes.
Why is Jessica so mean? It's like she's a better antagonist than the boogieguy. :T
That yelling at people only works if:
A: it’s the middle of the day and you know they’re home.
B: You already rung them up and are arriving.
C: You’re in the house yelling across it while they’re there.
Or D: A stupid movie cliche where people do actually hide.
Again, if they handled it differently, smashing objects would have worked as how like IT, it’s destruction of the trauma and not actually just toys
I personally liked this movie, but I do think it needed stronger writing on behalf of showing trauma for the MC, as well as less pointless jumpscares
Actually Phelous I'm glad the antagonist was supernatural , making it a psychopath would've been too mundane and I hate that .
+KingNazaru well then they shouldn't have hinted that the killer was the main character by having him have those moments of seeming insanity. I'm not saying you're wrong and that the killer SHOULDN'T have been supernatural, I'm saying they should have gone all the way with one idea or the other.
How did Tim get a girlfriend? If a person I was dating brought me to an appartment with no doors I would RUN
So Matt from 7th Heaven and Bones knew each other as kids.
Been waiting for you to upload these reviews :)
I'm sorry, but the missing ghost kids scene made me had this thought, "My Gawd, it's the Smurf children of the corn!"
IS THAT THE HOUSE FROM SUPERNATURAL?
YOU'RE RIGHT!
XD
I wonder which parts were his....
Is the Zombie Fisherman thing a reference to something?
It's a reference to Phelous' review of I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer.
I like Phelous's ending better. XD
Thought the same thing at the end of the movie. Dude's going to prison or an insane asylum. Kind of reminds me of Steven King's "Dark Half".
Here's a question. How do you pull it off as a supernatural horror and not a psychological one?
Wouldn't it be great if him facing his "demon in the closet" was just a metaphor for him coming to terms with his homosexuality?
Something something Matt Camden.
Scariest thing about this film is the browser game. Seriously, that game used to terrify the shit out of me and my friends. It was listed under the "NB! Adult content" section of our go-to gaming site, 1001spill (1001games), so of course we had to check it out. It was actually this kinda shitty point-and-click game where you had to choose between two doors. Pick the right door and you'll go free, pick the wrong door and there he'll be. I think there was more to it, but we never got past the door section (there were more than one). I dunno, it had creepy music, an eerie atmosphere and we were young and inexperienced.
2:12 Tim certainly doesn't entertain me! Ooh, *FACED!*
I bet if someone ever reboots the boogeyman it will be better than this
My mind hurts from Tim teleporting through closets and shit.
so, basically what you're saying is this movie would've been absolutely fixed if it was Pitch Black instead of A ZOMBIE FISHERMAN (?!)
I loved your credits
He must have got his little girl sense from his 7th heaven dad
when he threw the crow off his car you should have cut to the dead bird pile from triangle lol
Oh Look it’s Matt from 7th Heaven!!
Before the boogyman goes to sleep he checks his closet for Chuck Norris
Joshua Vickery But who does Chuck Norris check his closet for?
Chuck Norris never checks his closet, because he dislikes people that come out of the closet.
@@geoffreysorkin5774 Giggety.
"Yup. Tim's crazy." Best part.
Xena, xena xena xena, xenaaaa...
So, about normal room objects that look scary in the dark: i have this tower fan, and i put some stuff on it while i was sorting out my room. I had a plague doctor's mask and a witches hat on there, and since there are 2 lights on the fan when it's on, it looked like some horror creature with glowing eyes when I woke up at night after not thinking about taking the stuff off the fan. Terrifying but hilarious. If only i had put more halloween props next to it, like the scythe...
We did that have movie Phelous, it was called secret window starring Johnny Depp
this movie was really good, the best of the 3.
the part with the little girl actually is relevant it's a setup for bogeyman 2
Why can't there ever be cool characters named Tim, Timmy, or Timothy?
The enchanter from Monty Python's Holy Grail is named Tim (at least some call him that) and he's pretty cool. Is it good enough ?
The part with the birds was from Birdemic! LOL
ya know, I remember liking this movie when I was younger.
I agree, stupid cgi boogieman! my butt could produce a more real looking boogieman lol...
That's Bones.
Use a curtain for the bathroom when company comes over
"Yeah, f*ck that horse, I hope it has fun running away!"
"Well, considering how well you cured his closet phobia, I'm not sure how much stock I'd put in any of your suggestions, lady!"
"THE BOOGEYMAN!.................Don't look at me like that!"
Why can't MY closet be the TARDIS?!?!
Man, I remember seeing the ads for this when it was new and thinking 'Hey, Barry Watson..." due to watching 7th Heaven reruns every day. But it didn't have ALL of the Camdens in it, so I wasn't about to run out and see it:):)
Another great video, Phelan.
Oh, well, at least they tried!
5:17 Was that Crow sound effect added in by Phelous or the movie itself?
I actually really liked this movie, I know, weird.
I liked this movie... My favorite part is when they mess up the chronological event during the chase scene.
I always conflated this with the Michael Keaton horror movie "White Noise" and the tooth fairy spooktacular "Darkness Falls." I've seen all 3 and can't really remember the details of any of them. Also the boogeyman looks like the vampire monsters from the awful "I Am Legend" movie...this thing's even worse than I remember.
Did anyone else notice that Kate is Bones?
+Dylan Dang Nope, sure didn't
Yep and I was thinking the same thing when I saw Lucy Lawless oh honey you can do so much better than this.
He was scared of closets before, so now will he be scared of bedsheets? He's going to be sleeping on a mattress with no sheets on the floor in a house with no doors or walls if this keeps up.
This movie wouldn't have sucked if it was simply Bones & Xena vs. The Boogeyman.
6:40 -ish...
is that.... Bones? You know... from `Bones'?
...
you guys remember Bones right? ... Right??
[Insert Tsjurping Cricket Noises]
Eh...the "it's all in your head" angle has been done enough that I don't think it would have helped this movie all that much....I still think that if they ditched the HORRIBLE CG effects, and maybe got a better handle on how the teleporting closets work...it would have gone a long way in making this movie better....
Ben would’ve made more tolerable. This just scream “The Haunting” remake *shudder*
*Xena has a husband* now?! I thought she was lesbian. 😆💦 At least her appearance made the movie a bit better for the sake of having something to laugh at. I do feel strong nostalgia whenever I see her though
The Dad looks like al Pacino...
Biggest missed opportunity of both this movie and this review. Is that it didn't use Henry Hall's Here comes the Boogeyman song.
I couldn't muster up any fear for this movie when I watched it as a child, so I thought that maybe the themes were just too complex for me to hand at the time. I guess not.
Wow wtf I didn't know that was Lucy. Good make-up
TARDIS Closets!
Tim? Hey, Tim? Well, it looks like I was expected. Heeeeeeeeee!
To be fair, some of the editing (when it isn't dated) is pretty cool sometimes.
Wonder if Phelan knows about the new Boogeyman movie.
The Bye Bye man is a rip-off of this movie.
are you gonna do a review for RESIDENT EVIL 4 REMAKE PHELAN?
I wish this movie had Jude law
Breaking your stuff defeats the boogeyman and monsters that so stupid also the boogeyman looks like a dementor with out his hood on
I did NOT HIT HER, I DID NAAAAAT))
tbh if we didnt get this we wouldnt have gotten supernatural
I wacht it a long time ago
Does The Boogeyman eats live worms and carries a clock around his neck in this version?