| | | From The Producers Of The Grudge
Features: DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Alternate Endings, Animatrics, Deleted Scenes, Featurette, English, French and Chinese Subtitled
Every culture has one - the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years earlier. Is the Boogeyman real? Or did Tim make him up to explain why his father abandoned his family? The answer lies hidden behind every dark corner and half-opened closet of his childhood home - a place he must return to and face the chilling unanswered question does the Boogeyman really exist?
Editor's Note
Stephen T. Kay's stylish thriller, BOOGEYMAN, takes one of horror's mythical figures and transports him into the 21st century. Though Tim Jensen (Barry Watson) is a successful magazine editor with a beautiful girlfriend (Tory Mussett), his childhood continues to haunt him. When he was only eight years old, Tim watched his father get eaten by the Boogeyman, or at least that's how he remembers it. Of course, no one believed him then--not even his mother (Lucy Lawless), who has just recently passed away. Wracked with guilt for not having been there to say goodbye, Tim decides to spend the night in his childhood home and confront the Boogeyman once and for all. But before that happens, he reunites with his old friend Kate (Emily Deschanel) and meets a young girl (Skye McCole Bartusiak) who is holding onto a dark secret of her own.Kay and cinematographer Bobby Bukowski pack BOOGEYMAN with enough tension for several films, finding terror in every doorknob and around every corner. Watson and Deschanel deliver grounded performances even as the supernatural insanity swirls around them. The result is a work that relies more on shocks and thrills than actual blood and guts in order to frighten its audience.
| Features | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Chinese | | Two Part Making-Of Featurette | | Subtitles: English, French and Chinese | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 | | Visual Effects Progessions | | Deleted Scenes | | Widescreen Presentation | | Two Making-of Featurettes | | Alternate Ending | | Animatics |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 10/3/2006 |
| Running Time: 88 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 01269 | | UPC: 00043396012691 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: French, Chinese | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"[S]lickly suspenseful..." 04/01/2005 p.47London Times 4 of 10
I had an inkling that Stephen Kay's Boogeyman might be a 1970s disco revival. It's actually a - James Christopher
reel.com 2 of 10
The only thing scary about Boogeyman is the sheer ineptitude of the "filmmaking" on display. - Tim Knight
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