gavin6942 A young man (Barry Watson) tries to deal with the childhood terror that has affected his life.Is Emily Deschanel the poor man's Deschanel? In 2005, this might have been the case. Sister Zooey was already huge with films like "Elf". But soon, you know what? Emily would go on to do over 200 episodes as the lead character in "Bones". (Though her name is still probably not as well known, her success is not debatable.) This film seems to have terrible ratings... and yet they made some sequels? It's not actually a bad movie. If anything, maybe people were disappointed that we see so little of this "boogeyman" monster... but that should not be a strike against it. Rather than scare us outright, they worked on building the suspense. And that, to me, is the more challenging approach.

milessadler This is NOT a terrible movie! I'm going to start off with the worst part of this film. The Boogeyman is supposed to be an evil entity we hardly see, one who torments from afar, and is the subject of many a child-hood nightmare. Instead, he was a piece of garbage animation thrown into this film. I was very much disappointed in the fact that he was not an actor dressed to look the part. That was the biggest let down, and might I add, he was not a good animation either!! On to the good stuff. This movie had a good plot and better acting than I expected. I very much enjoyed Barry Watson's scenes with Franny the girl who had been abducted years ago. I agree with what other reviewers have been saying about those two being the evil defeating protagonists.All the deaths in this movie were kind of random and I didn't really feel bad when his father, girlfriend, and uncle were taken by the Boogeyman because we didn't get to see the torment, pain, and suffering that came from their abductions.Overall, this film had a lot of potential and blew it on the most important aspect, the villain himself!!

mystery_caper_2010 i don't see al the negativity of this movie its a remake and if you go in with an open mind you will genuinely like it some of the reason i think people didn't enjoy this film is simpley they were disappointed and expected more but it was everything it said it was going to be acting was great although i would of perfered to see more of franny and tims interactions franny wasn't one of thise spooky girls from the movies you see recently which is what made her presence creepy because she wasn't made out to be that way good story line good thematrical elements the only thing that would of made this film better was if they had left the boogymans appearense out and kept him more of in the shadows all in all not exorcist scary but definitely a decent flick

Scott LeBrun Boring, lame, under written spook show attempting to exploit childhood fears of possible monsters in our closets and under our beds. It begins with a child afraid of his closet for good reason: whatever's in there grabs a hold of his dad and drags him off to oblivion. Now he's a morose 23 year old with a sexy girlfriend who receives word that his mom (played by Xena herself, Lucy Lawless) has passed away, so it's time to revisit the childhood home and face those childhood fears, with the help of a little kid (Skye McCole Bartusiak). Some horror films can be average and routine but still be basically watchable. This one is so lifeless, with appropriately drab performances, that it falls back on the overuse of jump scares (no matter if some of them do indeed work) to try to get the audience to be afraid. The muddled plot prevents us from ever learning very much, and director Stephen Kay fails to give us enough reason to get involved with these characters and this story. He and his crew work overtime to build up atmosphere, and don't do too bad a job in that department. Sometimes there's an interesting moment, such as when our leading character Tim (Barry Watson) enters a closet in one location and exits a closet in another location. But this doesn't make up for a movie where our antagonistic entity fails to inspire any real terror, and the sometimes frenetic modern horror film style of assaulting us with "horrific" imagery and the fast and furious cutting gets annoying quickly. The plethora of digital effects only serves to distance ourselves from the story, and none of it is terribly imaginative. Worst of all, all of this leads up to an infuriating "What? That's it?" type of ending. The actors take all of this EXTREMELY seriously, which doesn't help; if only there'd been some better attempts at humour, it would have broken up the tedium some. Watson is not an engaging lead, and Bartusiak, Emily Deschanel, and Tory Mussett don't fare too well either. An unmemorable dud from Sam Raimi's and Rob Tapert's production company. Four out of 10.