Boogeyman 3 (2008)

Simply Perfect

Excellent adaptation.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Attending a college with her friends, a young woman finds that her friends are being stalked by a demented figure from her nightmares, and once she gets them to believe her story sets out to find a way to stop it from claiming more lives around the campus.This was a solid if slightly flawed effort. One of the finer points of this one is the fact that there's quite a lot of work done here to really sell the idea of the creature and it's prowess. This one still manages to fulfill the idea of the exploitation of their personal fears which gives this one some rather enjoyable scenes here, from the incredibly fun opening attack in the girl's house where she gets attacked by the spirit and is followed up by the different freak-outs on the campus while she's visiting her friend, the actual attack later on where the creature appears unexpectedly while the victim is unaware of the creature behind her as she's on the phone, the crazy sequence of her friend seeing the creature while in the middle of a drug session and ends up confronting his biggest fear when the creature traps him inside the chest. The fact that this one also sets up her premonitions into what's coming up later as the lone visions she has turn out to be coming true which makes for a rather fun time once they do manage to emerge with the vision of the air-duct murder, the massacre in the dorm and the later attack in the laundry room further this one incredibly well as there's a spectacular connection between the two setups here. Since both work hand-in-hand to make the film about the creatures' need for pop-culture belief and the more power it derives due to that, this one manages to readily feature not only a great central killer but also gives this plenty of chilling and suspenseful scenes. Given that these scenes focus on a genuinely creepy and scary figure that is kept live-action for its scenes which allows for some spectacular make-up work not only on the titular killer but also the fantastically bloody and brutal killings, which all manage to give this one a lot to really like overall here. There's not much to dislike here, most of which revolves around the rather incessant inability to believe what's going on as there are plenty of scenes here that showcase something going on around the school yet this one going on for as long as it does with the idea of her being crazy. This goes on way too long to be effective and seems way too obvious it's being done simply to keep the storyline going. As well, the finale is way too clichéd and pulls out too many expected moments that really lower the effectiveness of the setup. These here are what hold this one down.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Full Nudity and drug use.

After shifting from a supernatural entity in "Boogeyman" to a flesh and blood lunatic in "Boogeyman 2," the killer in Part Three is once again of supernatural origin. A demonic creature, looking like something from a well-known demented rock band, is knocking off college student, and one girl does her best to stop the slaughter. Unfortunately, she doesn't fare very well. And no one believes her. The opening sequence, involving an old trunk, is a dilly. The rest of the movie unfortunately plods, although the murders do pile up quite rapidly. There's also some brief nudity for the guys to relish. Unfortunately, this boogyeyman is no more scary than the boogeyman in the original. Well three movies makes a series, right? Let's just hope this is the last we will see of this boogeyman.

I happen to watch BOOGEYMAN 3 on a movie channel and right off the bat I realized that I was watching a terrible combo of 3 classic horror films: SUSPIRIA, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (1986). The film starts with a hysterical girl who stays at a friend's room. Like the beginning of SUSPIRIA, the hysterical girl is terrified of everything around her, feels she's being pursued and eventually is confronted by a malefic being. The entire scene was so reminiscent of SUSPIRIA (minus the style of course) that I was having a severe case of deja vu. But as it went along, the tormented girl is attacked by the boogeyman while talking on a live radio show with her cell phone, which is identical to the plot point in Tobe Hooper's underrated Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. And this was just the set-up at the beginning, so it was downhill after that as it followed the very familiar horror template set up by A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. The entire film was terrible. Clichéd to the nth degree: the few male actors are dispatched quickly and then the rest of the film is spent on tormenting the bad actresses, huh, the female characters for our viewing pleasure. The girls are often in state of undress and such juvenile moments that will get 12 year olds excited. The film even ends with two anonymous girls stripping down to their underwear in their dorm room before the silly looking boogeyman makes a predictable appearance.No style, no shocks, no suspense, no originality, no logic. There's even a "horror" scene which takes place in the laundromat room, which we've have seen a million times in films like PULSE. With films like this, the horror genre is all but dead.

I have to say that this was a whole lot better than Boogyman II - The Wretched. I actually got into the storyline, albeit a storyline reminiscent of A Nightmare on Elm Street (believe fuels the monster), and though that the acting from the lead characters was above par for a film of this genre.Yes there were some plot holes, massive amounts of stereotyping and some run of the mill "scenes designed to scare". However I would be happy to watch this film again whereas I would rather stick pins in my eyes than sit through number Boogyman II again. The end leaves a nice follow on for a sequel and I can see there being a few of those to come.