Boogeyman 2 (2007)

Simply Perfect

Powerful

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

The acting in this movie is really good.

Years after a horrible accident, a woman still terrified of the Boogeyman checks into a mental facility to get over it, but when someone starts killing off the residents she realizes it's here to prey on her fears and tries to overcome them in hopes of dealing with the demon.This was a highly enjoyable and entertaining slasher. One of the best aspects is the rather great premise that it has where the fact that it uses the clichéd facing-fears gimmick to an advantage. There's plenty of set-ups to make it work, which is where the fun of this one actually comes from where each patient has a therapeutic exercise segment devoted to try and overcome their fear, and there's some greatness to this when it goes onto the kills. These here are exceptionally fun as they're fully encompassing of the fears and actually have the added plus of being expertly designed scenes to exploit a fun set of fears, from being stuck in the dark basement for the one with a fear of the dark to the cockroaches in the food for the germaphobe and another with a cutting problem strapped down while maggots are poured onto them and a knife left in easy reach. The kills overall are really brutal even when not taking advantage of their fears leading to quite a bloody series of scenes here which is just all sorts of awesome with an insanely bloody climax that is one of the greatest parts of the film. This is the highlight of the film, which is a long, really great final chase through the basement of the building in an ultra-creepy showdown that gets a lot right and the length easily makes it work. Due to taking place in the hospital with the closed in hallways, darkened rooms and general layout that provides this one with a stellar location to work with that has a great setting overall here. The killer's mask is really cool-looking as well, going with a really well-hidden cloak and a spectacular-looking demon-mask that stands out as overall, this was a greatly entertaining slasher. This one here didn't have all that many flaws. The main one here is the lame ending this one has. The resolution with the killer and the first few parts of the police are good enough, but then the film decides to tack on the ending from another film verbatim that was completely loathed, and while unexpected and a nice twist, doesn't make much sense and isn't really needed. The last part is that there's a really unnecessary beginning which makes it unclear what's going on. There's flashbacks, dreams and more thrown in which make it hard to understand what's going. As well, the attempts to tie this one into the rest of the franchise aren't all that worthwhile since it's barely even mentioned and could've easily been left-out such is the tenuous connection made here. These here are the film's only real flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Graphic Language, a mild sex scene and drug use.

This is a sequel to the 2005 film "Boogeyman," where a young woman with a phobia of the Boogeyman checks herself into a mental hospital in hopes of conquering her fears, but only finding herself and her co-patients coming face-to-face with a masked perpetrator.Loosely connected to its prequel, I thought this film was actually going to feature a ghostly figure playing on the fears of its victims. However, it is just another slasher movie with the typical teenagers/young adults running around and screaming as they try to escape a manic masked stalker with a knife. It's very "Scream" and I Know What You Did Last Summer" influenced.The plot goes at a fairly quick pace with some acting scenes that are actually somewhat creepy and riveting; the plot element about Dr. Jessica Ryan (Renee O'Connor) evaluating the scared patients was interesting and suspenseful and the acting was also fairly decent. However, I thought the first film was more original and captivating than this one, as the first emphasizes the horror of a real Boogeyman that lives in closets, while this one ***spoiler ahead*** is just a twisted man with a knife taking on Boogeyman's name to stalk the patients.The story does leave much plot holes and unanswered questions; therefore by the end of the movie, you'll be left hanging. ***spoiler ends*** Grade D+

It was the most ridiculous movie I've ever seen, however it did its part in entertaining me unlike other horror movies. I either look for the thrill factor, or at least jumpy scenes, which this movie failed to provide. Its attempt to scare the audience with quirky scenarios though did evoke an emotion out of me, though. I couldn't stop laughing hysterically throughout the movie.I'm sorry, but I don't know how somebody can get scared by the mere idea of literally gaining weight to the brink of explosion, or how realistic a severe OCD patient decides to drink bleach after eating a bag of chips with cockroaches in it. It just doesn't scare me. However, this movie entertained me for the wrong reasons and I don't think I'll ever forget it, so... good job.

I guess that the producers really had learned their lesson with part 1, the use of CGI was a complete letdown in part 1 but here we have a real boogeyman. It is even so that the boogeyman is more a real killer which gives us the fact that we are in the era of the slashers. The start of the movie learns us that two children witness the killing of both parents. The boy was already afraid and guessed that it was the boogeyman due the fact that the killer was never captured. For that reason they watched the children closely in psychiatry. Next stop, 10 years later. The boy tells his sister that he has to go. His sister is back in therapy but suddenly one after one people in her neighborhood get killed. She suspect the boogeyman is back in business. Once the killings start it's old school slasher style. I have seen the 93 minutes version in stead of the European version and I can say that the unrated version isn't afraid by showing the killings. It's mostly done in a bloody way or sometimes even in a gory way. The fact that the effects used are without CGI makes it all worth watching. It is also funny to see Tobin Bell as Dr Mitchell. I guess the director made an ode to SAW by putting in a device to rip open a chest. Anyway, Bell is excellent as all others who are really believable. You can guess easily who's the killer but the plot change gives it all worth watching. And for the ones wandering if all elements are in it to say it's a slasher, yes, Chrissy Griffith does show her milky ways in close up a few times. Sadly, part 3 was back to the imagination of the boogeyman in CGI, but the red stuff made it second best.