Suzanna Love, Ron James, John Carradine

A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death.

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R, 1 hr. 22 min.

Directed by: Ulli Lommel

Release Date: November 7, 1980

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  • June 6, 2009
    Entertaining in its awfulness. The ridiculous but inventive death scenes have their own charm.
  • August 20, 2007
    This is a weird mix of "Halloween", "The Exorcist" and even "The Amityville Horror". It was one of the original banned "Video Nasties" in the UK (where it was called "The Bogey Man") but it's such a badly edited mess that it's now hard to see why.
    It's still a bit creepy in plac...( read more)es but certainly not scary and the low-budget makes it all look very cheap and even more badly done.
    It's still better than the 2005 remake though.
    Don't even bother with the sequels!
  • October 22, 2009
    Not being a horror film watcher I am not sure if this is standard, but this was really bad. Darth Vader ghost attack random people really doesn't make any sense.
  • September 21, 2009
    The Boogeyman sounds better than it's execution because Ulli Lommel gives this simple tale of an evil spirit trapped inside a mirror a fair amount of confusion & (even w/ it's low running time) a sense of boredom. This also contains one of the most annoying little bastards in ho...( read more)rror cinema that I was happy to see go by means of windowpane. Not as a grisly death as he rightfully deserved though...BOOGEYMAN!!
  • May 12, 2009
    a mirror is essentially the villain in this...really.
  • July 22, 2008
    Kind of a slasher/ghost movie that is better than most with this kind of budget. Just don't expect great things. Fun for a bad movie night.
  • June 7, 2008
    This movie was way cheesy. Not scary. Kinda funny though watching it with my family.
  • April 5, 2008
    The synopsis is kind of interesting..
  • March 23, 2008
    the boogyman is real!

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