Boogeyman (2005)

I watched this film this week and largely had the feeling it was. Fairly decent premise that was eventually let down by not being scary at all. I don’t think the actors were particularly awful or wooden. The story was just watered down and the psychological aspects of a child with night terrors was just not very scarily conveyed. Yet we all know that night terrors can be horrific for parents and children. I think one of the big problems with the film was that there was no real development o the relationship between the father and son. Yet we are expected to believe that a child who sees his father pulled into a closet at such a young age has affected him for the rest of his life. He seems to trust all the counselling he has had to convince him that it was just his processing of the trauma of his father simply leaving his mother - and not a result of the supernatural. Another issue is that, with a lot of Hesse sort of films, there was no explanation of what it was that was in the closet. It seemed to resemble a toy figure he had on his bedside table but why? Ultimately disappointing but I kept watching hoping for something interesting to happen. It didn’t.