Boogeyman 2 (DVD)

This is a review of the 2007 sequel to Stephen Kay's 2005 movie Boogeyman and should not be confused with a string of Boogeyman films released in the 1980s. As young children, Laura and Henry Porter witness the bloody murder of their parents at the hands of a faceless, hooded psychopath. Years later, in adulthood, they remain highly disturbed, but Henry has recovered far more than his sister due to a stint in a mental hospital, under the care of a respected psychiatric doctor named Dr Mitchell Allen. When Henry gets the opportunity to work thousands of miles away, his sister Laura decides that she too must finally confront her demons, and voluntarily commits ...  Read the complete review

I hadn't seen the first Boogeyman so I wasn't sure whether watching the sequel first was a good idea, but it was on TV and I like my horror films so I decided to give it a go. I was pleasantly surprised as I thought this was going to be just another trashy teen slasher horror, but it turned out to have a bit more substance than I expected. The Boogeyman 2 was released 2007 but I don't remember it being on at the cinema so I thought it must be pretty bad to be on Freeview a year later. It's directed by Jeff Betancourt who also directed films in a similar genre such as The Grudge & The Exorcism Of Emily Rose, along with others like Get Over It. I wouldn't ...  Read the complete review