An absurd but proficiently grisly horror cheapie.

The Boogey Man offers an earnestness to filmmaking and the horror genre that is a lot of fun when it allows itself to go all the way. Shaky plots and lore but a fun time all around.

Slow and somewhat uneventful, trying to master some type of cinematic creep that doesn't register as intended.

The film is very evidently a low budget quickie but Lommel's direction raises it above the general appalling level of recent offerings with confidence in his material and noteworthy imagination.