the man who drowned his sorrows is a 2014 malaysian short film written and directed by zulashraf abd rahman .

it won an award for best cinematography at the 11th malaysian student film festival .

the man who drowned his sorrows

nigel farage drowned his sorrows with wine before a sell - out audience for his first one - man show .
the man who drowned his sorrows , a short film by zulashraf abd rahman . starring nur adha shafiq bin yahya . sound mixing by muhammad azrin bin mohamad noor .
hi malaysia , it ' s been a week already since the grand awards . we are releasing the final version of the man who drowned his sorrows cinematic poster and with that , our journey will end .
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the human ken doll rodrigo alves drowned his sorrows on a flight home after doctors in india refused to carry out a risky operation to change the colour of his eyes .
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tearful rodrigo landed back in the uk on monday after drowning his sorrows with champagne on the first class flight home .
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when someone drowns , or when they are drowned , they die because they have gone under water and cannot breathe .
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but doctors said he couldn ' t have the operation because his eye chamber was 0 . 68mm too small to hold the implant safely .
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eventually things got worse and his heart was aching to let it all go .
the tv presenter travelled to new delhi , india , for a pioneering operation to change the colour of his eyes from brown to icy grey last month .
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as a friend of his , personally i am quite intrigued as of how he had thought so clearly of the idea .
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he has also had the skin between his inside lip and gum cut to give him a wider smile and liposuction in his legs and back which was re - injected elsewhere in a bid to make him look younger .
he is now looking into a laser procedure to change the colour of his eyes and added : ' it removes the brown colour of your natural eye turning into blue .
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what a way to wrap up this whole experience ! just a huge thank you to everybody who supported us all the way . we appreciate each and everyone of you . thank you so much .
but it’s now emerged that the us leader is said to be furious with mr farage’s criticism of his cruise missile attack on syria .
but brazilian - born rodrigo , from london , was forced to return the nearly 5 , 000 miles home after surgeons said his eyeballs were too small to hold the artificial iris .
his long list of surgery includes £8 , 000 on botox and fillers , £30 , 000 on three nose jobs , £3 , 000 on liposuction to his jaw and £10 , 000 on pec implants .
a big thank you to each and everyone of you who supported us from the very start . we wouldn ' t be here without your support . to our parents , families and friends , a big big thank you !
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beaming kate gazes lovingly at sleeping prince louis as she and william attend his christening in their . . .
a source close to the white house national security council said : “trump was far from pleased when farage criticised his decision to send missiles into syria . ”
rodrigo first went under the knife in 2004 after struggling with the way he looked since childhood .
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here come the godparents ! kate and william are joined by childhood friends - including guy pelly - and the . . .
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' he was my son ! ' devastated father sobs as he is detained by police moments after his two - year - old . . .
blue for a boy ! george and charlotte both wear the shade for their little brother louis ' christening as the . . .
risky surgery : to change his eye colour , doctors would have had to cut a 2 . 8mm slit and ' slot in ' an artificial iris
tom brady shows no mercy as he takes on gisele and his cancer - survivor mom in dodgeball . . . with a ' no crying ' rule
' the reason i ' m so open about my body modifications is simply because someone has to talk about it to break the taboo and the stigma that plastic surgery is bad for you . '
rodrigo had hoped the op would replace the hand painted £500 - a - time contact lenses he has been wearing for nearly 20 years .
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' if i go on a date with someone and it eventually developed into more , the person will expect me to wake up in the morning with blue or light eyes - but not brown .
when we started this small project , we could not have imagined how many people would be able to relate and feel touched with the story . the amount of genuine and warm feedback we received was way more than what we expected . we feel honoured that our story gives the viewers something to relate to .
i was actually planning to post about reviews on books that i had read for the past months first .
i mean i did once get my heart broken really bad but not to the extend of killing myself .
our next event is the grand awards this saturday at 8pm . we will be contesting for best short film , best director and overall best film . wish us good luck and thank you for the tremendous support so far !
thank you for the awesome support and positive critique so far ! we really appreciate every single one of them .
the operation would have seen surgeons cut a 2 . 8mm slit and ' slot in ' and artificial iris .
he has also spent £22 , 000 on a fake six pack , £7 , 000 on fillers to his arms , £7 , 000 on hospital bills , £7 , 000 on laser lipo , £6 , 000 on leg lipo and £3 , 000 on calf shaping .
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such a perfect princess ! cute charlotte steals the show again with her royal wave - and a very polite . . .
it is only available cosmetically in a handful of countries , and rodrigo flew to new delhi for the operation on april 30 .
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mr farage had hoped to land a plum job stateside and even hinted he could be britain’s official hotline to the us president .
' it is frustrating because i was really looking forward to it , but i appreciate the doctors have to take safety very seriously .
but then the adorable ashikin aziz said that if i could do a favour to promote zulashraf ' s short film on my blog .
so what a tremendous night ! we are humbled and happy to announce that we have emerged as runner ' s up in the short film category ! what surprised us even more was that zulashraf abd rahman was nominated as best director , and our short film was also nominated for overall best film of the festival . this is amazing to think that we were chosen as the top 5 out of 379 entries .
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he said : ' the doctors said my eye chamber is too shallow . i ' m very upset and i have been crying a lot .
party - loving rodrigo says he pays for the operations himself through promotional and tv work , brand endorsement and renting out 11 homes in spain .
' my next surgery will be another nose job as at the moment i sound too nasal and still and i can ' t breath very well .
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crushed hopes : rodrigo said : ' the doctors said my eye chamber is too shallow . i ' m very upset and i have been crying a lot .
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but things took a turn where at the last moment , he realized that they were so many things that are more precious in this world that should be worth living for .
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it ' s been a tremendous journey so far . more than 1 . 7k views on youtube & 124 likes , 220 votes on the ffp11 page and 446 likes for this page !
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we are humbled to announce that we have been chosen as finalists in this year ' s student film festival ! this means we will be contesting in 12 different categories this 20th - 22th november , and we hope with your continuous support we will try to achieve the very best , god willing .
so if you woke up this morning with that same heartache in your chest and that same feeling in your stomach , it ' s okay , because sooner or later when you realize that life means more than just another person , you ' ll push along through , and never look back .
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rodrigo , 33 , has already spent £397 , 000 on more than 150 body - changing operations and procedures - including liposuction , six - pack implants and botox fillers .
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almost everyday i promise myself to update this blog but i still have not yet get myself around to it .
and i even already made a promise to my boyfriend that i would write more entries soon .
i never once heard about this festival ever in my life until zul post it on facebook .
this is a big opportunity for young film makers especially students in public university to shine and show their potential and capabilities in film making .
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the boogeyman ( released in the united kingdom as the bogey man ) is a 1980 american supernatural horror film directed by ulli lommel and starring suzanna love , john carradine , and ron james .

the movie 's title refers to the long-held superstition of boogeymen beings , and its plot concerns an adult brother and sister who are targeted by the ghost of their mother 's deceased boyfriend which has been freed from an imprisoned mirror .

the film has received mixed to negative critical reviews , with criticism mainly regarding the heavy similarities from earlier horror films such as halloween , the exorcist , and the amityville horror .

however , the movie became successful enough commercially to make the film-makers eager to release sequels , resulting in the film being followed by boogeyman ii and return of the boogeyman .

the boogeyman ( 1980 film )

the boogeyman ( 1980 ) and return of the boogeyman movie review double feature .
the boogeyman is a 1980 horror film directed by ulli lommel . it was followed by boogeyman 2 , and return of the boogeyman . it is not to be confused with the 2005 film boogeyman .
not to be confused with the 2005 film , simply titled boogeyman and its sequels , boogeyman 2 and boogeyman 3 .
ulli lommel ' s the boogeyman ( 1980 ) was filmed in the state of maryland .
unfortunately , 1980 also burdened us with the boogeyman and we’re all a little lesser for it .
the boogeyman is a 1980 horror film directed by ulli lommel . it stars suzanna love , nicholas love , and john carradine .
in 1980 ulli lommel created the horror monster hit the boogeyman , starring suzanna love and john carradine . the extraordinary world - wide success created a long lasting franchise . in 1983 lommel produced boogeyman 2 and in 1994 boogeyman 3 .
, the subgenre was really taking shape . 1980 is best remembered for giving us
in 1982 , it was followed by revenge of the boogeyman aka boogeyman ii which re - used lots of footage from the first film . lommel later revisited the sequel and released a ‘redux’ director’s version that included even more footage from the 1980 original , plus newly shot scenes of himself talking directly to the camera .
the boogeyman is an unrewarding slasher film that doesn’t make the most of its ideas and isn’t even sure just what those ideas are supposed to be in the first place . believe it or not , the boogeyman scored two sequels : the boogeyman 2 and return of the boogeyman . before you set a date for your boogeyman trilogy marathon , be aware that much like silent night , deadly night part 2 , these sequels were made up almost entirely of clips from the first film in order to save money .
howlin ' wolf records , who recently released the restored soundtrack of the 1980 cult classic , ┬áhas been retained to oversee the production of the music for the boogeyman tv - series . a multi - media blitz including merchandising of the boogeyman creature , a video game and a graphic novel will accompany the series .
trailer for the 1980 film
the boogeyman
. 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 .
george lucas altered version : there ' s a very bizarre dvd edition of the film . the original version of the film wasn ' t very good by any stretch of the imagination , but it is unanimously preferred over what lommel claimed was a
director ' s cut
. this version consists of cheaply shot footage of lommel being interrogated by off - camera police officers , and
flashbacks
that are 90 % derived from lommel ' s 1980 film the boogeyman , which the boogeyman 2 was a sequel to . the original version of the boogeyman 2 did consist of a lot of flashback footage from the first film , but it did have some new content , whereas the 2003 version of the boogeyman 2 is 90 % footage from the boogeyman , 10 % newly filmed content .
yeah i think it is but avoid the sequel boogeyman 2 as it is atrocious , it reuses basically all the scenes in the first film wrapped around a very thin plot involving a film crew .
unless you want to watch the boogeyman three times in a row . to each his own .
the boogey man – or the boogeyman on promotional material – and the bogey man in the uk – is a 1980 american supernatural slasher film written , produced and directed by ulli lommel . it stars his wife suzanna love , nicholas love , ron james and horror veteran john carradine .
lommel can probably be credited with first bringing the legend to the sliver screen with his 1980 film , the boogeyman . although it was panned by critics during its limited theatrical run , the vhs mainstay spawned two sequels in 1983 and 1984 that were padded with flashbacks to the original film . this new outing seeks to reboot the boogeyman franchise , following the same concept of a mirror possessed by a murderous being that quite possibly has a nylon fetish :
in 1980 lommel moved to los angeles , where he started his hollywood career with the no . 1 box office hit “the boogeyman” , followed by 51 successful filmproductions , including twenty motion pictures made for lionsgate , currently the leading studio in hollywood . in 2004 sony produced a remake of “boogeyman“ , which again became no . 1 in the usa .
the boogeyman superstition has made its way on screen numerous times : the clown - like specter with a giant head and hooves that terrorized a young egon spengler on the real ghostbusters , a more humanoid creature that also stalks the closets of children in 2005’s the boogeyman… even disney and the wwe have had their own disparate takes on the character . now , director ulli lommel is bringing his original boogeyman back to scare another generation of kids with boogeyman reincarnation .
in 1994 , he also came up with the confused and confusing return of the boogeyman which also includes extensive footage from the original .
the boogeyman reincarnation trailer features more voiceover than audiences have heard in years during the coming attractions at their local theater . in that voiceover , lommel attempts to sell the boogeyman as a rival to the superheroes of the dc and marvel cinematic universes , as well as recapture some of the tone of his original film with some ominous green lighting . the film also features human centipede ’s laurence r . harvey and “american horror queen” tristan risk , recently seen in the editor . optimistically , the preview announces that boogeyman reincarnation will be coming to “theaters everywhere . ”
this page uses content from wikipedia . the original article was at friday the 13th ( 1980 ) . the list of authors can be seen in the page history . as with horror film wiki , the text of wikipedia is available under the gnu free documentation license .
the film was given a limited release theatrically in the united states by the jerry gross organization ( fulci’s zombie ; i spit on your grave ; blood beach ) beginning in november 1980 . it was subsequently released on vhs by wizard video .
yes i do believe that the film is cut , trying to find out if anyone else can see the cut made to the film as i described above .
friday the 13th is a 1980 one of the best known slasher films in history . the film was made in 1980 and was directed by sean s . cunningham . it starred adrienne king , kevin bacon , harry crosby , taso stavrakis , laurie bartram and betsy palmer as
mrs . voorhees
. the film was very successful at the box office , reaching $ 59 . 8 million on a $ 550 , 000 budget . retrospectively , the film has become a cult classic , despite initially , the film gained negative reviews . it has spawned eleven sequels , a 2009 reboot , an upcoming film , and a expanded universe . like halloween , it is one of the most successful independent horror films ever made .
original motion picture soundtrack for ulli lommel ' s 1980 slasher the boogeyman composed & performed by tim krog & synthe - sound - trax . vinyl edition is packaged in a deluxe gatefold old school tip - on jacket with printed insert containing exclusive liner notes . comes with obi - strip . color in color ( black in green ) vinyl , limited to # 1000 copies worldwide . also included is a bonus
cd - record
( a cd sized record that plays on a turntable ) containing a radio spot for the 1980 film .
the church and cemetery used in the film is extremely close to the main house and farm location .
the final reel reveal of the killer ( not jason ) kicks the film into a higher gear .
paramount bought friday the 13th ' s distribution rights for $ 1 . 5 million , after seeing a screening of the film . they spent approximately $ 500 , 000 in advertisements for the film , and then an additional $ 500 , 000 when the film began performing well at the box office . friday the 13th opened theatrically on may 9 , 1980 across the united states in 1 , 100 theaters . it took in $ 5 , 816 , 321 in its opening weekend , before finishing domestically with $ 39 , 754 , 601 . the film finished as the eighteenth highest grossing film of 1980 . friday the 13th was released internationally , which was unusual for an independent film with , at the time , no well - recognized or bankable actors . the film would take in approximately $ 20 million in international box office receipts . not factoring in international sales , or the cross - over film with a nightmare on elm street ' s freddy kreuger , the original friday the 13th is the highest grossing film of the ten film series . to provide context with the box office gross of films in 2008 , the cost of making and promoting friday the 13th—which includes the budget and the $ 1 million in advertisement—is approximately $ 4 . 4 million . with regard to the domestic box office gross , the film took in $ 112 , 915 , 537 in adjusted 2008 dollars . in terms of recent box - office performance , this film would rank # 3 for the current year as of april 2008 using the adjusted figures .
this is a poor film in almost every respect , the acting , the story , the editing , the sound , the everything .
ruggero deodato’s original movie was part of the video nasty madness and managed to get itself banned back in the 1980’s . it is now available on dvd , however , still remains one of the more [ … ]
ulli lommel is in negotiations for shooting the boogeyman tv - series starting to film in los angeles and alberta , canada in july 2015 with an initial 26 one - hour episodes . budget for the series is an estimated $ 4 million per episode . lommel owns the boogeyman franchise since 1980 , when he wrote , produced and directed a cult sensation grossing over $ 35 million world - wide on a budget of only $ 300 , 000 . in 2005 , sam raimi executive produced the remake which became a no . 1 box - office hit with over $ 150 million in revenues .
3 . the film’s costume team used a clever idea to keep shields covered up .
6 . a new species of iguana was discovered when it appeared in the film .
the boogeyman was listed as a video nasty in 1982 , but was later re - released in cut form in 1992 . it was released uncut in 2000 .
the whole film is one of the best arguments for resuming movie censorship to come along in years .
the main house and farm featured in the film is located in bel alton , right by the shore of the potomic river .
and then that angle is unceremoniously dropped when lacey breaks the haunted mirror and sets the boogeyman’s ghost free . whatever “murder - mystery” angle lommel was trying to set up is discarded and
1 . the film is based on a trilogy of books by henry de vere stacpoole .
the boogeyman is a 1980 american supernatural slasher horror film directed by ulli lommel and stars suzanna love , john carradine and ron james . the film concerns two children , willy and lacey who are punished by their mother ' s boyfriend , but soon take revenge as willy stabs the boyfriend with a kitchen knife while lacey sees a hanged mirror witnessing the event . 20 years later , lacey and willy , now adults are being terrorized by an unseen force and now what they believe as , the spirit of their mother ' s boyfriend is starting to strike up for revenge on the two .
in an interview with roger ebert in 1980 , shelley duvall described working with stanley kubrick as
almost unbearable , but from other points of view , really very nice , i suppose .
the boogeyman is a pleasant surprise for the grindhouse fan . the derivative elements in technique , music , setting that many would pan are simply whimsical additions to a fun story . simply put ; anyone who calls the boogeyman “a halloween / exorcist / amityville horror ripoff” is critically lazy and failed to discern between homage and mimicry . if you’re a horror enthusiast , it’s worth a watch .
a terrible crime echoes through the ages , as the souls of the condemned pay an eternal price for their vicious acts upon the innocent . with classic sensibilities and a contemporary feel , boogeyman : reincarnation is the spawning of a new era .
remarkably , the two the boogeyman films get a similar kind of first - rate treatment . i remember actually renting the boogeyman at a long - defunct colorado video store over a decade ago ( video plus , you magnificent bastards ) , a store that stocked a fabulous selection of lurid horror titles with fabulously trashy cover art - - the kind you felt guilty peeking at . this was not long after i ' d read stephen king ' s creepy short story of the same name and so i thought i was about to see a film version of it . no go , but sadder still , it was no kind of substitute ; if you can ' t scare an over - imaginative fifteen - year - old , you can ' t scare anybody . the boogeyman and return of the boogeyman dock on opposite sides of a flipper , with the former packed with a start - up trailer for the cave . the menu proper also offers these : ( the new , non -
the
) boogeyman , the yankee version of the grudge , resident evil : apocalypse , anacondas : the hunt for the blood orchid , devour , and the hilariously - titled chupacabra terror .
the boogeyman
is a peculiar little horror movie that mixed
halloween
,
amityville horror
and
the exorcist
. the plot was stupid , the acting terrible , illogical script , the cutting extremely bad , the pace is slow and feels dragged . the only positive element in the film are the murder scenes . this is e bad and dull film that gained notoriety by being black listed in england as a video nasty otherwise it just had disappeared .
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a sequel , boogeyman 2 , was made in 1983 , starring suzanna love reprising her role as lacey . the premise is lacey is approached by a group of hollywood phonies to make a film based on her experiences . the hollywood crew are subsequently killed — one by one — by the mirror spirit .
the film ends with one last mirror shard , missed by lacey and her husband , glowing red on the ground .
lommel directed his first film in 1971 titled haytabo , and his second film , die zartlichkeit der wolfe ( 1973 ) was produced by fassbinder . the cult classic was voted one of the one thousand films to change your life in time out magazine . lommel moved to new york in 1978 and began working with andy warhol and then in 1980 he made the move to hollywood where he directed the boogeyman . the horror became a huge success grossing $ 25 million worldwide ( a lot in those days ! ) after the boogeyman lommel toyed with a few genres before settling into horror as being his main genre , and has been making a feature film almost every year since , often two of three a year ! most recently he has made films like the tomb , absolute evil and nightstalker . in 2004 lommel set up his own repertory group in venice , working with a number of collaborators , they have released sixteen genre films on the lionsgate label .
return of the boogeyman was released in 1994 , and supposedly occurs alongside the events of the original ( so they can pad things out with old footage recycled as
visions
) and involves a psychic being haunted by the mirror man .
the boogeyman is a 1980 slasher film from german director ulli lommel . he made some stuff in the eighties that you may have heard about ; but , he is more infamous for putting out poor low - budget serial killer movies and straight - to - netflix zombie films in the last fifteen years . he is also famously responsible for putting out daniel der zauberer , a 2 . 0 rated film on imdb’s list of the top twenty worst films . like uwe boll , also german , this guy deals with constant critical hatred . i am here to review what is , in my eyes , his best film . however , after looking at his catalog of films , one would realize that this is not a difficult task to accomplish .
i found this dvd at a pawn shop for one dollar . it has the boogeyman and return of boogeyman , so i can definitely say i got my money’s worth . i felt like this was a decent little ghost / slasher film . it is fairly bland though . the kills are nothing special and there aren’t really any clever scares . there is one memorable kill where the guy takes a knife through the back out his neck . it comes out of his mouth and his girlfriend’s face gets pushed into it by an unknown force . this was a pretty sweet death , but the originality of this film really ends there .
4 . despite grossing more than $ 600 million worldwide , the film failed to turn a profit by the end of 1994 .
together with frank dragun ( producer ) and colin j . mccracken ( writer ) , lommel is currently in production for an eight 1 - hour series entitles “boogeyman chronicles“ , premiering halloween 2018 .
star suzanna love is the real - life sister of co - star nicholas love , who plays her brother in the film , and was at the time also the wife of director ulli lommel . she and lommel co - authored the screenplay for this film . see more »
poor annie every time she falls asleep , her dreams are haunted by visions of a faceless man committing unspeakable crimes . just like a kid afraid of the dark , the boogeyman has made her . . . see full summary »
as the truck rams the car over the cliff and falls off in the final film , there is a low roar sound effect that the filmmaker included to emphasize the death of the truck . spielberg , who wanted the truck to seem
released with 23 seconds cut in 2001 ; re - released uncut in 2005 . this movie was prosecuted . blood feast immediately became notorious for its explicit gore and violence . it is the oldest film to have appeared on the uk video nasty list . it is also often cited erroneously as one of the first films to show people dying with their eyes open ( earlier examples include d . w . griffith ' s 1909 film the country doctor , the 1931 film the public enemy and the 1960 film psycho )
the beast in heat , ss hell camp - no uk re - release . this movie was prosecuted . this is one of many so - called video nasties about fictionalized world war ii nazi pow camp atrocities . the film is currently banned in australia due to offensive depictions of sexual violence and extreme impact violence throughout . the film is also currently banned in the uk as well . the film continues to be re - issued in various formats ( vhs , dvd ) . due to the film ' s graphic nature , it has been banned from several countries and remains banned in some countries to this day . in 1992 , the australian classification board banned the film for
excessive sexual violence
and the film remains banned in australia to this day . the film is banned elsewhere too , such as the united kingdom where it was originally prosecuted as a video nasty .
the boogeyman , while occasionally faulty , is based on a premise that sets it apart in the slasher subgenre . disjointed editing makes for clumsy cadence at times , but the compelling story and fever - dream - like atmosphere make up for the odd pacing . its hazy , spectral quality unifies the film along with a cohesive plot that doesn’t rely on those components borrowed from horror hits of the past so much as it utilizes them right where they respectively fit . as a supernaturally - charged story about a household objecct , the boogeyman would make a solid double feature pairing with the more recent haunted mirror tale , oculus ( 2014 ) .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
toxic zombies - no uk re - release . this movie was prosecuted . the film was directed by charles mccrann , who also acted in the film . it was classified as a video nasty in the uk during the 1980s . this was the only film directed by mccrann , who became a businessman , and who died in his office in the world trade center , new york city , in the september 11 attacks .
during a rescue mission into the amazon rainforest , a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew .
most of the boogeyman ’s boldness lies in its up - close - and - personal shots of penetration during the death scenes , particularly in a bathroom suicide ( ”suicide” being used loosely here ) . tricks of the editing trade allow for the audience to see the actor’s face before , during , and after the moment of penetration , with buckets of blood for maximum viewer satisfaction . craig harris ( toxic zombies , 1980 ) gets credit for the hokey but entertaining kissing couple shish - kabob scene , which lommel enjoyed so much that he brought the special effects artist back for revenge of the boogeyman 3 years later . the movie’s climax offers a bombastic confrontation between good and evil that culminates in a glistening , bloody orgy of sharp phallic implements and unholy possession , all the things that would make your average one million moms zealot quake with fury , even today .
cinematographer néstor almendros was nominated for his work on the film , and while he eventually lost out to geoffrey unsworth and ghislain cloquet for tess , he already had one oscar at home for his contributions to terrence malick ' s days of heaven ( 1978 ) . the skilled dp was also nominated in 1980 ( for kramer vs . kramer ) and in 1983 ( for sophie’s choice ) .
the beyond - released with approximately 2 minutes cut in 1987 ; re - released uncut in 2001 . this movie was not prosecuted . seven doors of death . besides changing the name of the film , the film was heavily edited to tone down the film ' s graphic murder sequences with a new musical score . this alternately titled re - edited version was quickly released on video by thriller video .
between 1971 and 1977 ulli lommel directed and starred in 22 films in europe , two of which are represented by the fassbinder foundation . in 1973 lommel had two films in the top 10 box office charts in germany , “harlis” ( which he starred in ) and “tenderness of the wolves” ( directed by lommel , the film also opened the berlin film festival ) . in total his films garnered eleven of the prime german film prizes .
and some footage of lacey being tied up and threatened with a knife . the film was later passed fully uncut in the uk in 2000 .
the bogeyman was first released in uk cinemas uncut in 1980 , and then vipco released it on vhs in november 1981 . in october 1983 the film was listed as a video nasty and removed from shelves . the bogeyman never had the chance to build the reputation the true notorious video nasty’s gained due to it being dropped from the list in july 1985 . vipco then re - released it in 1992 with 44 seconds of cuts , however the film was later released uncut in 2000 certified 18 . better still , an extended cut was released in 2004 by hollywood r2 dvd and this too was uncut and passed as 18 .
still , the boogeyman is high art compared to its second sequel ( packaged , inexplicably , with the first film on opposite sides of a flipper ) , the excrescent the return of the boogeyman . it ' s hard to even call it a film , as it consists mainly ( 90 % ) of scenes lifted from the first two boogeyman pictures , strung together as the psychic experiences of narrator annie ( kelly galindo ) in sessions overseen by shrink dr . love ( omar kaczmarczyk ) . it ' s like an anniversary clips show for a long - in - the - tooth sitcom , filmed with the same sort of production values as a backyard porno and scripted ( by an uncredited writer ) with almost exactly the same kind of ear . you might be curious that it offers a few gratuitous , gauzy tit shots , which were conspicuously lacking in the original , but really , it ' s the kind of crap any chimp could put together on imovie given a little time and a handful of peanuts . i wouldn ' t trust my drink on it if it were a coaster .
brooke shields was just 14 years old when she filmed the blue lagoon , the infamously sexy and slightly salacious island - set romance that capitalized on burgeoning hormones in a big way . the film was shocking when it debuted in the summer of 1980—but even more than three decades later , it can still make jaws drop . here’s a look at some of its more compelling tidbits , complete with undiscovered iguanas and a nifty trick to cover up nudity .
however , this film currently holds a 59 %
fresh
based off 49 reviews at the movie review website rotten tomatoes .
for my phd , karel generously let me read for a full year , so that i could appropriate all the film - historical and theoretical literature . not until my second year , i left for the archives and started writing chapters . in addition , karel coached me in teaching the so - called a - workgroup , a second - year course where students in addition to literature studies ( film history : theory and practice by allen & gomery was regular fare ) also learned to conduct archival research in the collected cinema reviews in the press archive from the amsterdam city archive . until the release of the dutch online newspaper database delpher , this was a gold mine . of course , after five years ( 1989 - 1994 ) of film archiving and film identification at the film museum , and first articles about silent italian and dutch film , i had already gotten familiar with the archive world , but the fascination for research into film exhibition and reception came to a good start at the above course .
with over 32 songs on the official soundtrack and more used in the movie—including one song from the doors on the soundtrack and four others in the film—all of the bands featured in the film were american , and that was not a coincidence . “all the material in there is american , ” joel sill , the film’s executive music producer , told the los angeles daily news . “bob [ zemeckis ] felt strongly about it . he felt forrest wouldn’t buy anything but american . ” though formed in england and not in the u . s . , fleetwood mac contributed a song to the film and the 2001’s special collector’s edition soundtrack . fans liked the soundtrack so much it went on to sell 12 million copies worldwide .
whenever the action moves outdoors - to the beach , or to a different house , for example - it improves immensely . the boogeyman is a definite horror classic , but it struggles to escape from its stifling setting . nonetheless , i enjoy it more each time i watch it .
released with 1 minute 41 seconds cut in 1994 . this movie was prosecuted . though hardly convincing , the violence is extremely graphic and helped to propel the film ( released on video in the uk by iver film services ) onto the video nasties list . the film remained banned until 1993 , when vipco resubmitted it to the british board of film classification , who agreed to pass it with an 18 certificate as long as one minute and forty - one seconds ' worth of gory mayhem was deleted . almost all of the violent scenes were trimmed , but the castration of the biker and the removal of a student ' s intestines ( for use as a flail ) were removed completely . if the film were submitted to the bbfc now , however , it would most likely be passed uncut .
mr . zeman and ms . brancaccio , a deputy commissioner of the new york city human resources administration , have found supporters of their film . “i think it’s done very well , and i think it tells the truth , ” said donna cutugno , a staten islander who founded the volunteer search group friends of jennifer for missing children during the schweiger case . “we still have those other missing children . the boogeyman wasn’t a myth . ”
not that what i’m about to tell you is going to make you drop your monocle into your champagne or anything , but the boogeyman lacks any sort of story consistency . it’s almost as if it was two scripts that got bisected and then fused down the middle .
for all its shoddiness , the film manages , just barely , to achieve its ignoble goals - - it delivers what it promises .
the boogeyman opens on a truly disturbing and sleazy note , with a reminiscence of carpenter ' s halloween if it was more focused on a norman bates character played by a young ( and blonde ) joe spinell . the scene of the two kids looking through the window is going to stay with me forever .
lacey travels to hollywood , to the home of a film director , where she brings along the last surviving haunted mirror shard from the end of the first movie as proof to her horrifying experiences .
later on , retrospective reviews were much more positive regarding the film , with praise mainly towards its score , make - up effects , and betsy palmer ' s role , while it drew criticism for its script and lack of character development . dave kehr said that
for all its shoddiness , the film manages , just barely , to achieve its ignoble goals - - it delivers what it promises
. james kendrick gave the film a 3 out of 4 , calling it
a campfire boogeyman story designed to do little more than build tension and deliver a few well - timed shocks , which it does with precision and even a bit of artistry
. kevin carr said that
what makes the movie work is that the slasher genre hadn ' t been set in stone yet , and some choices that director sean s . cunningham makes in the film that work against type
. the film was nominated for afi ' s 100 years . . . 100 thrills .
karel dibbets has contributed significantly to the scientific study of film history in and about the netherlands . karel graduated at the dutch film academy in the section of camera and editing in 1971 , and in 1982 also at the university of amsterdam at economic and social history , at a time when departments of media studies in the netherlands didn’t yet exist . his ma thesis from 1980 , bioscoopketens in nederland : economische concentratie en geografische spreiding van een bedrijfstak , 1928 – 1977 ( cinema chains in the netherlands : economic concentration and geographical distribution of an industry , 1928 - 1977 ) , was a systematic empirical research that , afterwards , paved the way for digital humanities at large , and more specific his now - known and widely used cinema history database , an exhibition and distribution database of film in the netherlands , which originated from a research project supported by the national research council nwo in the years 2003 - 2007 . after his thesis , karel continued to focus on film exhibition and distribution . he wrote about it in the film magazine skrien in 1981 - 1983 , where he also served as editor - in - chief in that period . with the late frank van der maden he set up an authoritative volume in 1986 : de nederlandse film en bioscoop tot 1940 ( the dutch film and cinema [ theatre ] until 1940 ) . that “and cinema” in the title was very important to the editors : film was not just a story on the canvas , a medium , or “text” in semiotic sense , but it was also a place of exhibition and an object of trade . that recognition was in line with the so - called “historical turn” in film studies from the late 1970s onwards , even if in general mostly focused on exhibition and reception rather than on distribution .
eagle - eyed viewers will catch the word “flammable” scrawled across the back of the truck , yet when it careens off the cliff at the end of the movie it doesn’t go boom . the studio wanted a big explosion , but the director wanted a slower demise for his film’s villain .
passed uncut in 2003 . this movie was prosecuted . snuff is a 1976 splatter film , and is most notorious for being marketed as if it were an actual snuff film . this picture contributed to the urban legend of snuff films , although the concept did not originate with it .
i was checking through my r2 dvd of the boogeyman ( 1980 sony pictures ) and around the 45min mark a scene where a young woman is about to be killed by a pair of scissors ( anyone know of that scene ? ) the scissors appears to go towards her pink top to cut the pink top in a downward type way but this scene is missing ( i could swear this scene was in the old vipco video ) the camera just goes outside to the boy and the camera goes back to the bathroom scene again and then the scissors enter the throat and she ends up in the bath , now has this been cut due to titilation purposes ( ie blood on breasts a bbfc no no in their book ) because it does jump to the scene very badly as if their is footage missing from it .
friday the 13th was produced and directed by sean s . cunningham , who had previously worked with filmmaker wes craven on the film the last house on the left ( 1972 ) . cunningham , inspired by john
although the film closely follows the events of the first book in stacpoole’s series , also called the blue lagoon , the film’s sequel ( 1991’s return to the blue lagoon ) breaks with the storyline presented in the 1920s - era trilogy to essentially re - tell the original story ( read : more tanned teens falling in love on a tropical island ) . stacpoole’s books were far more concerned with the culture of the south seas population , particularly as it was being further influenced by the arrival of european cultures .
fans of the final destination franchise are already accustomed to the concept of an incorporeal entity wreaking havoc on anyone unfortunate enough to gaze upon it ( in final destination ’s case , the gaze is an ominous second sight ) . the notion holds origins in mythology and is widely used in horror . just as popular but often confused with the disembodied spirit ( which was always part of the spirit realm ) is the discarnate entity , which once held an earthly body before death . from the latin for “without flesh” , the discarnate entity often uses earthly objects as channels through which it conducts its malevolence ; such is the case in german director ulli lommel’s 1980 slasher , the boogeyman , in which a condensed evil spirit uses a mirror as a conduit to wreak havoc on a rural american family .
“cropsey , ” named for the mythic boogeyman of hudson valley campfire stories , is the cinematic version of peeking under the bed and not breathing a sigh of relief . two parts true crime and one part folklore , the documentary examines a string of child disappearances on staten island during the ’70s and ’80s , including two for which the onetime willowbrook worker andre rand is serving time .
the werewolf and the yeti , night of the howling beast – no uk re - release . this movie was prosecuted . the film was banned in the uk by the bbfc under the video recordings act of 1984 and was featured on the
video nasties
list . it has never been released in the uk .
no uk re - release . this movie was prosecuted . the film was on the uk government ' s list of video nasties in the 1980s and has not been resubmitted to the bbfc for a certificate since .
released uncut in 2004 . this movie was prosecuted . there was a little girl ( renamed madhouse for the video market ) was released four times on video . a watered - down , cut and edited version was released on vhs in america by virgin - label , discontinued and was released again five years later ( 1989 ) . the film ' s graphic content got it classified as a
video nasty
by the bbfc , and the film never saw a theatrical release in the united kingdom . in 2004 , the film was passed by the bbfc and was released uncut on dvd by film 2000 and then released by dark sky films in 2008 .
i think you imagined the scene with the scissors cutting the top . . all the versions i have seen of this film cut away at the same moment and return to show the scissors going into the girls throat . this includes the original anchor bay dvd release , which i just checked to be sure
as to the story of the tv - series , lommel goes back to the year 1861 , when the spirit of the boogeyman was born , after a lynch mob killed an innocent native american from the apache tribe . the bible for the tv - series was written by colin mccracken , ulli lommel and david bond . frank dragun , omar kaczmarczyk and david bond are slated as producers with peter davis ( highlander ) as executive producer .
variety claimed the film was
low budget in the worst sense - with no apparent talent or intelligence to offset its technical inadequacies - friday the 13th has nothing to exploit but its title .
what makes the movie work is that the slasher genre hadn ' t been set in stone yet , and some choices that director sean s . cunningham makes in the film that work against type .
re - released with 10 seconds cut in 1992 . this movie was not prosecuted . in the uk , the film was deemed to be a video nasty , most probably because of the drill killing sequence , and for the cover artwork which depicted the spiked bat . it was assumed that the bbfc had worries that because the killing weapon was depicted clearly , it was imitable . however , the film was not successfully prosecuted , and was removed from the list .
passed with over 4 minutes cut in 1988 ; re - released with 33 seconds cut in 2001 ; released uncut in 2009 . this movie was prosecuted . in the united kingdom , the film has had a history of problems with the bbfc over the years . the original cinema version was heavily cut with edits to the poker murder and the slashing of ann ' s throat , and this print was later released on video prior to the uk ' s video recordings act 1984 and subsequently banned as a video nasty . the film was made officially available in 1988 , though the print had been pre - edited by 34 seconds ( removing the cinema cuts ) and then additionally cut by 4 minutes 11 seconds with further cuts to the opening stabbing , the bat attack , norman ' s throat being torn out by freudstein and tracking shots of mutilated bodies in the basement . the film was again released in 1992 though this print had been heavily pre - cut by the distributors and removed 7 minutes 27 seconds of footage , thus rendering much of the film unintelligible . the 2001 vipco dvd issue restored nearly all of the film ' s prior edits but was cut by 33 secs by the bbfc with lesser edits made to the poker murder and a throat cutting . although willing to release the movie uncut , the film had recently been prosecuted under the obscene publications act following the discovery of bootleg copies of the uncut version , leaving the bbfc no choice but to cut the film . all the cuts were finally waived for the 2009 arrow dvd . the anchor bay dvd version was later released uncut , containing all the gore and violence from the original version . the film was released by blue underground on blu - ray ( as well as a new dvd edition ) on 25 october 2011 with a new 2k transfer .
german - born director , ulli lommel has had a few standout horror films in a sea of straight - to - video serial killer movie crap . in the beginning there was tenderness of wolves , the boogeyman and then the criminally underrated , the devonsville terror , what has happened to his body of work since then is not something i can explain .
if there was ever a film that didn ' t need a sequel , it was ulli lommel ' s the bogey man . this follow - up would have been more understandable if it were a personal project from the same director , but for some reason ; someone called bruce starr has taken up the reigns ( i neither know , or care , the reasons for this . or if bruce starr is a ulli lommel pseudonym ) . well . . . he sort of has , as this film is at least half a retread of the first film with direct ' flashback ' scenes making up a large proportion of the runtime . the plot this time focuses on some people in hollywood who want to make a film based on the events of the first bogey man film ( groan ) , this gives brucey starr an opportunity to stick a load of scenes from the original together with the stuff he directed . the main problem with the revenge of the bogey man is that it ' s mind numbingly boring ! i have to admit that even though it was merely a couple of months ago when i saw the first film , i can ' t remember most of it - and even that didn ' t stop the film being completely boring . the idea of a killer coming out of a mirror is more silly than frightening anyway , and while it doesn ' t surprise me that this film ended up on the dpp video nasty list , as the first one did and this is essentially the same film ; i for one wish it didn ' t because then i wouldn ' t have seen it . recommended ? nope !
the remake of friday the 13th is in development , with freddy vs . jason writers , damian shannon and mark swift , currently hired to script the new film . the film is reported to focus on jason voorhees , and that he will keep his trademark hockey - mask . the film is being produced by michael bay , andrew form , and brad fuller through bay ' s production company platinum dunes , for new line cinema . in november 2007 , marcus nispel , director of the 2003 remake of the texas chainsaw massacre , was hired to direct .
so , the boogeyman , a video nasty that is very very nasty , but is actually very very good too . this is a film that should be seen by all horror fans , young and old as it is , in my mind anyway , a genre classic that does everything it can with what it has , and delivers a clever , sinister and creepy little violent horror that can stand proud with the best of what the 80’s horror had to offer !
i expected this film more originality from this film , with the whole haunted mirror idea . the problem is that pieces of this mirror traveling through the world stuck some kid’s shoe , just didn’t do it for me . the ghost in this mirror was also apparently very distractable . he went after people wherever the reflection shined . so while a piece of glass was stuck to the kid’s shoe as he fished from a dock , the reflection went all the way across the lake and killed people who had nothing to do with the plot . i thought the ghost was pissed at specific people until this scene . despite this absurdity , there were still a couple early scenes where the mirror idea worked . in the bathroom , for instance , when the girl stabs herself in the throat , the mirror idea makes sense . it just seemed like halfway through the film they needed to find more deaths and ran out of main characters to kill . you will know what i’m talking about when you see it , because it gets to a point where the whole focus of the boogeyman changes for about a half an hour .
as children , lacey ( suzanna love ) and willy ( nicholas love ) murdered their alcoholic mother’s abusive lover ( howard grant ) . ya know , like ya do . twenty years later , willy has withdrawn and become a mute while lacey is still haunted by the memories of that night . hoping to put her inner demons to rest , lacey revisits her childhood home where the murder happened and in a fit of rage , destroys an old mirror . little does she know , trapped within the mirror was the soul of the man they killed , or as she calls him , “the boogeyman” . now , wherever a shard of the mirror falls , the boogeyman’s spirit is free to roam and murder whoever gets in his way .
in 1923 , director w . bowden crafted a silent version of the story . more than a quarter - century later , british filmmaker frank launder made a very well - received version for the big screen in 1949 , starring jean simmons and donald houston . the film was immensely popular , becoming the seventh - highest grossing domestic film at the u . k . box office that year .
outside of the flashback , the boogeyman only appears as an invisible entity that levitates objects or causes lots of wacky green and red lighting effects ( which seem to lommel cribbing the style of dario argento because this man has no original ideas to speak of ) . when you * do * see the boogeyman , he’s a guy with a woman’s stocking stretched over his head . you know , like when people rob banks in movies . if lommel’s intention was to create a classic masked slasher , ala michael myers , he really should have put more effort into the actual mask part ( admittedly , prom night had the same problem , but at least that movie had leslie nielson to take the edge off ) .