The Boogey Man

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with Willy and Lacey as children watching their mother and her boyfriend preparing to make out. When the mother notices them, she has her boyfriend tie Willy to his headboard before sending Lacey to her room. She frees Willy from his bed and Willy enters their room and repeatedly stabs his mother's boyfriend with a chef knife in front of a large mirror.
Twenty years later, Lacey now an adult, is married with a young son and lives with her aunt and uncle on a farm. Willy who also lives with them, but has not spoken a word since the night he killed his mother's boyfriend and sometimes, Willy takes various knives from the kitchen and hides them in a drawer. One night over dinner, Lacey finds a letter in the mail from her mother, who claims to be on her deathbed and wishes to see them one last time that night, but Willy burns the letter.
Lacey suffers from nightmares, and has a particularly frightening dream where she is dragged, tied to a bed and almost stabbed by an unseen entity. Her husband, Jake takes her to a psychiatrist to help her confront her fears, and decides to go visit the house she grew up in. They arrive not knowing who is actually living there and meets two teenage girls and their younger brother. Their parents, the homeowners, have apparently just placed the home for sale and then gone out of town. The daughter thinks Lacey and Jake have been sent by the real estate company to view the house. Jake and Lacey pretend they want to buy the house so they can look around. At the house, however Lacey sees a reflection of her mother's deceased boyfriend coming towards her in a mirror inside the bedroom where he died and smashes the mirror in a panic with a chair. Her husband takes the broken mirror with him in an attempt to repair it, but a piece is left behind which later glows red as the teenage girls and their brother are all killed by an unseen force. However, the vengeful spirit of the deceased lover has been released from the mirror.
Willy who's also having problems with mirrors. Seeing his reflection in one caused him to strangle a girl and so he paints all the mirrors in the house black. Later, pieces of a broken mirror in a bag at his feet cause a pitchfork to levitate and nearly impaled him, but misses the attack as he gets saved from it.
Another shard from the broken mirror becomes stuck to Lacey's son's shoe and is left on the ground where the light refracts across a lake where a group of teenagers are partying at the lake by an abandoned house. A couple who are soon impaled by a screwdriver while kissing in their car as another couple drove off and leaves them. Soon after, Lacey flees to get in the house, only to see that her shirt supernaturally starts to tear apart which also leads to her aunt and uncle who are also killed when they're found dead in the barn.
Later, Lacey's husband brings in the family priest to investigate the mirror, only to see that when the priest's hand touches the mirror, it suddenly turns red. A piece of the mirror floats across the room and becomes lodged over Lacey's eye, letting the ghost possess her body. Controlling Lacey's body, the ghost kills her husband and attacks the priest. Before he dies, the priest removes shard from Lacey's eye, releasing her from the ghost's control, and throws it into the kitchen sink, where it bursts into flames as it touches the water. The remainder of the mirror is then thrown into a well, where the same thing happens, as an explosion releases and destroying the mirror once and for all.
The film ends with Lacey, her brother and Kevin visiting the graveyard. After they leave, the final shard of the mirror on the ground, which had gotten stuck to her son's shoe, glowed red.

Tags: revenge, cult, murder, violence, flashback

Review:
What's odd, though, is that THE BOOGEYMAN is also an amalgamation of several other horror films, like THE EXORCIST, AMITYVILLE HORROR and slashers in general.The story is about two kids, Willy and Lacey, who kill their mother's kinky lover, who is abusive to them.
Terrified, Lacey breaks the mirror and basically "releases" the boogeyman's murderous rage (BTW, this is the best scene in the movie.
I don't know if this was intentional (I doubt it) but it's different.When you combine all of this mishmash of several movies with the very odd direction (which at times is goofy); the good to terrible acting from the cast; and the couple of questionable scenes, like when the boy is attached to the bed (which is probably why this film became a Nasty in the UK), the final product ain't stellar and yet, in the end, it's unique, in its own peculiar way.
It starts when through the reflection in a mirror, a little girl witnesses her brother kills their mother's lover .
Caught in a series of otherwordly events, she becomes inextricably involved in creepy murders .This spooky movie packs terror, tight pacing, bone-chilling scenes, tension, grisly killings and numerous images have you on the edge of your seat.It's a very average little horror movie and has some cool death scenes.
The story of a brother and a sister named Willy and Lacey (who are actually in real life both brother and sister as well ironically) who are traumatized by witnessing a murder that happened during their childhood, Lommel takes us as the viewer all the way to their adulthood for the most part of the film where their past still seems to haunt the both of them.
While Michael Myers was the physical embodiment of the 'boogeyman' legend (I say legend, but it is more a term given to whatever scares little children at night), Ulli Lommel's shockingly s**t video nasty goes the extra mile and adds a supernatural spin to the story in the shape of a haunted mirror.The quite effective opening has a young girl and boy spying on their slutty mother as she seduces a man with a stocking on his head.
Her psychiatrist Dr. Warren (John Carradine, looking like he's hoping nobody will notice his presence in the film) advises her husband Jake (Ron James) that she should go back to her childhood home to confront her demons.
Horror movies have long made killers out of strange things (tomatoes, clowns, a house), but a mirror that influences suicides?
surprising because Ulli Lommel was involved in writing directing and producing this thing.i didn't realise Lommel was behind it until i got it home.by then figured what the hey.i mean how bad could it be,right.after all,i managed to see at least some of Lommel's other travesties,B.T.K and Black Dalia.those were putrid.The Boogeyman however,is not.it has interesting story,some decent performances,and some unusual music/sound effects.it is readily apparent a low budget production,but i could watch it all,without having to pause to vomit,so that's something.no classic by any means,but still...for me The Boogeyman is a 5/10.
It has an interesting premise, a deadly mirror, but there are obvious cheap elements stolen from Halloween, Amityville Horror(there is a priest in this too), and other like films.
Ulli Lommel directed this rancid little horror film about a couple of kids who kill their neglectful mother's abusive boyfriend.
Years later the now grown kids, the boy now a mute man, the girl now a somewhat hot woman, return to their childhood house to find that the bedroom mirror has become possessed by the evil that it witnessed all those years ago.
Boring story, limp film making, bad acting...just not much to brag about here.A young girl witnesses a murder and gets traumatized and her brother goes nuts and an evil spirit has possessed a mirror and...ah who cares?
A concentrated evil power coming by an evil mirror wreaks havoc with the inhabitants of a small American farming community."The Boogeyman" directed by Ulli Lommel("The Devonsville Terror")isn't just a generic slasher film.It borrows some elements from "Halloween"(1978)and "The Exorcist"(1973),but it's very creepy!There are some gruesome death scenes,the film includes also mirror symbolism,childhood trauma etc.This is pure horror without any humor,so check it out!Recommended!.
It seems like Ulli Lommel watched more than one good horror movie before he made this, but he didn't quite know how to make one himself.
Here are some random movies that crossed my mind while seeing "The Boogeyman": "Halloween" (1978) (the opening-scene), "The Amityville Horror" (1979) (man, that one house almost looked like a replica), "The Exorcist" (1973) (throw a bit of possession and a priest in the mix) and "Suspiria" (1977) (those colourful lighting techniques towards the end).
Interesting premise: pieces of a broken mirror that "witnessed" a murder are now possessed by the dead man's spirit and are causing more murder and mayhem 20 years later.The scene with all of the mirrors in the house being painted black (a Rolling Stones reference?) was very creepy, but the idea of just simply running water on the broken mirror to destroy it was pathetic.
The camera-work - in particular the scene where sexy little Susannah Love is talking to her shrink John Carradine, filmed looking into a mirror - is intriguing and puzzling at the same time.
It seems like the people that made this movie had some good ideas but just couldn't make them come together on such a low budget as this, so this ends up being just a mish mash of scenes: some clever, some pathetic and everywhere in between.
I was suprised that this movie got such a low rating, to me it's one of the better horror films I've seen in some time.
Young Lacey (Natasha Schiano) is forced to watch as her brother Willy (Jay Wright) stabs their mothers' lover to death with a big, sharp kitchen knife.
Now, Lacey is afraid that the lovers' vengeful spirit has been released from the mirror and is out for blood.Overall, the script (by producer & director Ulli Lommel, Suzanna Love (his real-life wife at the time), and David Herschel is pretty slight, and sloppy.
This film was THE BOGEY MAN.In the opening scenes, the HALLOWEEN influence is clear, with a young boy murdering his mother's lover.
The fact it made this list merely indicates the insane lack of logic that went into the compilation of this often arbitrary list; whatever the case, its infamy as a video nasty is certainly one of the chief reasons people continue to seek it out today.It starts out with a prologue set twenty years in the past, where a couple of little kids kill their mother's abusive boyfriend.
It turns out that a mirror that literally reflected the earlier murder is now host to the malignant spirit of the evil lover and one thing leads to another and this mirror is smashed, unleashing the evil being who then proceeds to go on a killing spree.The influence of the earlier film Halloween (1978) is pretty evident in this one, with its opening prologue set 20 years in the past where a child murders an adult, its prominent synth score and even the title references the name that Michael Myers was often referred to in that earlier movie.
The boogeyman of the title is never seen after all and is an invisible being, while the film ends with scenes very much of the type seen in many religious themed horror movies that were somewhat popular in the 70's especially.
The boogy man 1980 I never this movie before however I did see the Bogey man 2 , years ago, I actually had it on DVD For some odd reason ( well I don't were that DVD went, I couldn't care less)As second one was full of the flashback , so I felt like I seen this movie already.The movie did start of a bit to much like Halloween and music was tad same with little twig to it I liked the how the evil mirror force used random things to kill them one by one And now days the way they are really funny The deaths scene in the movie make the feel more out dated then rest of the movieThe acting was decent for this kind of movie 5 our of 10.
I'll give this film some credit for originality, as the killer is unseen for the entire film, but it's easily assumed the "boogeyman" is the lover of Lacey and Williy's mother, who was stabbed to death by Willy after he tied the young boy up after he spied on them fooling around.
Suzanna Love was pretty good as Lacey, and her real brother Nicholas not as much as the mute Willy; he didn't have much screen presence, even though he finally speaks near the end.
Ulli Lommel's "The Boogeyman" is a reasonably creepy and atmospheric 80's horror effort, but ultimately lacking since it expects you to believe nonsense about supernaturally possessed mirrors and trapped murderous spirits homing inside them.
Lacey and her mute brother William (well, he's not really a mute, he just decided to stop talking at one point) are living on their relatives' farm ever since Willy killed his mother's crazed lover at young age.
The story focuses on Lacey; a woman who, as a child, witnessed her brother murdering her mother's boyfriend through a reflection in a mirror.
The Boogeyman (1980)*** (out of 4) As a child, Willy killed his mother's lover and all of it was reflected in a mirror and witnessed by his sister Lacey.
Soon a possession and murders follow.Ulli Lommel's THE BOOGEYMAN is a rather effective horror film that I've always felt deserved to have a much better reputation.
Towards the end you see she kinda starts to act like the girl in The Exorcist.I guess the only good thing to come out of this was Suzanna Love.
However, whilst looking around the house, the young woman is horrified to see her mother's dead lover reflected in a mirror, and so smashes it with a chair; in doing so, she unwittingly releases the vengeful spirit of the long-dead man, who embarks on a series of grisly murders.These days, director Ulli Lommel's output is so lousy that he even gets mentioned in the same breath as Uwe Boll during discussions on crap horror films; way back in the early eighties, however, the man once displayed a modicum of talent with The Boogeyman, a supernatural slasher that, whilst not exactly groundbreaking, still managed to deliver enough memorable moments to make it worth a watch.
Plus, it even made its way onto the official DPP Video Nasties list, thus forever ensuring itself a place in horror history.Part Halloween, part The Exorcist, and part something else I can't quite identify, The Boogeyman is a low budget blend of stalk-and-slash style killings and ghostly goings-on that manages to serve up a reasonably creepy ambiance.
The clever use of reflections from the shards of mirrored glass to foreshadow the killings, plus an atmospheric synth score, also help to make this one of Lommel's better efforts.The highlights of the film are definitely the gory death scenes, which are both inventive and gruesome; they include a girl pushing a pair of scissors into her neck (after kindly cutting her t-shirt open to reveal her breasts!), a boy having his neck crushed by a sash window, a pair of lovers pinned together with a carving knife, and a man impaled by a pitchfork.
It is unique.Everything culminates in a Exorcist-type nightmare where a priest manages to get control and allow them to consign the mirror, and presumably the boogeyman, to hell.But you know that's not going to happen.If you like slasher flicks and, especially if you are a Halloween fan, this is for you..
Even on the most base level however - gore effects - the film is not phenomenal, and the status as likely stemmed from the fact that children were involved in so much of the goings on.Overall it was such a bad movie, starting from the blend acting, very cheap and cheesy plot already seen a thousand times in a horror industry, and "actors" were really stellar like they were doing some kind of cheap commercial.
This is where the terror begins as now where there is a shard of this mirror the dude scene in the mirror can now reach out from beyond the grave and kill people and seeing as how this movie is four years older one can not say they copied this from "A Nightmare on Elm Street" though that is easily the superior film.
Willy is a young boy who takes bloody revenge on his mother s abusive boyfriend by sneaking up on him in bed and savagely stabbing him in the back while his sister Lacey watches in the mirror.
Anyway I haven't seen this in a couple of years but as soon as I track down a DVD I will.It's nothing like that other one I mentioned.It's better.From the first scene where a boy and his sister's mother is in a very kinky bondage session with her boyfriend.The boy Will is tied down to the bed only to get free and eventually stab and kill his mother's lover(Boogeyman).This is all witnessed by the mirror which the Boogeyman comes through in spirit.I know it sounds weird but this is actually a creepy,and somewhat scary flick.It has a certain grim atmosphere that reminded me a lot of the original 'Halloween'.The musical score that accompanies it is also good.There's also more than a few deaths,some gory.I think one of the reasons it might not be that known is because of the weird factor.But that doesn't change the effectiveness of this.I recommend checking this out or maybe even a purchase..
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder protégé, and former actor, Ulli Lommel, who had previously show his capabilities with his film 'Tenderness of the Wolves', The Bogeyman is an effective, interesting, if somewhat cheap horror film.A young boy named Willy is tormented by his mother's hulking lover.
However, In the interest of time, I'm going to try and not concentrate on those films, rather on Boogeyman itself.From this point on there ***will be spoilers*** Boogeyman is a film about a brother and sister, Willy and Lacey, how grow up in an abusive and sadistic home, with their mother, and her lover.
Willy then goes into his parents room and proceeds to stab his mothers lover to death, while Lacey looks on, viewing the events from the reflection in a mirror.The film then picks up several years later, Lacey now with a son and husband, Willy a mute, living on a farm.
I know this film was made on a small budget, but all the better reason to rely on the suspense of the kills then trying to exectue shoddy death scenes.It seems as though Ulli Lommel wanted the pieces of the mirror to seem like their own character in a sense, jumping off the frame, often finding themselves to the most convenient of locations.
The synthesizer-score sounds like as if it was stolen from Carpenter´s movie or Charles Kaufman´s "Mother´s Day" and the only notable thing is the appearance of horror-legend John Carradine - unfortunately, he doesn´t save the film at all!
This ultimately weird horror film starts with a John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN styled opening as brother and sister creepily watch their mother and step father from an outside window.
Fast forward twenty years and we see the siblings (played by real life brother and sisters Nicholas and Suzanna Love) living in a home that looks like the home from THE AMITYVILLE HORROR.
Now we're in the present and Lacey (Suzanna Love, who was married to the director of the film Ulli Lommel and appears in all the sequels) is married with a young son, living with her aunt, uncle and Willy (Nicholas Love, Suzanna's real-life brother)on a farm.
After witnessing her older brother "Jake" (Ron James) being tied up and gagged by his mother's lover, a young 3-year old girl by the name of "Lacey" (Suzanna Love) gets a knife and cuts him loose.
The boy then goes into his mother's bedroom and stabs the man to death with that same knife while his sister watches everything through a side mirror on the wall.
Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death.Horror fans are often mixed on this movie.
"The Boogeyman" is a 1980 horror film that focuses on Lacey and Willy, two siblings who grew up with a careless mother who let her boyfriend abuse them.
One evening, after being hog-tied to his bed, Willy breaks free and stabs his mother's boyfriend to death with a kitchen knife, while Lacey watches the murder from the bedroom mirror's reflection.
Her husband takes the broken mirror back with them hoping to further Lacey's recovery, but wherever a piece of the mirror falls, a savage murder seems to occur; could the man's soul be trapped in the shattered glass?Before Ulli Lommel began his hopeless streak of directing cheap, all-around poorly constructed direct-to-video horror flicks in the late 1990s and 2000s (which I may say from experience are very, very horrible films), he scripted and directed this bizarre little feature in 1980.
Why, at the end of the film, does Lacey become possessed, levitate, and have a piece of glass stuck to her eye, while all others who come in contact with the mirror are simply murdered by an invisible being?
If you like independant horror flicks that are dark and scary I recommend The Boogeyman, but don't show it to your children.!!!POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!We open up in the early 60's where a boy kills his mother's lover because he was mean to the boy.
They learn that when the boy killed the man, his spirit got trapped in a mirror and wherever it would reflect, tragedy would strike.Good story, acting, and music score.