Is 1997, starts off with 2 kids, Henry and Laura, and it is Henry's 11 birthday,while Laura has 8, then their parents, Mr.Porter and Mrs.Porter give Laura a toy house, the house has a problem with the lights, so Laura tells his father to fix it,and his mother goes to the kitchen,to bringing more cake,Henry looks bad,and goes for the corridor,and sees the closet door open, he closes it and goes upstairs, but suddenly the door opens again,meanwhile Laura is already playing with her new house, and her father is fixing the lights, a hooded man, with his face hidden due to the bad illumination of the house, appears behind of Mr.Porter,Laura is scared, while the hooded man is walking even more close to Mr. Porter...The hooded man grabs Mr. Porter, the hooded man pulls a rusty and antique clever knife of his jacket, and stabs him in the chest, Laura, don't know what is the hooded man doing to her father, but she knows is something bad, the hooded man, stabs twice he cuts his torso and somewhat grizzly, opens his stomach, but due to the poor illumination of the lights, we clearly see, that Mr. Porter is not bleeding, or we see his torso ripped to shreds,but when the hooded man stops stabbing and cutting him,we see his bloody intestines spilling out of his stomach, while the hooded man looks the bloody guts falling out to the floor and holding a sharp instrument, which is the cleaver, Mr. Porter, dies instantly in the first 2 stabs, and while his guts fall out, he sliding his body in a wall, and Laura, can't scream or speak, and is terribly shocked.She meets with her brother Henry, Laura tells Henry what happened to his father. Henry says Laura, that is the Boogeyman, Laura, or his parents do not believe in bogeyman, except Henry, that is already very afraid, and Laura starts believing it, and they hear a scream, the scream of their mother, Henry hides, and Laura goes to the kitchen, now is very dark, and she is just horrified, to see,with distorted vision, his mother stabbed with a knife in her neck,the wall is full of blood, the hooded man, appears again, through the window, and Laura screams uncontrollably and loudly, and the title:Boogeyman 2.10 years later (2007, setting of this film), Laura, now 18, and Henry, now 21, are still struggling with the traumatic event of their childhood but Henry looks fine and already cured from the thing that happened 10 years ago, and goes for an interview job, Laura learns that him assisted to the Hillridge mental hospital, and she voluntarily checks into the mental hospital, and meets more freak patients with phobias. She tries to overcome her biggest life fear.In the mental hospital, the patients start being killed according to their fears,by a man with his face hidden by a demon mask,jacket, hood,gloves It turns that the killer of the mental hospital, was Henry, abused by the Doctor Allen (played by Tobin Bell), some years ago, during the treatment of Henry, Henry got locked in a closet by Allen, and he encounters the real Boogeyman, and enters into him, and we learn that all this was a revenge of those who do not believed on the Boogeyman, so the ones that started to doubt his existence, the Boogeyman entered into their souls, so the hooded man that killed Laura's parents was possessed by the Boogeyman, Henry,now is a killer possessed by Boogeyman,but why movie makers don't revealed the identity of the killer of the beginning scene that Killed Laura's parents? because is obvious that the bogeyman do not kill them or either Henry, it was just a faceless hooded man holding rare weapons, and possessed by the Boogeyman. but when the hooded man of the beginning of the film, killed Laura & Henry parents, the hooded man encounters Laura, but the Boogeyman, controlling the hooded man, decided to spare Laura's life, and literally promising that he will come back to stalk her..However, despite being such a good story, it has a twist,because,first of all, Boogeyman doesn't appear on the movie, just 2 killers possessed by him, the Murderer of the beginning, and Henry.After the climax,he kills Allen and then begins to chases Laura, and Laura finally kills him with Garden shears decapitating him, the Police arrives, and takes the mask of the Head of Henry, just to see that she actually killed Dr.Jessica Ryan (played by Renee O'Connor) and actually Henry put the Boogeyman costume in her,and he escaped, after Laura knows that Henry is running free, she has a breakdown and is dragged away by police, misunderstanding her for a Maniac. Also, the killings on the film are creative and the same time, grizzly, and grotesque, some kills reference another movies, the first kill(Mr.Porter's Gutting) references to films, first references The House on Sorority Row,a woman goes to the basement to fix the lights, a killer grabs her, throws her to a wall, then the killer stabs her with a sharp cane in the chest,twice,and slides his body in a wall, like Mr. Porter, and second references Scream, classic of slasher's, the first 2 kills of the film, when a teen, is tied to a chair, and a automatic device, brutally disembowels him while his girl watches, same with Mr. Porter, who got gutted by the hooded killer when he was already dead by the first 2 stabs. Also with the final kill,by Laura,who thought she killed Henry but actually killed Dr. Jessica, references Halloween H20: 20 years later,And Alison's death, references Hellraiser 2, when a mental patient is given a scalpel to slice off bugs crawling on their skin, same with Alison, when Henry gives her a scalpel to cut the maggots that are crawling on her skin, and killing herself. However, i give this film 7 stars, Good, but confusing...

The filmmakers really wanted to tell a story with this one. And to a degree they succeeded. Casting Tobin Bell in a mysterious role is always a good catch too. Unfortunately most of the other actors do not completely live up to the task. Not to mention that the story is pretty weak if you think about it.The death scenes are nicely shot and you'll also have a sex scene inter-cut with a horror scene (which seems to be a favorite for many horror fans). So there are a few nice bits and pieces here and there (make-up is good too, for a small budget movie like that. You can have fun with this, because they did put a lot of effort into it, to make it look good too. Depending on your expectations, you'll either like it or hate it. Especially towards the end, it'll be splitting people/viewers

the 1st movie was "interesting" to say the least but this sequel i just don't know what to say about except maybe the title and thats predictable.so basically 2 siblings went to a asylum to get help from their fear of the boogeyman OK understandable, but you'd think that the so-called boogeyman himself would be an actual entity rather than laura's own brother who actually went deranged after his visit from the hospital but no they decided to stick with a slasher esque type of movie not supernatural.but the one thing i can't quite understand was that if the boogeyman was laura's brother (henry) all along then who (or what) killed their parents when they were 8 and 11 was it just coincidence or was there something in this movie that we overlooked all along?

I guess that the producers really had learned their lesson with part 1, the use of CGI was a complete letdown in part 1 but here we have a real boogeyman. It is even so that the boogeyman is more a real killer which gives us the fact that we are in the era of the slashers. The start of the movie learns us that two children witness the killing of both parents. The boy was already afraid and guessed that it was the boogeyman due the fact that the killer was never captured. For that reason they watched the children closely in psychiatry. Next stop, 10 years later. The boy tells his sister that he has to go. His sister is back in therapy but suddenly one after one people in her neighborhood get killed. She suspect the boogeyman is back in business. Once the killings start it's old school slasher style. I have seen the 93 minutes version in stead of the European version and I can say that the unrated version isn't afraid by showing the killings. It's mostly done in a bloody way or sometimes even in a gory way. The fact that the effects used are without CGI makes it all worth watching. It is also funny to see Tobin Bell as Dr Mitchell. I guess the director made an ode to SAW by putting in a device to rip open a chest. Anyway, Bell is excellent as all others who are really believable. You can guess easily who's the killer but the plot change gives it all worth watching. And for the ones wandering if all elements are in it to say it's a slasher, yes, Chrissy Griffith does show her milky ways in close up a few times. Sadly, part 3 was back to the imagination of the boogeyman in CGI, but the red stuff made it second best.