This movie is the biggest pile of sh**that I have ever seen. Its probably the only "grown a**man afraid of closets" movie, and I'm grateful for that. What probably sounded good on paper comes off terribly as a movie. All the actors seem like they rather be doing ANYTHING else. If you like movies where a man lives in a house with absolutely no doors and features shots of people VERY slowly reaching their hand towards a doorknob and then VERY slowly opening it, this is the movie for you. Oh yeah, and the "bogeyman"? A VERY poorly made CGI creation that will have you laughing instead of screaming.

This is another horrible remake that just makes no sense what so ever! Everything is just a mess of a storyline. You can't connect to any of the main characters because they are so boring. This whole film really just sucks. There wasn't a single thing I thought was good about this film. It sucked way worse than the grudge and the grudge was a real disgrace to all horror movies. I would rather not talk about this film ever again because it just deserves to vanish from existence. It takes too long to get you interested in the plot and I really hate all of these films, especially the sequels. The boogey man is just a joke now and it's too bad because with the title of the boogey man you think it would of been an interesting sounding movie but no the concept sounds boring and the cover looks stupid. I give it a 0 out of 10.

A cliché title of the monster in the closet, a young man living in the countryside is traumatized by the terrible events of his past he experienced in his childhood bedroom. He decides to face the fears of this monstrous creature by returning to his childhood home.Though the movie's title sounds cliché, this film actually has a nice, flowing plot that is full of suspense that will keep the audience engaged. Even the subplot of the main character's family and his girlfriend is intriguing. The acting was decent and the horror elements and sequences of the Boogeyman will actually give you quite a scare and have you hold the handle of your seat a few times. One of the more scarier and better horror movies i've seen.Grade B-

If you look at the negative review on this site, you will see most of them don't like the film because it didn't fit their expectations of what a horror film was supposed to do. Which is almost a sure fire sign that the film was attempting something over their heads. In truth, this is a clever, well executed film. No, there's no character development, but that's not the point of the film. The film is wholly about the conflict between the boogeyman and the Tim. It is rather like a tight, horror short story, which frequently have only the moment of the event in question, and only as much outside as is needed.) No, they don't show much of the boogeyman. But, again, that is how the film works -- with glimpses, and very effectively. No, there is no back story to the boogeyman, but there does not need to be. Why does a hero have to know the full story of his enemy to fight them? They don't. All that is is a convention, that makes movies easier to understand.I watched this film (on DVD, but I also saw it in the theaters) right after watching _The Forsaken_, and found great humor in that all the visual techniques that were being tried in _The Forsaken_ -- which were not quite working, often because of timing, often because of execution -- were used also in _Boogeyman_, but so much more effectively and successfully. The thing is, it is not a conventional film. It is imaginative, creative, very clever in camera work and storyline.I give it 8 stars because I can't give 7.5. Definitely check this film out, but don't walk in with expectations. Perhaps this is a thinking person's horror (horror for those who are attentive to details). It is definitely one of the exceptions to the rule that horror needs to be rated R.