Return of the Boogeyman (1994 Video) User Reviews

A cynical and worthless waste of time

[Red-Barracuda · 1/10 · 16 December 2008]

The original Boogeyman was a silly but entertaining supernatural slasher flick. It was by no means a great film but fun in the right frame of mind. The third instalment in this series, Return of the Boogeyman, on the other hand, is simply atrocious. It consists of two things. Firstly, cheap and lifeless new footage. Secondly, LOADS of recycled bits from the first movie. The new material is unbelievably amateurish but not in an amusingly inept way, simply incredibly tedious. This footage has clearly been knocked together quickly and without any effort. It serves as a framing device for the endless clips from the first (and possibly second) movies. And boy, do they milk those clips from the earlier films; sometimes reusing sequences over and over again. The only new addition to these parts is a voice over that pointlessly describes exactly what we can see with our own eyes. The whole experience of watching this is truly mind-numbing.

Return of the Boogeyman is an example of the very worst kind of exploitation flick; the kind that exploits the audience in a highly cynical way. I want to keep this review brief and to the point because this film deserves no more. There is nothing here of value at all. This is worthless.

Worse than garbage, a blatant rip off (0 out of 10)

[andybob-3 · 1/10 · 16 December 2002]

I won't waste a whole lot of time of this one because as far as I'm concerned it isn't really a movie to start with, just a careless mish-mash of borrowed footage and embarrassingly amateurish new footage made solely for the purpose of pasting the whole mess together and call it a "Boogeyman" sequel. Literally 80% of this film is stolen from its far superior predecessor "The Boogeyman", a film that the writers of this garbage apparently didn't even bother to watch because they couldn't even get actress Suzanna Love's original character's name (Lacy) right. And to add insult to injury the killer is invisible in the original footage and visible in the new footage, apparently they think their audience is as stupid as they are. 0 out of 10 and I wish IMDb's rating system went that low, the most callous and blatant attempt to rip off people's money I've even seen, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Sometimes there are films that while they look bad turn out to be great...

[Sic Coyote · 1/10 · 11 December 1999]

this, is NOT one of those films it is one of the biggest pieces of tripe I have ever scene, the camera work is trying to be flashy but it really just crap the whole thing looks like the red shoe diaries, but without the sex, the only reason I bought this was I wanted to try out dvd and this was the cheapest one I could find, possibly the worst buy of my life and could have put you off dvd forever, the soundtrack is REALLY tacky and most of the movie is made up of endless repeats of clips from the first two films, why anyone would want to make a movie as awful as this is beyond me, if they had really attempted to make an original movie and failed I would be nicer in this review but they don't they just got the rights to reproduce stuff from the first two and then edit it and repeat it into this film with about maybe under 1 3rd original footage which is about up to the standards of film school students, DO NOT buy this movie. the only entertainment this dvd can offer is if you were to stick it in the microwave and watch the flashing lights! UTTER UTTER UTTER UTTTER unbelievable GARBAGE! 0/10 if only the voting system would allow that.

One of the worst horror movies ever

[Katatonia · 21 September 2002]

Don't waste your time on this one. This is one of the most boring horror films ever made. It looks like this wasn't even Low-Budget...IT WAS NO-BUDGET! The acting is just about as bad as you can get on celluloid. Pass on this atrocity because it's not even worth a penny.

Now that was a chore to sit through.

[lost-in-limbo · 1/10 · 19 February 2019]

"I'm finally free. Dr Love and Natalie set me free. Now I must try on my stockings. To prove to myself one last time that I am free".

What?!

Now that was unbelievably bad and quite a long 75 minutes. New and recycled footage comes together in this shoddy, patched-up second sequel. Why did I bother, well it was there... on the same disc of the original film. Over half of the film is filled with archive footage from "THE BOOGEY MAN", as a disturbed woman (Anne) commentates, or panics over the reused scenes. Literally she goes about explaining what's happening in those scenes in every detail... every detail?!

These sequences play as visions, including new footage of the faceless man (supernatural killer in the mirror wearing a stocking over his head) haunting her mind, which we learn are actually distressing premonitions. In these episodes for some reason, she keeps referring to the Lacey character (Suzanna Love) as Natalie (?!). At first I thought I was hearing things... not the case.

How the film connects all of this jumbled commotion is nonsensically dull and illogically stupid. When it's not focusing on the muted original inserts, then there's the new footage, erratically edited with wannabe artsy flashes. After a little story progression, amateurish in execution, but it's there, ultimately it settles on Annie and her therapist monotonously discussing what she saw, sometimes during her visions (where at one stage she lies naked on a mirror?!), or simply afterwards. In those moments, I couldn't help but be hypnotized by the therapist's thick, ungroomed eyebrows. They were that distracting. Well, at something managed to keep my attention.

One star for the audioless recycled film footage and of course those eyebrows.

shameless,incoherent rehash of its predecessor,The Boogeyman.

[disdressed12 · 1/10 · 12 August 2009]

in fact,it's basically the same movie.and they couldn't even get the time line of events correct.maybe that was intentional due to laziness or not caring.either way,this thing is a real woofer.it doesn't even deserved to be called a movie.i viewed this as a so called second feature on the disc containing the original The Boogeyman.i thought my head would explode,and i urge you to run as far in the opposite direction of this thing,if you should be cursed with the misfortune of combing across it's path.it should come with a warning label like:Warning-may cause your i.q to drop several points if you are within it's vicinity.for me,there's no doubt this thing is a 0/10

The absolute worst... and not in a good way.

[Briguy-14 · 1/10 · 28 November 2005]

The ENTIRE MOVIE is flashbacks from the first Boogeyman movie as well as, inexplicably, footage from another Uli Lommel / Suzanna Love film Brainwaves. It is framed with some more current (from the early 90's anyway) footage that is boring, poorly acted and cheaply shot. Not only is the film almost completely flashbacks, they REPEAT the same flashbacks throughout the film. So you see the recycled footage over and over again, as if you hadn't seen it already. As if the originals weren't bad enough. I've never seen a movie so padded.... Someone was milking the last dollar out of these films. Total ripoff. And talk about padding... why do I have to write 10 lines about this trash? If I can convey that it's garbage in 2 lines, that should be enough.

Return of the Boogeyman

[HorrorFan1984 · 2/10 · 1 June 2020]

In the third film of this tired series, a woman starts seeing visions from events of Lacey's nightmare in the first film.

This third entry into the series revolves around a woman named Annie who is having terrifying visions and dreams of a man with a stocking over his face. In her visions he is chasing her and trying to kill her. Annie attempts to figure out what it all means by seeing a psychiatrist who hypnotizes he. She starts seeing the events from the first film with the stocking wearing man who was murdered by young Willy. Annie also starts getting premonitions and looks into the future of murders about to happen in LA. Can she stop the murders before they happen?

Return of the Boogeyman is a no budget flashback film that is full of scenes from the first Boogeyman movie. I actually didn't hate the scenes that were actually new, but just like the sequel, there is not enough of those new moments. I'd say over 50% of this movie is scenes of the original movie and the rest is this Annie character just having visions of them and explaining to her therapist what she sees. The acting is terrible, but even worse than that is the quality of filmmaking by Lommel. It feels not only low budget but very low skill on the part of him and anyone who created the so called script this movie had.

Avoid at all costs. It's pretty much footage from the 1980 film The Boogeyman mixed in with 20 minutes of nonsensical filler.

2/10

A Terrible "Sequel"

[pulpnicktion · 1/10 · 20 March 2008]

Return of the Boogyman is a dreadful movie which doesn't play like a movie, it plays like an episode of a TV sitcom when they flashback to older episodes. Return of the Boogyman is just a clip show.

Mutch of the film is constant and annoying flashbacks from the first movie. Over and over again the same footage. How boring this is.

The movie really is about a psychic woman who has visions of the first movie.

I have seen the first movie I don't want to see the same scenes over and over again and I don't know who would. The whole movie looks like it was quickly made to make a few bucks and thats it.

This film could actually disrupt the space/ time continuum

[Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki · 1/10 · 24 August 2011]

This girl is on a beach, ever so mildly surprised by a bald fat guy with a stocking on his head, she runs to the water to get away from him, but then she's afraid to get her wittle footsies wet, so she starts to turn around. Fat guy in a wife-beater tank top and a stocking over his head chases her until she runs near a couple of other people, then he gives up the chase. Not a very determined man. Apparently she begins having nightmares about this "man with no face" killing people on a small farm (the events of the original film) This so-called "man with no face" clearly does have a face, it's just slightly obscured by the stocking over his head, you moron! Her shrink comments: "Annie continues to have nightmares, terrifying daydreams" - a bit of a contradiction here, doc. Shrink mutters "Annie and I have gone back in time" - no, she's just narrating numerous flashbacks to the first film, you bloody idiot. Shrink: "For the first time, Annie clearly identifies the time and space of the murder" Wait, I thought you said that the two of you had gone back in time? Shrink: "I'm not sure whether Annie fantasized, or whether the murder really took place" - but you just said you think she's gone back in time!

A takes-forever scene of a radio being dropped into the tub is flashed-back to several times throughout the film, so we get to see flashbacks of scenes that took place during the course of this film, coupled with endless quick-cutting, and (much like the second film) inaudible sound and dialogue, and completely random and unnecessary tinting.

The radio-in-the-bathtub scene played again. The flashback to part one followed by the bathtub scene again. A dream of a flashback within a flashback. A flashback within a flashback to a previously flashed-back to scene from the film! Again, what the bloody hell is going on here? These M. C. Escher-like angles of logic and interspersed flashbacks could disrupt the space/ time continuum.

Annie: "They walk inside, they are now entering the living room. There's another girl. They are talking, still in the living room. Natalie (actually Lacey) and her husband decide to walk upstairs. They continue walking upstairs." They've edited the killings shown in flashback to the first film, but they show spellbinding scenes like that, and scenes of people eating apples and folding laundry and cleaning up the bedroom in their entireties, complete with a narration telling us what we're watching for the fourth time.

Annie: "The mirror glows red. Red. A piece flies into Natalie's (again, it's Lacey's) eye", while laying nude on a mirror. Guy: "How old were you when discovered you had this special gift?"

But then at the end of this film, we are supposed to believe that this film (from 1994) and the original (from 1980) ran concurrently. What in the hell is going on here?

If my comments make little sense to you, how the hell do you think the viewers of this film feel? This could be one of the ultimate so-bad-it's-good films of all time, or it could just suck like hell, depending on one's perspective.

Evil can happen in the universe - at random - just like life.

[lastliberal · 4/10 · 29 October 2008]

This is not the video nastie, but only because it came out in 1994 when they were presumably tired of the whole thing in Britain. It is 75% a rehash of The Boogeyman, and would have been banned for the same reason - whatever that was.

I was initially confused as I thought that Annie (Kelly Galindo) may have been a different Lacey, but she was someone trouble by psychic visions of a boogeyman similar to the one in the first film. Fans will immediately note that they are not the same person.

After seeing a murder in a bathroom, and also seeing the address as well, Annie, her psychiatrist and a para psychology student who greatly resembles the guy on the cheap romance novels and butter commercials, head to the house, and, sure enough, it's the same bathroom. 24 hours later a murder happens just as she described. Of course, we have no idea who this boobilicious woman is or why she was murdered.

Then the movie shift to a rerunning of The Boogeyman story with some extra footage that we did not see in the original. Notably, the boogeyman is shown unlike the original. Sadly, some of the good scenes were cut, but 90% of it is there. Why rerun this film? Did they find the footage in the trash? What was the purpose?

We'll never know and, despite the psychologist telling Annie she is cured, we all know the bogeyman will never die.

Terrible movie, not worth watching (even to laugh at)

[kkhs1976 · 11 March 2010]

This movie was terrible! I am a huge horror film fan and really enjoyed the first movie. Suzanna Love should be embarrassed to even be associated with this film! The entire movie consists of flashbacks from the first movie with voice over narration giving a play by play of what we are seeing! They didn't even get the facts from the first movie correct. Her name wasn't "Natalie" it was "Lacey"! It wasn't 15 years ago, it was 20! They weren't "Natalie's mom and dad" they were "Lacey's aunt and uncle"! Come on!!! And, even though they keep calling her "Natalie" they didn't bother to edit out the part (in a flashback from the first film) where her brother Willie screams out "Lacey!". I also seem to remember the narrator "Annie" stating that the boy was going to harm the mother. Seriously, did they even bother watching the first film?

Garbage! Director needs a new hobby!

[darill-28027 · 1/10 · 19 August 2018]

This movie is garbage and makes no sense all the way through. The writer or director needs a new hobby or find another job elsewhere! They purely turn Boogeyman into trash! The first one was scary and okay but this "so call return of the boogeyman is worthless!" It is not worth watching.

Another lame recap and the worst movie ever

[Elvis-Del-Valle · 1/10 · 1 January 2024]

Ulli Lommel's The Boogeyman isn't a masterpiece, but it's a decent enough horror film to make it clear that it didn't need to have the sequels it did. If Boogeyman 2 was already a bad movie that gave more priority to flashbacks than to the story, this third installment is worse. Return Of The Boogeyman makes the same mistake as its predecessor, but taken to a higher level. The plot of the film is almost non-existent and is reduced to being another summary of the first film. It tries to tell Annie's story through her nightmares that are flashbacks to the first film. The idea is that the Boogeyman returned, but without explaining how. It is clear that they did not have much desire to make a new film from scratch and what should have been a wave of new murders, there is only one murder. The connection to the original film is almost non-existent and doesn't make much sense. The film is poorly executed in many ways. The editing between the flashbacks and the actual movie is pretty random. There are no good performances, the narratives feel very relaxing without giving much tension. There are scenes that don't make sense. The photo quality is fine, although the image feels like that of an adult film. From the beginning, it is clear that the film is not good, but it gets worse as it progresses. The way they try to confront the Boogeyman through Annie's hypnosis is incoherent. Even Annie says bad words on behalf of the protagonist of the first film. Upon finishing watching the film, it is evident that they made no effort to try to create a plot that would complete the premise, resulting in something quite ridiculous. It is clear that they did not feel like making a film and decided to do only a few takes and complete everything using scenes from the first film. It depends too much on flashbacks and at least Boogeyman 2 did have a story, no matter how short it was. Return Of The Boogeyman is worse than any bad movie, it is the sum of everything that no movie should be. Not even bad movies reach that level because at least they are made with enthusiasm. By the other hand, it feels like a home project and not a movie. Unfortunately, this was a pretty weak way to conclude the trilogy and only serves to further appreciate the first film. Return Of The Boogeyman isn't just the worst sequel ever, it's definitely the worst movie in the world so far, surpassing all the bad movies I've ever seen. My final rating for this movie is a 1/10.

One of the worst.

[TC-4 · 26 December 1998]

This started like a low budget movie and only got worse. The acting was terrible, especially by the Dr. Everything about this total waste of my time makes me angry that anything this bad is sold to take up 2 hours of my life. I really think that Plan 9 From Outer Space was better than this. Any TV Movie would be a pleasure to watch after this turkey.

How many times can we see the radio dropped into the tub?

[MACREADY-3 · 8 October 1999]

How many times can we see the radio dropped into the tub? Painful to watch. Felt like I was being punched in the face. Not worth the $5 for the DVD.

Awful

[Michael_Elliott · 12 March 2008]

Return of the Boogeyman (1994)

BOMB (out of 4)

Second sequel to 1980's cult film The Boogeyman is just as horrid as the second film, which used the same nature of film-making. This film runs a total of 72-minutes with at least 65-minutes of that using footage from the first film. As with Boogeyman 2 you're getting the original film with a few minutes worth of additional footage so that the producer's can milk this as some sort of sequel. In this "film", a woman starts having dreams (flashbacks from the first two films) so her shrink must figure out what's going on. The use of flashback footage from the first film isn't bad enough but the whole time they've got narration telling us what we're seeing. If you've seen the previous two films then you've seen this one already so don't even bother. Boogeyman 2 is one of the worst films ever made and that holds true with this one as well.