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Also opening: Reunion with a nightmare
By STEVE PERSALL
Published February 3, 2005
Buy a ticket to a movie titled Boogeyman (R), and you know what to expect. That's good, in a way, since Screen Gems decided against making the movie available for screening in time for Weekend review.
Anyway, Boogeyman tells the heart-grinding tale of a man (Barry Watson, Sorority Boys) who returns to his Chicago home to confront his childhood fears. It seems that something nasty happened in his bedroom that he hasn't been able to shake off. Because a movie about psychoanalysis wouldn't sell as many tickets as a horror flick, we can guess which route director Stephen T. Kay (2000's remake of Get Carter) and three screenwriters decided to take.
Boogeyman does offer an answer to all those fans wondering where Lucy Lawless has been since Xena: Warrior Princess went off the air. The question is how a movie can contain "intense sequences of terror/violence and some partial nudity" and still get a PG-13 rating from the MPAA.
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