History Film / TheBoogeyman1980

Not to be confused with the 2005 film, simply titled ''Film/Boogeyman2005'' and its sequels, ''Boogeyman 2'' and ''Boogeyman 3''.

Not to be confused with the 2005 film, simply titled ''Boogeyman'' and its sequels, ''Boogeyman 2'' and ''Boogeyman 3''.

--> ''The most terrifying nightmare of childhood is about to return!''

'''''The Boogeyman''''' is a 1980 {{horror}} film directed by Ulli Lommel. It stars Suzanna Love, Nicholas Love, and Creator/JohnCarradine.

!! This series contains examples of the following tropes:
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* TheBlank: What the killer is described as, though he's really just a guy with stocking over his head.
* BoundAndGagged: Lacey's mother's boyfriend should not have done that to Willy...
** Lacey had a dream involving Willy doing this to a woman.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: There's a very bizarre DVD edition of ''The Boogeyman 2''. The original version of the film wasn't very good by any stretch of the imagination, but it is unanimously preferred over what Lommel claimed was a "Director's Cut". This version consists of cheaply shot footage of Lommel being interrogated by off-camera police officers, and "flashbacks" that are 90% derived from Lommel's 1980 film ''The Boogeyman'', which ''The Boogeyman 2'' was a sequel to. The original version of ''The Boogeyman 2'' did consist of a lot of flashback footage from the first film, but it did have some new content, whereas the 2003 version of ''The Boogeyman 2'' is 90% footage from ''The Boogeyman'', 10% newly filmed content.
* MinorInjuryOverreaction Quite common in the first movie. Among other things, people die from being hit by an opening drawer and from being trapped by a closing window.
** UpToEleven in the sequel. A tooth brush manages to ''pierce through a man's mouth, somehow.''
* MirrorMonster
* OrwellianRetcon: A strange example. It was established in the first movie that the mirror that holds the evil spirit can combust into flames by applying water to it. The sequel, despite having stock footage that shows those exact events, including the climax where ''the entire mirror is dumped into a well'', that one shard '''never com-busts, despite being in a swimming pool in that climax!'''

* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight
* TooDumbToLive: In the sequel, a woman got pushed and managed to latch her mouth onto the exhaust pipe. Getting away from that has not crossed her mind. No surprise what happens to her then.
* {{Video Nast|ies}}y

* NoBudget: The second and third movies had no studio involvement on Lommel's request, and it shows, with it's heavy reliance on stock-footage, and the quality looking to be worse than the first film.
* OrwellianRetcon: A strange example. It was established in the first movie that the mirror that holds the evil spirit can com-bust into flames by applying water to it. The sequel, despite having stock footage that shows those exact events, including the climax where ''the entire mirror is dumped into a well'', that one shard '''never com-busts, despite being in a swimming pool in that climax!'''

* CherkovsGunman: The mirror in the introduction where Lacey witnessed Willy murdering their mother's boyfriend. That somehow stored his spirit, which Lacey accidentally released, or angered by striking at it.

* BoundAndGagged

* WhatAnIdiot: In the sequel, Lacey decided to keep that one mirror shard that was not destroyed, who should know full well that it is capable of causing death onto people by merely ''shinning light towards the victims!'' After all, she (''somehow'') knows about the lovers who were killed. That and it is capable of possessing people, something ''she has been a victim of!''
** CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: On top of this, she talks about the whole events (including a pointless dream sequence, and two series of deaths she could not have witnessed, let alone be able to explain in perfect detail) to a group of people who decided they wanted to make a movie about it. This ends up getting almost all of them killed by the Butler, who was possessed by the mirror shard Lacey kept. She even admitted to the audience that the mirror spirit was seeking revenge to those who dared to exploit it's story. So basically, in order to have prevented their deaths, she could have just simply ''kept quiet!'' Better yet, why not just ''destroy the remaining shard?!''

'''''The Boogeyman''''' is a 1980 {{horror}} film directed by Ulli Lommel. It stars Suzanna Love, Nicholas Love, and JohnCarradine.

* VideoNasty

'''''The Boogeyman''''' is a 1980 {{horror}} film directed by Ulli Lommel. It stars Suzanna Love, Nicholas Love, and John Carradine.

After a horrifying incident in her childhood, Lacey, now grown and married with a young son, lives with her aunt and uncle on a farm in relative tranquility. Her brother Willy also lives with them, though he has not spoken a word since the night he stabbed his mother's cruel and abusive lover to death. However, it seems the past is returning to haunt her, as Lacey begins having nightmares about being tied to a bed and threatened with knives.

As the recommendation of her psychiatrist, she and her husband visit Lacey's mother and the house she grew up in. Seeing a reflection of her mother's lover approaching in a mirror, she smashes the mirror, which proves to be not the end of her nightmares but merely the beginning of a new one...

''The Boogeyman'' was listed as a [[VideoNasties video nasty]] in 1982, but was later re-released in cut form in 1992. In 2000 it was released uncut.

A sequel, ''Boogeyman 2'', was made in 1983, also starring Suzanna Love reprising her role as Lacey, here approached by a group of Hollywood phonies to make a film based on her experiences, who subsequently are killed one by one by the mirror spirit. ''Return of the Boogeyman'' was released in 1994, and supposedly occurs alongside the events of the original (so they can pad things out with old footage recycled as "visions") and involves a psychic being haunted by the mirror man.