Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

After his father dies, the main boy is asked at a dinner table how his parents are doing, which appalls him (leaves him speechless) and the girl next to him feels for him and carefully changes the subject. It's clear that the reaction is like that's the first time he's been asked that since the opening scene. It's like it just happened. It DIDN'T just happen; it happened YEARS ago. He was a child and now a young adult. Furthermore, the opening scene got me hooked to keep watching but thereafter, when he goes back to the house and we hear the memories going through his head, which takes awhile, it's pretty boring and not scary.

I've heard this film is the remake of the 1980's video nasty, though it has a different, and better, storyline to boot. So if you've let that put you off watching this film stop right now.Here you have the story of Tim, (a hit and miss performance by Barry Watson) who suffers mental stress due to strange events in his childhood, where he believes the demon in the closet took his father. When his mother passes he has to sell the family home, which his uncle is kindly refurbishing.On the whole, this is an okay movie, though at the time of release I hated it. My newfound acceptance could be due to the lack of good horror on offer today; or worst yet, I've grown accustomed to the bad elements of this style of horror film which today's directors use in overabundance - such as the swooping camera's and crescendo sounds to startle not scare.The thing I loved most was the demon, though the director, Stephen Kay, should have left the CGI alone; it was mainly the essence of the demon I loved, thank you Eric Kripke who wrote the story and screenplay. Being able to travel anywhere and to any time through the wardrobe gives the viewer the feeling of distortion and unease; this ability also gives the demon great power. The thought of him also being able to take any shape, for Tim, it was the zombie model he used to have by his bedside, is chilling - what would he look like for you?Though most of the camera work is used to create action I did like the creepy segment where Tim meets his old friend and neighbour Kate (played by Bones, oh sorry, Emily Deschanel). This is a brilliantly filmed piece and flows so smoothly, in the age of shaky-cam I loved it.Also, the appearance of Franny, played really well by Skye McCole Bartusaik, was a great hook in the story... a secondary person who had seen the Boogeyman.There's quite a bit of story weaved into this hour and a half film, enough to keep you engaged, and if you like your horror to be at a break-neck pace then this should be right up your street. This could have been so much better though. There are times when Kay creates a spooky atmosphere, which is a great thing as the Boogeyman is about instilling fear into children. This is the way the film should have progressed instead of going the action and assault route.This is better than quite a few horror films around today so if it's on telly or cable then you could do worse than giving it a viewing.

Returning home after his mother's death, a troubled man returns to his childhood home to put his childhood fears of a supernatural entity to rest and stumbles upon the creature intent on targeting him for escaping his clutches years ago.Overall this one here wasn't all that bad and did have some good things going for it. One of the best parts here is the great atmosphere within this one, which makes for a much more chilling effort than expected generated by some really strong scenes here. The opening sequence, where the hooded figure runs around the bedroom and hides in the close leading to the chilling attack that's terrifying to see unfold in front of a child, is a real standout not just for the attack by the creepy set-up in his room that continues the feeling of dread throughout here is other great scenes with the several flashbacks to how he became tormented by the spirit. The other really impressive scenes, from the scene of him walking through the house and letting the atmosphere wash over the scene, a later encounter where he's accidentally locked inside a closet and readily freaks out thinking he's under attack and the really fun scene at the motel where it takes his girlfriend by appearing as a specter of dirty water attacking both her and him which is all sorts of fun here with the highly charged action making the creepy events portrayed within come off even better, all give this one some truly enjoyable scenes that bring along some really creepy moments as well. Other fun times occur here with the storyline helping the stolen ghost children, from their initial scene swarming over him to protect them while he pieces together their actual fates and the really enjoyable scenes where they visit her home with the posters along the wall and the different revelations that come from this which gives this the set=up from the wholly fun and intense finale. Filled with lots of high-end action of them chasing him through the different confrontations here as it takes out the family members in fun moments while bringing along the incredible final confrontations that has a large amount of fun with the way it leads up to dealing with the creature which ends this on a high note. Along with the creepy being itself, these give it some really enjoyable parts to overcome the minor flaws here. The film's biggest problems stems from the wholly impossible way to determine what's going on here, from the way it keeps running through time in the finale where the different methods here for determining the course of action doesn't seem likely to occur from future incidents back in the past, and the whole situation itself makes so little sense. That the entire scene here in the finale works it's way here is what really takes of while to work through and causes this one to really stand-out. The other flaw here for this one is the somewhat tame feeling on display here, with nothing here in the way of kills or violence here as they're all dragged way or feature nothing of any real value here, and the exceptionally low body-count doesn't help matters much with a rather small opportunity to choose from. These here are what hold this back.Rated PG-13: Violence, Language, Brief Nudity and constant themes of children-in-jeopardy.

Anyone expecting genuine horror from the producers of the EVIL DEAD trilogy – that is, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert – will be sorely tested by this stinker of a film which offers neither horror or chills in a mindless ramble through a bunch of horror film clichés, all done on a PG-13 rating. Yep, that's right, don't go expecting any gore whatsoever in this movie, or anything remotely horrific. Instead it's a dark and downright dull film, made by a nobody MTV director who has fun with all his camera shots but who can't direct his way out of a paper bag when all is said and done. The best bits of this movie have a real EVIL DEAD 2 feel to them – no surprise considering the producers – but the scares are less than half as good and the whole film has a "seen it all before" feel.Astonishingly, it takes over an hour before things get going in the movie, if you can call it that. Until then we get a talentless actor wandering through dingy corridors and having doors pop open in front of him; repetitive, yes, scary, no way. The look of the film is polished but it's so derivative and, in the end, empty, that I would prefer a hundred cheesy B-movies a la CROCODILE than sitting through this again.The cast is a bunch of nobodies, aside from Raimi throwing in his favourite actress, Lucy Lawless, playing the boy's mother in yet another blink-and-you'll-miss-it performance. The appearance of the 'boogeyman' at the film's climax is a hilarious example of how NOT to do CGI on a budget; this ghoulish spectre looks like something out of an '80s computer game, and its two dimensional appearance sadly doesn't cut the mustard in the modern world of effects-driven blockbusters. It would have been better to stick with a man in a rubbery suit. On that note, fans intrigued by the premise will no doubt have a lot more fun with the '80s Troma release, MONSTER IN THE CLOSET.