Boogeyman 2 - Will's Review

As with last week, this will be a short review, and for much the same reason.

First, the (slightly) interesting bit; why this film exists:

Ulli Lommel was credited as director for both the original The Boogeyman, and first sequel, Revenge of The Boogyman, but in truth his Revenge credit only exists because of the footage recycled from the original. All the new stuff about the people trying to make a movie of the events in the first film, were directed by a 2nd unit director. Lommel decided that he wanted to make a directors cut of the 2nd film, and so Boogeyman 2: Redux was born.



Aside from a few very brief glimpses, all either in black and white or fast forward, all of the 2nd unit footage has been excised, leaving.... only footage from the first film.

To get around that, Lommel himself has taken the roll of the director from the first movie (the one who was trying to film the Stab, to Boogyman's Scream) and filmed some VHS footage of himself being interviewed by an off screen policewoman, about the murders that happened on set (that is to say, the new murders from Revenge).

Rather than recounting anything about the murders though, he instead recounts the story that Lacy told him, which was to form his new movie.

In other words, we get the entire first movie, with narration, and an occasional cutaway to new footage. AGAIN.

Boogeyman was barely worth watching once, it certainly isn't good enough to sell 4 times!

Avoid.

Boogeyman 2 - Redux - Lisa's Review

Having now watched Boogeyman, Return of The Boogeyman, Revenge of The Boogeyman and now Boogeyman 2 - Redux, I'm not going to waste a lot of time on this review.  If you have any interest in The Boogeyman at all, just watch the first one.  The rest are basically a rehash of it anyway.

This movie is sadly no different.  Of the running time, about 90% is made up of footage of the original Boogeyman movie.  Believe it or not, they managed to get some footage from the second one in there too.  The only piece of footage that is new is an interspersed police interview with Ulli Lommel  (conducted 22 years after the event) that is being conducted.  He claims to have no proper recollection of the events, but manages to narrate the entire events that happen in the first movie.

I'm afraid folks, there is absolutely nothing more to it.  It seems Ulli Lommel wanted to create what he feels SHOULD have been the sequel to the original, so he completely ignored the fact Boogeyman 2 has already been made.

Sorry for the scant review, but really this movie should never have been released.  Big fat avoid obviously.

I spent the extra time tonight watching next weeks movie to review as I won't be available next week.

Week 109 - Boogeyman 2: Redux

Alternate Titles : Boogyman 2: Directors Cut

Year: 2002

Reviews / Author Comments due: 22/06/2013

Reason for Inclusion: Re-edit of DPP nasty "The Boogeyman"

BBFC Status: Passed uncut in 2007

More Info: No Wikipedia Page, IMDB page for original and redux versions

DVD: LINK

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