Even the movie "Boogyman" is not the one from just a few years ago, it's another one of his pieces of crap.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD
I kind of remember seeing the TV ads for Ulli Lommel's "The Boogey Man"(1980). Those TV ads looked pretty scary IMO. And I know that alot of people probably hate Entertainment Tonight critic Leonard Maltin. In Maltin's TV Movies reference book, I don't agree w/ some of his reviews while the other reviews I do agree w/. However, his TV Movies book always seems to give a good review for Lommel's TBM. I know that Maltin's review says TBM is similar to "Halloween" and "The Exorcist", and maybe it's close to a ripoff. But Maltin's review also talks about actor John Carradine(David's dad) being good in his role. The TV ads showed an interesting scene w/ Carradine as a priest, I think. Carradine and another guy were touching that "haunted" mirror for a scene that looked like "The Exorcist". Although I still haven't seen all of Lommel's "TBM", I remember seeing the first 30 minutes or so on late night TV.
Based on what I did see, Mr. Maltin was right about TBM being similar to John Carpenter's "Halloween" story. But TBM still seemed to have an interesting story about a "haunted" mirror which witnessed a murder. The mirror would become shattered in some way, which would be the setup for the movie's spooky story. I've had an interest to see TBM ever since it first came out in theatres. So all of those reasons, w/ probably more(being a horror fan) are why I want to watch "TBM" on DVD and possibly in a special theatre screening.
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