Revenge of the Boogeyman

2025

Action / Horror

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IMDb Rating 3.4/10 10 102 102

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Director

Erik Skybak Photo
Erik Skybak

Top cast

Calvin Morie McCarthy Photo
Calvin Morie McCarthy as Calvin
Naomi Mechem-Miller Photo
Naomi Mechem-Miller as Naomi
Jason Brooks Photo
Jason Brooks as The Boogeyman
Jon Salimes Photo
Jon Salimes as Jon
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758.21 MB
1280*658
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 7
1.52 GB
1920*988
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kannibalcorpsegrinder 6 / 10

Enjoyable enough when it matters but has some flaws to it

Heading out to a remote cabin, a group of friends looking to help their newly sober friend keep his drug-free streak going end up realizing that their numbers slowly disappearing over the weekend might not be their imagination but the work of a spectral boogeyman and must try to stop it.This was a severely disappointing effort without much to enjoy. Among its only positive aspects is the rather intriguing sense of uncertainty that builds up over whether the hallucinations or visions about the spirit haunting the trip. With his drug-fueled past and reckless abandon, there's a genuine ability here to be quite hard to tell what's going on with the confrontations and encounters with the spirit around the cabin attacking his friends, being quite difficult to tell if it's real or if there's something in his head. That soon turns into a strong rampage where the figure proves its true nature and sets about slaughtering the group in fine form as everything features some intriguing setpieces with some fine gore to help move the film along. Since it played off the mistrust trying to figure everything out, the excess strength makes the gags far more enjoyable, and with some fine nudity along the way, make for some fun elements here. There are some big problems here that hold this down. One of the biggest issues with this one is a cast of utterly unlikable and irritating characters that we're supposed to sympathize with but never come close to. The group that we spend time with are just flat out uninteresting, with the recovering drug addict a squirrely, whiny sleazebag more interested in getting high in secret or spying on the girls around him to build any interest, the couple who are leading the retreat spend more time having sex than trying to help him, and with stoners or flaky, untrustworthy figures around him trying to do their own thing that leads to him engaging in his vices rather than get help nothing here goes to plan. It's just not interesting how we're spending time doing these unproductive means that are far more selfish than anything else that his constant relapses are more their fault than anything else. The other outstanding flaw that emerges, with this setup being the main culprit, is that hardly anything remotely scary, chilling, or even funny arises for long durations of the running time. With the film trying to paint the idea of these instances where he acts shifty and squirrely, hiding his drug-induced state from those trying to help him, it's all bland and stupid due to how these scenes are played out. Their selfish and reckless behavior causes everything to happen, only to have it blow up in their face when he becomes maniac and on edge, which is simply not funny in the slightest. Moreso, the fact that he's constantly screaming out and yelling or seemingly unable to trust what's going on in front of him doesn't inspire laughs either, so everything is rather awkward and disjointed. Combined with the obvious low-budget limitations, these lower this one.Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity, sex scenes, and drug use.
Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 4 / 10

When friends go to a cabin and impromptu decide to make a horror movie...

Needless to say that I had not even heard about this 2025 horror movie prior to stumbling upon it. Given my love of all things horror, of course I had to check out the movie. But I have to admit that I wasn't exactly harboring the biggest of expectations, given the movie's title and its cover. But who knows, maybe director Erik Skybak was sitting on a pile of gold here.This was essentially a movie made by a bunch of friends getting together to shoot a film, as it was written, directed and starring Calvin Morie McCarthy, Chynna Rae Shurts and Erik Skyba. And movies that are written, directed and starred by the same people tend to be tedious affairs. So it was difficult not to get negatively influenced by that fact.Writers Calvin Morie McCarthy, Chynna Rae Shurts and Erik Skybak put together a script that proved a bit sluggish and uneventful. The movie was sort of struggling to get uphill many times throughout the course of the 82 minutes that the movie ran for. And that made for a somewhat dull viewing experience.The intimacy scene in the movie was insanely cringeworthy and it just dragged on and on and on and on and on. It served absolutely no purpose in the movie and it should never have made it through editing. Truth be told, that scene dragged down the movie a notch or two in the overall impression.I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, and that was actually something that spoke in favor of the movie, as I enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen. The acting performances in the movie were actually okay, nothing grand or great, but okay.Something that spoke in favor of the movie was the fact that the majority of the movie was actually shot in broad daylight.As for the special effects in the movie, well the few effects that were in the movie were actually fair. And I will say that the effects do help keep the movie afloat.The font that they opted to use in the intro sequence was such a poor choice of fonts, because it was hard to properly read the names and words on the screen.If you are a newcomer to horror movies, perhaps you should give this movie a fair chance. Maybe it will appeal way more to you than it did to me as a seasoned horror veteran.My rating of director Erik Skybak's 2025 movie "Revenge of the Boogeyman" lands on a generous four out of ten stars.
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