The Boogey Man? Try "the curse of the evil mirror," because that title would be more apt for this shitty excuse for a film. And to think, this is director Ulli Lommel's best movie to date. Good God this was terrible. How they managed to find a three-star review of this movie to grace the cover is beyond me. The movie is even compared to Halloween on the back cover. Someone needs to be shot for making a comparison between Carpenter's classic fright flick and this terrible piece of trash. So what's so bad about this movie (besides everything)? Well, for starters, it doesn't really make any sense. Two children witness their mother being murdered in front of a mirror, and now the spirit of the killer is trapped in that mirror years later. As we all know happens everyday in society. Yes, yes, I know, horror movies don't have to be realistic, but they should at least come up with a reason for WHY the killer's essence of evil got trapped in the mirror, don't you think? Anyway, flash forward into the future, and the boy and girl have grown up into "teenagers" who look way too old to be teenagers, and they're living with relatives, but they are affected deeply by the trauma they witnessed as children.

The details of how the evil of the mirror spreads are simply ridiculous--at one point, a piece of broken glass from the possessed mirror becomes stuck in a little boy's shoe, and when light reflects off the piece of glass, it causes people across a river to commit murder and suicide. This movie made me want to commit murder and suicide. I don't understand how the mirror could do that, or why it did that, or why the spirit of the evil wasn't released when the mirror broke (except that it seems like the spirit of evil WAS released, hence the big, evil light show in the end of the movie) but if the evil was released from the mirror, how come reflected light off the glass could cause people to kill each other and themselves? Perhaps could it be that the filmmakers are so totally inept at any and all aspects of their jobs that they don't realize that this makes absolutely no sense?

And then, as I said, a big evil light show has to occur, and evil has to be defeated, so while this big green ball of evil light hangs out in their barn, the family must defeat it...and why in hell did I buy this movie? Am I so hard up for viewing material that I decided to believe a positive three star review that compared this to "Halloween" even though I saw the name Ulli Lommel attached to the project? Who did they get to write a three star review, the director's brother? Or mother? Having seen some of his movies, it's hard to believe that his family doesn't hate him.

Don't ever, under any circumstances, no matter how desperate you are, watch this movie. Ever. For any reason. It is better you should view a test pattern than to subject your eyes to this tripe.