{"id":40141,"date":"2023-06-19T13:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40141"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T17:06:13","slug":"bad-girl-boogey-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/19\/bad-girl-boogey-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Girl Boogey (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I give filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay a lot of credit for pressing forward with a slasher movie that\u2019s based a lot around the LGBTQ community and a slasher that\u2019s centered on murdering citizens of that community. There aren\u2019t many horror movies that focus on the whole LGBTQ experience and on a slasher that\u2019s centered on them and only them. While I do credit director and writer Alice Maio Mackay for trying to offer something different, \u201cBad Girl Boogey\u201d excels in the directorial department but sorely needed work in the script department. The script is an aspect of \u201cBad Girl Boogey\u201d that could have stood at least a few more rewrites and re-thinking.<\/p>\n

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Follows Angel whose mother was brutally murdered one Halloween night, when blood was shed by a deranged killer wearing a parasitic mask cursed with black magic and bigotry. Sixteen years later, when Angel\u2019s best friend is slaughtered by a killer with the same mask, they must overcome their personal struggles, fight their fear, and find the masked killer before he, or it, slaughters everyone they hold dear.<\/p>\n

Writer MacKay only has about seventy five minutes to tell a story that spends three generations and packs in so much lore. So the movie literally has to stop to a grinding halt so characters can dispense information and exposition that\u2019s crucial to getting us to understand the narrative. And even then the movie is so hopelessly convoluted and hard to follow. The production crew even ropes in Bill Moseley in a voice cameo as an American radio DJ (the movie is set in the UK) who discusses the anniversary of the murders prior to the events of \u201cBad Girl Boogey.\u201d He spends about three minutes delivering exposition on a sequence we\u2019d just witnessed. It\u2019s almost as if the script has no confidence in itself so it goes over the lore it sets up twice.<\/p>\n

\u201cBad Girl Boogey\u201d has a good base premise. It\u2019s about a group of LGBTQ teens that from dysfunctional homes, and there\u2019s a slasher that\u2019s targeting parts of their community. No one knows who it is, nor is there a lot of understanding toward why it\u2019s happening. But from there the movie delves in to stuff about witchcraft, and the supernatural, and Nazis, and maybe the mask that the killer wears might have powers. But then the mask is only instrumental in the killer\u2019s inner desires to unleash horrific hate filled murders. But then the mask can also retain its power on previous users. The movie begins in the early 1900\u2019s, fast forwards decades later, and then takes us again in to a time shift, which makes everything that unfolds so jarring and difficult to follow.<\/p>\n

Beyond the obvious allusions toward \u201cNightmare on Elm Street,\u201d and \u201cScream,\u201d nothing really happens during the majority of \u201cBad Girl Boogey.\u201d There\u2019s no real tension or suspense, and the heroine doesn\u2019t do much to find the killer until the last fifteen minutes. For the majority of the movie she spends her time literally wallowing in self-pity and arguing with her alcoholic mother. I wish \u201cBad Girl Boogey\u201d had been better as Alice Maio Mackay\u2019s direction is solid, while the script has some nuggets of good ideas for a potentially slick LGBTQ based slasher film a la \u201cHellbent<\/a>.\u201d The script just sadly hobbles the entire film, bogging it down in tedium and plot elements that ultimately make no sense.<\/p>\n

Available on digital platforms July 4th<\/sup>, playing in select theaters July 7th<\/sup>, and on DVD July 11th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I give filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay a lot of credit for pressing forward with a slasher movie that\u2019s based a lot around the LGBTQ community and a slasher that\u2019s centered on murdering citizens of that community. There aren\u2019t many horror movies that focus on the whole LGBTQ experience and on a slasher that\u2019s centered on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[240,367,501,1401,2123,703,950,1008],"class_list":["post-40141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-crime","tag-foreign","tag-indie-film","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-mystery","tag-slasher","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40143,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40141\/revisions\/40143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}