Sunday, January 9, 2011

Boogeyman 2

After the traumatic events of The Boogeyman, Lacey goes to Hollywood to visit her friend Bonnie, where she tells Bonnie, her husband and their friends extensive flashbacks to the first movie.
Bonnie and her friends (but not Bonnie's husband) decide Lacey's story would be perfect for a slasher movie and try to convince Lacey to sell them the rights. Meanwhile, Bonnie's butler becomes possessed by the one little shard of evil mirror that apparently didn't burst into flame when soaked with water in the first movie, and is going around killing off all of Bonnie's Hollywood friends.
Okay, so not only do we have some of the more interesting implements of death in this movie (toothbrush, exhaust pipe, 'Lectric Shave), but we have some anti-Hollywood soapboxing. All of Bonnie's friends are sleazy creeps and vapid airheads who are interested more in money and fame than artistry or letting poor Lacey cope with her ordeal.
Boogeyman 2 was a little long in some parts (which is sad when a movie's only seventy nine minutes) and the flashbacks to the first movie were a bit tedious (although they wouldn't have been if I hadn't just watched the first one) but that's okay. It was fun, it was entertaining and any movie that has a death by toothbrush is worth my money.
I think the most effective part of the movie, though, is the scene where Lacey is meeting Bonnie's party guests. They're all lit like someone's holding a flashlight under their faces and each of them says something uniquely patronizing or stupid, and not only can you tell that these people see her as a novelty ("Oh, isn't that cute, she's from Maryland") but you can freakin' taste how uncomfortable Lacey is. And you feel just as uncomfortable. These people are smarmy.
My brother JustinCase wrote a review of Boogeyman 2 a couple of months ago, and he far more eloquently worded pretty much everything I had to say about it. If you'd like to read that, it's here:
http://dpp39.blogspot.com/2010/11/hollywood-satire-video-nasty-style.html

End of line.
-Sally

1 comment:

Bradley Zybert said...

Thanks for the plug, but your review was quite eloquent.