The Boogeyman

Ahh, 1980. Back when everybody smoked indoors and wore 1970s pants.
Twenty years ago, Lacey and Willie's mom's boyfriend tied Willie to his bed for spying (Lacey was spying too but she got away with a stern warning, for some reason). Lacey, wanting to free her brother, got the hugest knife in the kitchen and cut the ropes. Willie decided to use his freedom to stab his mom's boyfriend to death with the giant knife and then stop talking forever.
Yesterday Lacey and Willie got a letter from their mom (who they hadn't seen since the murder) asking them to come visit her 'cause she's dying. They decide "the hell with that" but the letter makes Lacey have nightmares about the murder and makes Willie paint mirrors black and try to kill Lacey's friend who's trying to flirt with him.
So today Lacey and her husband go visit the house where the murder happened, where Lacey freaks out a breaks a mirror which was holding the soul of the murder, and now a heavily breathing invisible man is going around brutally killing people who get near shards of the broken mirror (or have light from a shard reflected on them, as the teenagers who had nothing to do with the main characters found out, only not really because they never found out what happened 'cause they were too busy being dead).
If you're into horror movies that can't decide if they're ghost stories or slasher flicks, then I'd say The Booogeyman's a pretty good choice. I liked it all right; there were some boring stretches and I'm not really sure if I understood everything that happened (water makes evil mirrors catch fire?), but I suppose I could blame that second problem on not really being able to hear quite a bit of the dialogue.
It was an entertaining eighty two minutes, if not the best I've ever seen. It's a solid "okay."

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-Sally