Synopsis for
Boogeyman (2005) More at IMDbPro »

Tim (Aaron Murphy as a child) is frightened of wardrobes and closets. He imagines there is someone lurking there who wants to kill him. His father (Charles Messure) disregards his fears. He enters in the closet to prove there is nobody. He is attacked and killed by a sinister energy.

Tim (Barry Watson) is going to meet the family of her girlfriend Jess (Tory Mussett). They are wealthy and powerful, so poor Tim, a humble newspaper data checker is worried. The family has a still lip, especially Jess' father (Michael Saccente), who asks him about his family. Tim says that his father abandoned him and his mother many years ago.

Tim is put in the guest room, where he dreams of his mother (Lucy Lawless), interned in a mental hospital. At that moment, his uncle Mike (Philip Gordon) phones him to tell that his mother has died. Tim goes to the funeral alone, and decides to spend that night in his old family house.

He tries to convince himself that everything was just an illusion, but can't force himself to come into his old room. Kate Houghton (Emily Deschanel) falls from his frightened horse, and offers to cook Tim some dinner and bring it later. Tim says he's sorry for having split up with her like that some years ago.

Tim gets more excentric and terrified. There are two good scares, although he still considers it's all his imagination. In fact, he meets a young girl called Franny Roberts (Skye McCole Bartusiak) who asks him whether Boogeyman killed his father, and he says no. Jess visits him on the house, and Tim decides to go to a motel with her. There, he goes for some ice outside of their room while she gets into the bath. When Tim returns, she's disappeared.

Tim goes back to his home. He saves Kate, who came in to give him some home-made dinner, but she still doesn't believe him. When Kate arrives home, he doesn't want him to get in. Tim gets frantic, because he knows that the upstairs shadow is Boogeyman, not Kate's father. He tells her that Boogeyman will hurt everybody who matters to him.

Tim looks for Franny and asks her how to fight Boogeyman. He admits everything. She had been keeping the news and missing posters of many children taken by the boogeyman. She leads him into an old abandoned dereclict house full of graffitti and old newspaper cutouts. There, a madman (Ian Campbell) had tried to fight Boogeyman by nailing his chair to the floor in fron of the only open closet in the house. Franny says that he didn't beat Boogeyman because he was too afraid of him. Tim discovers that Franny was one of the missing children, that she's dead and that the madman was her own father. She insists that her father didn't succeed because he was too afraid.

Tim tries to stop it. He moves from one closet to another and sees Boogeyman killing Jessica, and can't stop Boogeyman killing Mike, who had gone to the house after a worried call from Kate. Tim goes around living his bloody fingertips all over the place. Kate is also attacked by Boogeyman, but Tim does save her this time. This is the first time the audiece sees the bluish shadowy face of Boogeyman (Andrew Glover). Now Kate believes him.

They come back to Tim's room. Franny appears and tells him to face Boogeyman where it all started and save himself because he can't do anything for her. He nails a chair in front of his old room's closet. Tim breaks and destroys everything which terrified him as a child: the lamp, the raven-toy which flew on its own, the electricity crystal ball, an old woollen coat with a hood, the monster toy put away in a drawer...etc. He and Kate are hit agains the walls by many objects, and that's how he kills Boogeyman.