The Boogeyman (1980)
Directed by Ulli Lommel

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you killed your mother’s abusive boyfriend in front of a mirror, then twenty years later broke that mirror, reassembled it, bled on it, and hung it up in your kitchen? If so, then “The Boogeyman” has the answer for you!

In this, “The original 1980 version,” as the DVD cover proudly exclaims, young Lacey and Willy are forced to play outside by their drunken slut of a mother while she fucks some random drunk on the couch. Those rascally kids get up to no good and start watching through the overly large, curtain-less window which is conveniently located directly in front of said couch. When mom sees this, she is none too pleased, and she and her lover, who is at this point wearing one of her stockings over his head, tie young Willy up and beat him. Afterwards, mom and the boyfriend retire to the appropriate place to have casual sex when you have children, a.k.a. the master bedroom, while Lacey runs downstairs and finds a kitchen knife with which to free her older brother. Willy proceeds to borrow a sequence from the original “Halloween,” and makes his way down the hallway using first person point of view while holding the knife directly in front of the camera. (Side note: young Willy magically becomes about six feet tall during this sequence.) Needless to say, Willy stabs the boyfriend while Lacey watches THROUGH THE MIRROR. Foreshadowing! Also, the boyfriend officially dies the moment a glob of blood bubbles up through his back with a hilarious “blub” sound. Kind of like that sound effect they use in “Ghostbusters” with the ectoplasm.

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