Title: Whatta mess!
Product review: I remember seeing the previews of this movie on TV and now realize how slanted they were. They made you think this was going to be a scary, Nightmare on Elm Street type of flick but it's nothing like that. For one thing, you're never sure whether the hero, played very well by Barry Watson, is dreaming or imagining or whether the events are real. He keeps going into these rooms where he knows the boogeyman is waiting for him but does he even carry a weapon of some kind? Nooooooo. I couldn't tell whether his father was really captured by the boogeyman or whether this was a dream. This movie tries hard to be like "The Others" and "The Sixth Sense" but doesn't come anywhere close. I was amazed to discover that the director, Stephen Kay, was one of the key forces in the creation of the great "Evil Dead' movies. What happened, Stevie?
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