The Boogeyman/The Devonsville Terror

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Summary: good, low-budget horror
Review: This is only a review of The Boogeyman, as I have not seen The Devonsville Terror. It is a well-made and enjoyable film, even though John Carradine is only in it for about four minutes. It's not very scary, though. This film got banned in the U.K. a few years ago, Which highlights how moronic the British censors are.

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Summary: The creepy worlds of Uli Lommel
Review: To watch either of these Uli Lommel horror films is to enter a different world. One feels that if another director had tackled either of these films, they would have been nothing more than schlocky low budget horror. But there's an intangible creepiness to Lommel's horror that overcomes the silliness of some scenes (being killed by a swinging medicine chest mirror, for example). Perhaps the sheer oddness of scenes like that contribute to the eeriness. The stories in both of these films are something akin to a cinematic non sequitar. They somehow seem to be lacking your standard A plus B equals C logic of a script. And yet there is a strange continuity to the films, an odd, dreamlike logic to them. One does not easily forget either of these films. I first saw The Boogeyman many years ago and it was always a favorite of mine. After many years of not seeing it, I purchased the DVD. Watching it anew after all these years, I noticed for the first time its surreal quality. And then there's the Devonsville terror, which has no right to be as good as it is. It shouldn't be. It should be stupid and boring. But somehow it's not. I highly recommend these to open-minded horror fans and fans of weird cinema. These films are not easily forgotten.