Also released as
- The Boogeyman
- The Bogeyman
- The Bogey Man
- Spiegel der Angsten
- Força Assassina
- Boogey Man - Der Tod wirft keinen Schatten
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The Boogey Man
The Boogey Man is a 1980 American haunted house film directed by Ulli Lommel. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, later dropped without a successful prosecution.
A haunted mirror and a Halloween score Ulli Lommel could not afford to license properly.
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A haunted mirror, a Halloween score Ulli Lommel could not afford to license properly, and a very effective first fifteen minutes.
A boy watches his mother's lover tie her up, and kills him. Twenty years later his sister, mute since that night, breaks the mirror that reflected it, and the shards start acting independently.
Lommel had acted for Fassbinder and moved to America with Warhol's circle, which is the background everybody reaches for to explain the gap between the opening and everything after it.
The mirror-shard idea is good and the film has no idea what to do with it beyond a sequence of deaths.
Listed and dropped. Followed by two sequels, the second of which is 40 per cent footage from this one.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · listed, then dropped
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The same film, sold as a different film in each territory. Click any of them.
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Australia
Germany
UK
USA
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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