Entertainment Weekly - 5 February 2005 -
'Man Alive ''Boogeyman'' will scare up the top spot. It's February: time for big opening weekends for horror films
Hollywood Variety Magazine had a brief mention of Boogeyman Screen Gems' coming attractions include the horror sequel "Resident Evil: Apocalypse"; "Cave," starring Cole Hauser, Chestnut and Piper Perabo; the Sam Raimi-produced "Boogeyman," a follow-up to the slick monster
picture "Underworld....
The Hollywood Reporter -24 February 2004 on the
merits of shooting films in New Zealand with new tax incentives and quotes from Rob about Boogeyman and why New Zealand
LesbiaNation - 31 March 2004
We recently caught up with former "Xena" star Lucy Lawless making the pilot season rounds in Los Angeles, what she calls "the roller coaster of hell." The public hasn't seen much of Lawless since her brief guest role on "The
X-Files," her animated appearance on "The Simpsons" (and that tiny walk-on in Spiderman), but now she's back and ready for action. With two new film appearances under her belt, possible "negotiations" in the works for a TV show,
and the new Xena Season Three DVD set on the shelves - she's one busy lady, and loving every crazy minute of it. Read the entire interview
TVNZ.com - 7 February 2005 - Top Box Office Draw Has NZ Connection. A low budget thriller shot in New Zealand has set a new record for a film
opening on Super Bowl weekend in the US. Boogeyman, starring Kiwi actress Lucy Lawless and produced by her husband Rob Tapert, bought in an estimated $27.5 million in its opening weekend.
Added review of Boogeyman from
Filmstew.com Boogeyman - You know what’s really scary? Raving about a horror film to your professional colleagues and then watching its aggregate RottenTomatoes.com rating tumble into the single digits.
Added Lucy mention/excerpt
from San Francisco Chronicle - 5 February 2005 Cheap thrills overcome big holes in 'Boogeyman' Lucy "Xena: Warrior Princess" Lawless isn't as distracting as one might think playing Jensen's mother, but most of the other actors in this film are either forgettable or memorably bad. Then again, most people don't go to
movies called "Boogeyman" for the acting, or the realism. They go for the Boogeyman. Read review
Added another Lucy mention - for the record Lucy is 37 in March <g> Review from Richmond.com - 4 February 2005 Then there's his mom, who's played by "Xena" star
Lucy Lawless. Lawless only makes it five minutes into the movies before dropping dead. And for some reason,
even though she couldn't be older than 50 years old, she's made up to look like she's 143. Must be some sort of reverse Botox or something
Dominion Newspaper 3 February 2005 Horror Role for Lawless. Kiwi actor Lucy Lawless, who fought monsters from ancient myth in Xena: Warrior Princess, has to deal with the modern kind in a movie that opens in the United States today.
Added Lucy mention from Boogeyman review on Tahoe Daily Tribune - 4 February 2005 ...And his mother? How can you have a scary movie when your mother is Xena: Warrior Princess? Lucy Lawless (who still looks great) plays his, mom who worries too much what it is dad is reading as bedtime fodder nightly to
their son.
The Washington Times - 3 February 2005 Boogeyman (2005) (PG-13) — A horror thriller made under the production auspices of Sam Raimi, with Barry Watson as a young man obliged to return home and rummage around the traumatizing Gothic house where he
dwelled as a lad. He clings to a childhood impression that his father was abducted by an authentic boogeyman.
Riverfront Times - 2 February 2005 Boogeyman Stephen T. Kay. (PG-13) Falling smack-dab in the middle of film's darkest season (that'd be the time between Christmas and the Oscars) is this horror flick from Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures production
company. A young man (Barry Watson) who experienced terrible things in his bedroom as a child returns home to face his fears -- and to find out whether the terror was a figment of his imagination. Hopefully this one will be
truly spooky, unlike the recent (and abysmal) Hide and Seek. Opens Friday, February 4, at multiple locations. NR
Relish.com February 3, 2005
Scared to death Hollywood's infatuation with horror keeps on truckin' - and screamin' - with the arrival of Boogeyman, a new shocker from director Stephen Kay - whose 2000 remake of Get Carter was plenty scary itself.
Barry Watson (pictured) stars as Tim Jensen, a young man still haunted by childhood traumas. In an effort to exorcise his personal demons, Tim returns to his boyhood home to determine once and for all whether his fretful
memories were merely figments of his imagination.
Instead, he finds something else that may require exorcising.
Emily Deschanel, Skye McCole Bartusiak and Lucy Lawless (Xena herself) round out the cast of this winter chiller. Rated PG-13 Opens Friday
The Post Standard - 30 January 2005 'Boogeyman' Although Sam Raimi is listed as one of the producers, hopes are dim that "Boogeyman" will be a box-office winner. The movie opens nationwide on Friday. The horror tale casts Barry Watson as a young man who must
return to his childhood home to confront the terrifying visions that have haunted him all his life. Stephen Kay directs the chiller from the laptops of writers Eric Kripke, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White.
The Herald Sun (Australia) has an
article about the Australian actress/singer Delta Goodrin who is suffering from Hodgkis
Disease. The article is about Barry Watson and how he battled the same disease. Barry is
appearing in Boogeyman. The article has a mention of the movie and Lucy. Click
here to read the article
The following is from The
Dallas Voice Community Newspaper - July 2003 Xena battles The Boogeyman Everyone’s favorite warrior princess may finally be meeting a foe she can’t
beat: the boogeyman himself. Xena’s Lucy Lawless has signed on to co-star in The
Boogeyman, a thriller currently shooting in her home country of New Zealand. Along with
Lawless, 7th Heaven’s Barry Watson stars as a young man returning to his childhood
home to try to overcome traumatic, boogeyman-inspired events that took place in his
bedroom. Not to be confused with the schlocky ‘80s series of Boogeyman movies, this
fright-fest comes from Sam Raimi’s (Spider-Man) new horror production company, Ghost
House. Raimi used to executive produce Xena, and he’s also got a horror-picture
pedigree — he was responsible for such scary movies as The Evil Dead and Darkman.
