The Boogey Man on AllMovie

The estimable husband-wife team of Ulli Lommel and Suzanna Love strike again with The Boogey Man. In emulation of Halloween, the film tells the tale of a youth who commits a murder in childhood, said action striking him mute. Years later, a haunted mirror that "witnessed" the crime sparks a series of gory killings. John Carradine, who evidently never turned down anything, shows up in the "Donald Pleasence" role. Other films invoked by the sublimely derivative Boogey Man include The Exorcist, Straitjacket and Psycho. Evidently audiences ate it up, else why would there have been an even more imitative Boogeyman II?