Calvin (Morie McCarthy) has only recently gone through drug rehab, and successully so, and now two befriended coples, Tim (Coyle) and Jax (Kellington), and Erick (Skybak) and Naomi (Mechem-Miller) want to show him about the beauty of life and nature without any drugs, and thus take him to a cabin deep in the woods. Thing is, they're not acually very good at is, as they for one bring booze to their retreat, for the other are more interested in their respective partners than into one another. And that listening to his friends shagging while he's on his own makes Calvin think about using again shouldn't come as a big surprise, and the screaming he hears from out of the woods doesn't help either. So when on one of his walk through the woods he stumbles upon a group of stoners (Chynna Rae Shurts, Jon Salimes) who offer him some 'shrooms, he's quick to accept - to then see his new friends brutally slaughtered by the local Boogeyman (Jason Brooks), he's shocked as can be. But when he returns to warn his friends, drugged out of his mind, they're not likely to believe him, and since the Boogeyman is a master in hiding his tracks, Calvin has no way to prove his claims. And yet, the Boogeyman exists, and Calvin's friends are the next to go ...

Now in writing, Revenge of the Boogeyman might sound like many other slashers out there, and of course it's absolutely true that the film plays with many genre tropes, but it's actually much more than just another killer-in-the-woods film, as on one hand it's really tied much more to characters than to mere horror setpieces, and fleshes them out and gives them arcs - which are sometimes cut short of course, as there's still some killing going on. On the other hand, the film adds some genuine, character driven comedy to the proceedings, comedy that really works beacuse it's subtle enough. And if you add a solid cast and a genre savvy direction to all of this, you come up with a pretty enjoyable piece of genre cinema.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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