The Boogeyman

1980 : 1 hour 22 minutes

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Director: Ulli Lommel

synopsis

One of the major independent horror blockbusters made in the wake of Halloween, Ulli Lommel's The Boogeyman (Blank Generation) catapulted its director out of the arthouse circuit and solidified him as a master of horror. When she was young, Lacey witnessed, by mirror reflection, the brutal murder of her stepfather at the hands of her brother, Willy. Years later, Lacey has settled into a comfortable married life, with a child of her own, while Willy has been rendered mute as a result of his childhood trauma and has taken to removing or blacking out all mirrors in the family home. When the very mirror through which Lacey and Willy viewed the murder is accidentally shattered, a dark and vengeful curse is unleashed on the family, and soon anyone unlucky enough to come into contact with shards of the mirror falls victim to heinous murder...

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