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''The Boogeyman'', released in the UK as ''The Bogey Man'', is a 1980 American horror film directed by Ulli Lommel and starring Suzanna Love, John Carradine, and Ron James. The movie's title refers to the long-held superstition of bogeymen beings, and its plot concerns an adult brother and sister who are tormented by what they believe to be the ghost of their mother's dead boyfriend. The film was followed by ''Boogeyman II'' and ''Return of the Boogeyman''. The film has received mixed to negative critical reviews, with the heavy influences from earlier horror films such as ''Halloween'' and ''The Exorcist'' criticized as well as the fact that the titular serial killer is shown with ladies' pantyhose over his head.〔 However, the movie became successful enough commercially to make the film-makers eager to release sequels. ==Plot== The film opens with Willy and Lacey as children watching their mother and her lover preparing to have sex. When the mother notices them, she has her boyfriend tie Willy to his headboard before sending Lacey to her room. Lacey frees Willy from his bed and Willy enters their room and repeatedly stabs his mother's boyfriend to death with a kitchen knife in front of a large mirror. Twenty years later, Lacey, now an adult, is married with a young son and lives with her aunt and uncle on a farm. Willy also lives with them, but has not spoken a word since the night he killed his mother's lover, and sometimes, Willy takes various knives from the kitchen and hides them in a drawer. One night over dinner, Lacey finds a letter in the mail from her mother, who claims to be on her deathbed and wishes to see them one last time; that night, Willy burns the letter. Lacey suffers from nightmares, and has a particularly frightening dream where she is dragged, tied to a bed and stabbed with a kitchen knife by an unseen force. Her husband, Jake, takes her to a psychiatrist to help her confront her fears, and they decide to visit the house she grew up in. They arrive not knowing who is actually living there, and they meet two teenage girls and their younger brother. Their parents, the homeowners, have apparently just placed the home for sale and then gone out of town, and the daughter thinks Lacey and Jake have been sent by the real estate company to view the house. Jake and Lacey pretend they want to buy the house so they can look around. At the house, however, Lacey sees a reflection of her mother's dead lover coming towards her in a mirror in the bedroom where he died and smashes the mirror in a panic with a chair. Her husband takes the broken mirror with him in an attempt to repair it, but a piece is left behind which later glows red as the teenage girls and their brother are all killed by an unseen force. The murderous spirit of the dead lover has been released from the mirror. Willy is also having problems with mirrors. Seeing his reflection in one causes him to nearly strangle a girl and so he paints all the mirrors in the house black. Later, pieces of a broken mirror in a bag at his feet cause a pitchfork to magically levitate and nearly impale him, but misses the attack as he gets saved from it. Another shard from the broken mirror becomes stuck to Lacey's son's shoe and is left on the ground where the light refracts across a lake where a group of teenagers are partying in an abandoned house. All of them are killed, including a couple who are impaled by a screwdriver while kissing in their car. Soon, Lacey then tries to get in the house, only to see that her shirt starts to tear apart from an unseen force. Later, Lacey's husband brings in the family priest to investigate the mirror, only to see that when the priest's hand touches the mirror, the mirror turns red. A piece of the mirror floats across the room and becomes lodged over Lacey's eye, possessing her; she begins levitating. It is only through the actions of the family priest that the shard is removed (during which the family priest is stabbed by various floating knives) and thrown into water, where it bursts into flames as he dies from his wounds. The remainder of the mirror is thrown into a well, where the same thing happens, as an explosion releases and thus, destroying the mirror once and for all. The film ends with Lacey, her husband and the children visiting the graveyard, only to notice that one last mirror shard, missed by Lacey and her husband, glowing red on the ground. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Boogeyman (1980 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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