10 Horror Movies That Really Needed A Better Villain
1. Boogeyman (2005)
Where trash-tier horror movie villains are concerned, it's impossible to discount the titular entity from 2005's Boogeyman. Not a good movie in any respect, but one made considerably worse by the creature's nauseating presentation.
The movie skirts around showing the closet-hopping baddie much at all until the very end of the film - always a good sign - at which point you'll probably wish director Stephen Kay never even bothered.
The Boogeyman is an entirely digital creation whose overly smooth, texture-devoid appearance and hilariously wonky animations suggest the character was quickly rendered by a teenage intern working at the studio on a Friday afternoon.
Even with the project's modest $20 million budget, this is seriously terrible stuff, enough to entirely sink a film that was already halfway underwater. There's a lesson here - if you haven't got the means to do justice to a creature, just don't show them at all.
Audiences will be far more forgiving of that than a parade of eyeball-assaulting VFX.
Though both direct-to-video sequels were largely panned by critics, there was at least scattered praise for Boogeyman 2, which largely eschewed CGI in favour of envisioning the Boogeyman practically.