Boo (2005)

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Disturbing yet enthralling

Am I Missing Something?

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

You killed the dog.I know the dog wasn't really killed, but in a world of sick freaks that DO torture and kill dogs, even making that part of a film, isn't cool. And then to show the skinned dog and then make it come back to life and get blown away by a gunshot...nope. Animals are off limits...at least when I watch a movie, they are.The acting wasn't as bad as I was expecting the jump scares were kind of cool but no amount of cool make-up or scares can make up for the fate of poor Dutchess the dog. A repeat note to filmmakers...killing animals off in films is NOT cool...and for the record... doesn't matter that it didn't really happen.

I can't believe I am being forced to write 10 sentences about this awful piece of crap movie! I seriously would like to know what in the heck the "casting director" was thinking when they cast these "actors" for this film. Now, I am not one to slam another artist, but there is bad acting, then there is just absolutely horrible acting. This production company must have paid these actors in peanuts, because if they got paid, well, then someone got robbed! Now let's move onto the director of this train wreck of a movie. What alternate universe was this person on to think that this was a good movie? I mean, you take a look at a scene or scenes during dailies, and they thought, "oh yeah, this is some good stuff?" The story actually had some potential, but it needed to be tweaked a little. They could have really gored it up on a very cheap budget, but instead, they made it look cheap and like they weren't even trying. I could hardly even watch it because I was tortured by all of the ammeter stuff going on. Some of the scenarios in the movie were even more ridiculous than the acting, if you can believe that. I watch at least two movies a day, and I watch them all the way through, but this one was more torture than most.

Make no mistake, this isn't a great movie. Don't come in with expectations set by the classics, come in with expectations for a B movie, and you'll get that plus a little something extra. Boo does a great job of breaking pace with most horror movies, not taking itself as seriously as better ones, while still having entertaining scenes. More or less, you could say it's a popcorn flick.On it's good side it has a few characters that act decently -Jessie, Freddy, Caitlin, and to a lesser extent Allan, and two characters who play their parts great- Arlo and Nurse Russel. The first four, at least, aren't too terrible, and at best, can make scenes comedic, interesting or simply making them work. The second two are great for different reasons: Arlo being an aging cop with a tendency for great one liners and making otherwise boring scenes hilarious. Nurse Russel plays her part in a quite serious tone, with the twist involving her at the end giving the film more of a purpose in hindsight. Boo also has some few genuinely creepy moments near the start of the film, making use of Dutchess and the abandoned hospital to build some suspense and tension, and a clown scene that won't be kind to Coulrophobic viewers.On it's bad side, the two great characters don't get all too many lines though they make the most of them, the rest of the cast that weren't mentioned tend to sway between average (for a B movie) and slightly below average, and specifically for Kevin so bad it's hard to decide if he's trying to make his character that bad or if it's the actor. The creepy moments of the film unfortunately are mostly found, as said, in the first part of the movie. There's also some notable horror movie logic, though at least no one suggested "I think it might be best if we split up".Overall, this movie can be entertaining and funny if you don't take it too seriously, has some small spots of originality, it's own B movie charm and some of the best one liners to come from a B movie in quite a while.

This is a bad movie. I even have a appreciation for low budget movies i really do, i have seen a whole bunch.The speed of this movie is very very slow in the start. Then just lags on and on.The funny thing about this movie is the quality of the film as in "filming process" in not bad at all. This movie looks like a real movie. That is why im so surprised that the story and the actors we not better.I have never gave a movie a 1 on here before. But i had to on this movie because there are a million reasons why this movie could have been better but it was not due to things that were very fixable. Don't even bother.