The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 302

iO i 'Boogeyman' director Lommel explains Hie violence 'I Give Them What They Want' completely." That was the moment Lommel had bis revelation. After years of making motion pictures in Europe and America, seldom achieving recognition or box office success, he had stumbled across his audience. There it was the answer to all my problems. Now all I had to do was give something to those screaming teenagers. And -maybe I would get back something for the energy Td put into the The "something" that Ulli Lommel gave the youth of America is called "Boogeyman." And what Lommel is getting in return from the youth of America is the financial rewards.

For whatever else you might want to say about you cannot deny that it is making money. Tons of money. At 48 theaters in the Chicago area recently, it grossed $178,000 In a single week and was evoking new screams and hysteria three weeks later. This is a clear Indication that the film is not entirely hit-and-run exploitation fodder but has a word-of-mouth power. Why the film has that kind of strength is one of the intriguing questions of the current horror film phenomena.

"Boogeyman" comes to us in the wake of numerous other bloodletters which rely on graphic murders, horrific mutilla-tion and murderous mayhem for their 8hock(ing) values. Therefore it is elemen- By John Stanley IF INDEED we live in the Age of Raunch (Rex Reed's description of the current trend in bloody horror movies), then it must have been a raunchy afternoon when Ulli Lommel slipped into a New York City theater a whjle back to check out the audience reaction. He'd gone to see an R-rated horror flick and was surprised to find himself surrounded by a brood of kids 10 to 17, yelling and screaming for more death and violence on the screen. There I was, in a theater where no one under 17 was admitted without an adult, and they were going crazy. They were freaked out "Boogeyman," directed by VUI Lommel, opens at the Granada, Coliseum, Egyptian, Empire, Serramonte and Geneva Drive-In theaters Friday.

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