Starring Barry Watson, better known as Matt Camden from the WB's "7th Heaven," this horror story succeeds to scare at times, but the overall effect of the movie fails to impress.

Director Stephen Kay's horror film focuses on terrifying closets and borrows styles from many successful horror flicks of the past, but the substance that made those flicks successful is lacking in Boogeyman.

Filled with perfectly timed thunder crashes and lightning strikes at climactic revelations, the dialogue falls short and the plot essentially boils down to a 90-minute session of watching dark closets and shadows.

Boogeyman is a typical horror story where a child goes through a traumatic event early in life, and it comes back to haunt him later in life.

Tim, played by Watson, sees his father taken away by a demon in the closet, only to be told for the next 15 years that his father left his family that night when he couldn't prove the truth.

Following his mother's funeral, Tim decides to return to his old house to face the demon of his past.

This is where the film ditches all logic and spins a mysterious ending almost impossible to follow. Tim struggles to determine if his demon of the past is real or a figment of his imagination.

As the typical horror story confrontation between the star and his nemesis wraps up the flick, the movie loses its steam.