Ooooh no ... there's scary things coming out of the closet again!

An excellent first five minutes of Boogeyman gets you on the edge of your seat, but you end up yearning for the same feeling of jaw-dropping tension in the rest of the film and never quite finding it.

Briefly, a young boy goes through a nightmarish experience and, yes, it's all to do with something nasty in the closet. Later, we see the boy as a young adult. He's lost his father by then and, when his mother dies, feels he must be brave and deal with her papers, returning to the house that contained so many scary moments for him as a child.

Will he be able to confront his demons, or will the boogeyman be there to scare him again? Director Stephen T Kay attempts to inject new life into the genre by taking a fairly standard set-up and giving it a Japanese horror sensibility, with little surprises you might not expect.

Unfortunately the result is too predictable and the film isn't as scary as it could have been. Full marks for the opening, however. It's a pity that the rest doesn't match up.