Mr Boogedy returns to Lucifer Falls

Press, 12 April 1988, Page 18

Mr Boogedy returns to Lucifer Falls

“Bride of Boogedy” is rated for parental guidance, but it is rather an odd mixture; it is clearly a children’s video that is a ghastly, ghostly encounter. The risk of nightmares among those aged under 10 would be high. "

It is a modern tale set in the New England town of Lucifer Falls, which this particular ghost, Mr Boogedy, has apparently haunted in an earlier film.

Now he has returned to reclaim his magic cloak, and he’ll have to fight a family of practical jokers who run a novelty ;gag business in the village. The problem with practical jokers is that it is practically impossibly to tell if they are possessed by evil spirits. | The other interesting factor is that in this) village, ghostly goings-on seem to be taken rather for granted. When: Bbo-

gedy perches J above the village square: during a carnival and begins to zap people with lurid green lightning bolts, someone simply moans, “He’s ruining everything!”

Ralph Masur plays the head of the Davis family, and Mimi Kennedy is. his wife, who the ghost will mistake for his long-lost love and attempt to take with him into the afterworld. i