Sod it, just gonna talk about three of them at once.
One: A kid is in bed, strange things about in his room, his dad comes in to reassure him, dad gets pulled into the closet. Years later, he has a girlfriend and a good job and... his mother dies. This brings him back to town, meet an old friend, and he decides to stay at the house. As you could guess, this does not go well, and various people end up dying.
This is written by Epic Kripke, and sides more with the horror of the situation. We have a weird house where the guy ends up going through doors to places that shouldn't be connected, and jump about in time too. The eventual boogeyman is a bad CGI man, but Tim will get there. Features a cameo by Lucy Lawless!
Two: Twenty years previous, there was a Nightmare movie where a group of patients were at a hospital and got killed off one by one. And now we are in a hospital with a group of patients that get killed off one by one. However, in the last third of the movie, we switch from being a supernatural creature to a fairly standard slasher killer, and it's like Scream never happened to show how basic that was. We do get a connection to the previous movie where Tim went into a psychiatric ward thinking he was the Boogeyman and killed himself. A note which is repeated with someone else thinkings they the boogeyman.
This is written by Brian Sieve, and it's a definite change. Aside from the nature of the killer, this suddenly has a lot of blood and gore about the place. But it does feel a lot like Dream Warriors all over again, until we get the boring scraping of knife on the wall to show that it's just some guy. Xena connections continue with Renee O'Conner, and we get Tobin Bell as the lead doctor.
Three: The daughter of Tobin Bell's character is in college and is grieving her dad's death, and reads his journal about the boogeyman. This is a change up from the previous movie where instead of a hospital with people dying one by one, we get a college dorm where people die one by one. The nature of the boogeyman changes yet again, back to being supernatural, but this time is powered by the belief of people (back to channelling Freddy again). Sarah, the final girl, decides to take responsibility on herself rather than have people believe in the boogeyman, but this is a supernatural creature that ain't putting up with that.
Written again by Brian Sieve. We get blood and gore again, but as I say, the nature of the threat changes again. Keep it consistent, people! I prefer actual supernatural over slasher, so this is better than two, even if it is just a redress of the second one. No notable cameos.
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