If the children's film "Monsters, Inc." were a horror movie, it would have been called "Boogeyman." Unlike this film, it remained a tale for children and visited the land of blockbuster success.

In "Boogeyman," it's a grown man who is afraid of his closet. Maybe you would be too if you witnessed your father sucked into the place that was supposed to house shirts and pants - not demons. The fact remains that if you were afraid of your closet, no one would think it was a good idea to make a movie about it. No one except for director Stephen T. Kay, that is.

The closet-fearing Tim ("7th Heaven's" Barry Watson) spends the first half of the film avoiding doors of any kind, but when he is forced to visit his girlfriend's parent's home, he must face new doors. Sound like a scary new twist? Right. Tim is visited by his mother in a dream or vision, we never really know, but it doesn't really matter as it has nothing to do with the plot. He goes to visit her, and she is dead. Tim decides to spend one night in his old house. A little girl comes to his mother's funeral and follows him around. She leaves her pack behind, which Tim finds to be full of missing persons photos. We discover that these are all children the "Boogeyman" has taken, and they appear around Tim as though he could save them. He can't.

When Tim discovers that the little girl was also taken by the "Boogeyman," she tells him that he must face it in the place where this all started—his childhood bedroom. When he finds that the closets are portals to other places in his life (I think), he sees his girlfriend and uncle battling with the demonic force. They seem to lose the battle, but we never see them again, so who knows. When Tim smashes his childhood toys the "Boogeyman" explodes, and Tim hits him with a baseball bat.

The film offers no answers to support its perplexing plot. Why can't Tim's father just come back to help him? Why does destroying toys kill the "Boogeyman"? Why did I go see this movie? Just when you think that this is all in Tim's head, that he is the "Boogeyman" and has killed all his family and friends, you learn that a bad CGI monster actually does live in Tim's closets. Luckily, all he had to do to kill it was hit it with a baseball bat. I wish I had thought to do that to myself before paying to see this film.