The Boogens

In the old "Newhart" TV show (1982-90), Peter Scolari, portraying a pretentious yuppie, kept asking his equally annoying girlfriend, portrayed by Julia Duffy, "When will we be going to see 'The Boogens?'" For almost thirty years, I have looked for that film, and finally decided it didn't exist. . . until last night.

Suddenly, just before midnight, on TCM, there it was. As you would assume, judging by the fifteen minutes I suffered through, "The Boogens" (1981) is awful. I suspect Scolari was friends with one or more of the young actors involved. I stopped watching before the characters encountered the tentacles referenced in the short Dish description.