Don't Look Under the Bed

TV Movie
1999
TV-PG
1h 40m

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Erin Chambers, Ty Hodges, and Jake Sakson in Don't Look Under the Bed (1999)

A teen enlists the help of an imaginary friend named Larry Houdini to deal with a prank-playing bogeyman, who's framing her for his dastardly deeds.A teen enlists the help of an imaginary friend named Larry Houdini to deal with a prank-playing bogeyman, who's framing her for his dastardly deeds.A teen enlists the help of an imaginary friend named Larry Houdini to deal with a prank-playing bogeyman, who's framing her for his dastardly deeds.

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6.6/10

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Awards
- 1 nomination

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Trivia
Disney Channel reportedly received complaints from parents, that this film was too dark and scary, for a younger demographic. It is now aired rarely, but is available digitally, via Amazon.com and Disney+ along with other classic Disney Channel Original Movies.

Goofs
During the opening scene, Frances Bacon McCausland describes Middleburg in the middle of the country, but if you look closely at the city background, you can obviously tell it's downtown Salt Lake City, Utah on the UTA Train Trax and in the background is the former First Security Bank skyscraper, and another building is Salt Lake City Hall Clock Tower. This 1999 Disney Channel movie was obviously filmed and located in Salt Lake City Utah and not in Middleburg Virigina.

Quotes
Larry Houdini: Fran, just because you're getting older doesn't mean you have to get old.

Connections
Featured in Disneycember: Don't Look Under the Bed (2018)

Soundtracks
Boogie Wonderland
Written by Jon Lind (as John Land) and Allee Willis
Performed by Earth Wind & Fire

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5/10

Childhood Memories

Erin Chambers and Ty Hodges star in this Disney feature film where young teen Chambers is haunted from her past by a childhood memory. Hodges is the boogeyman come to life.

According to Boogey legend an imaginary childhood friend should not be discarded so easily lest they become the feared boogeyman. So it was with Chambers's brother who lost his faith in the existence of imaginary friends during a serious illness. Now the friend has come to life and trying to reverse the curse.

Watching the film put me in mind of my niece when she was small. The elder of two sisters she had imaginary playmates, but she grew out of them after a fashion. Her younger sister never took up that particular fantasy though.

Chambers is way too old for the part she sure didn't look a convincing 14. That's the way it is, always casting people too old for teens in Hollywood. Still in her case she couldn't convince me she was a juvenile try as she may.

Don't Look Under The Bed is a charming fantasy which would have worked better with a real teen lead.