IT’S SLIME TIME! FUNGUS THE BOGEYMAN IS BACK … AND HE’S A FUN GUY!!
05/10/05
Pick out this bogeylicious 2-Disc Special Extended Edition DVD from Abbey Home Media this October. Bogey Pickings include: exclusive behind-the-scenes interviews with cast and crew plus an unseen music video from Mould titled “How’s It Hangin’ Bogeyboy”!
Abbey Home Media presents Fungus, the boil inducing Bogeyman, in a 2-Disc Special Extended Edition of the hugely popular, award-winning, 3-part television series, transmitted on BBC1 last winter. Fungus the Bogeyman is the star of one of the best-loved books from world-renowned author Raymond Briggs (Father Christmas, The Snowman, When The Wind Blows), and star of the number one kids television show (for ages 4-15) in 2004 – with episode one peaking at 5.3 million viewers, source BARB.
Releasing on 31st October 2005, this extended DVD features the comic detail that made the original book so revoltingly popular. This technically groundbreaking drama stars Martin Clunes (Men Behaving Badly, Doc Martin) and Fay Ripley (Cold Feet) as George and Jane White, whose daughter Jessica becomes trapped in Bogeydom, a damp and dirty underground world, home to the Bogeymen. It combines live action drama with computer-generated imagery in a way that has before only ever been seen in major feature films.
Take a journey into the dank and sludge filled world of Fungus The Bogeyman and meet his family along the way - his beloved wife Mildew, ‘the most foul and malodorous Bogeywoman a Bogey could ever hope to meet’, his rebellious, deodorant-using son Mould and his daughter Mucus, stinking, putrid and repulsive - a perfect Bogey girl.
Everyday Fungus the Bogeyman ventures “up top” on his Bogeybike, through the dripping tunnels of Bogeydom, to scare “Drycleaners” (a Bogey’s name for humans). Unfortunately, one adventure backfires, creating the Bogeypeoples’ worst nightmare – a Drycleaner has discovered their existence!
On the Special 2-Disc Extended Edition DVD, you can catch a very informative ‘behind-the-scenes’ glimpse of how the series was brought to life, through fantastic new and exclusive interviews with the cast and crew. If you want to know more about how to get into acting, composing, the mechanics of how motion-capture works and how they created the Bogeymen characters using CGI – you’ll find all this plus more in these great DVD extras!
You can also join Mould and friends, and sing along to his great new song – “How’s It Hangin’ Bogeyboy”!
The Fungus the Bogeyman series was produced by Indie Kids and Galafilm, based on a screenplay by BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Mark Haddon (best-selling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time), and was directed by Stuart Orme (The Lost World, Goodbye Mr Chips).
Repulsive yet compulsive viewing, Fungus The Bogeyman: 2-Disc Special Extended Edition DVD is guaranteed to be a Halloween treat for the whole family!
Fungus the Bogeyman will also be available as single DVD release at the special RRP of £9.99.
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