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May 25, 2023 · Rob Savage's The Boogeyman mixes solid casting and scares with thin plotting and middling monster moves.
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By Matt Donato
Updated: Jun 1, 2023 4:25 pm
Posted: Jun 1, 2023 4:23 pm
The Boogeyman premieres in theaters on June 2, 2023
While Jason Voorhees, Ghostface, and Freddy Krueger have become icons of horror cinema, is there a more famous harbinger of dread than the vague concept of The Boogeyman? Children tucked under blankets shiver at the thought of this fable-like creature behind closet doors or slithering under bed frames; we all feared – or still fear – that Boogie bastard. Rob Savage's job as director of The Boogeyman is to maximize the simplest, most universal of after-dark horror stories from childhood, which he does well enough with a scare-packed albeit formulaic adaptation of Stephen King's short tale about shadow-dwelling demons. At its best The Boogeyman brings the goshdarn spookiness and serves as a reminder that, when done right, PG-13 horror can still be a terrifying experience that'll rattle even horror addicts.
Writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods pull from their horror-forward A Quiet Place scripts that focus on traumatized families fighting ferocious creatures, joining co-writer Mark Heyman to tell the tale of the fractured Harper clan's fight against an unsightly evil. Yellowjackets standout Sophie Thatcher stars as eldest daughter Sadie, who anchors The Boogeyman alongside teeny-tiny little sister Sawyer (played excellently by 10-year-old Vivien Lyra Blair). Thatcher and Blair embrace the unnatural terrors that spring from flung-open closet doors as disturbing figures scamper between patches of blackness, never underselling the powerless feeling of nostalgic childhood paranoias. Chris Messina grows a salt-and-pepper beard to play their psychologist father Will, but isn't much help as his imagination can't fathom a true-to-reality Boogeyman; Thatcher and Blair themselves gas up their Boogeyman foe's scare tactics scene after bloodcurdling scene.
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Then the finale hits, and The Boogeyman earns its special-effects applause as frightened kiddies wear flashing Christmas lights as armor against a nocturnal fiend that feels like it would be at home scaling caves in The Descent or evolving from A Quiet Place’s berserkers. There's a keen enough balance to withhold full-body reveals without shelving ...
The Boogeyman can be described the same way car salespeople might market their mid-range best sellers: sturdy, dependable, and efficient. "Like a rock," they'd repeat. Rob Savage once more proves that PG-13 ratings aren't shackles on filmmakers who want to send their audiences screaming in the other direction, since The Boogeyman is the scariest ho...
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May 25, 2023 · The scariest thing about The Boogeyman is how generic and uninspired this Stephen King adaptation really is.
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Jun 1, 2023 · The Boogeyman loses minimal steam between righteous scare sequences involving Sawyer's PlayStation gameplay as a light source or a psychologist's red cube that strobes slower by the...
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Jun 1, 2023 · The Boogeyman is a capable creepshow built for mass appeal that gets the job done because at the end of the day, scary is as scary does.
In Boogeyman you will play intrepid kids struggling with the classic nightmare: The Boogeyman. Nobody knows who he is and what he wants, but he certainly loves children who, however, do not intend to become a part of his dinner.
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Sep 3, 2023 · The Boogeyman attacks Sadie and Bethany cannot get the door to open. Sadie is livid when they are finally able to break through, slapping Natalie and reprimanding Bethany for concocting with the other girls.
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