The Boogeyman

The Boogeyman

Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it’s too late.

  • Released: 2023-06-01
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Horror, Mystery
  • Stars: Mabel Tyler, Maddie Nichols, Chris Messina, David Dastmalchian, Sophie Thatcher, LisaGay Hamilton, Vivien Lyra Blair, Madison Hu, Marin Ireland, Leeann Ross, Shauna Rappold, Cristala Carter, Shayla Bagir, Han Soto, Seylan Baxter, Aadyn Encalarde, Noah Brand, Maisie Bogert, Rio Sarah Machado, Ellie Bogert
  • Director: Rob Savage
 Comments
  • mahrukhalizai - 25 May 2024
    A great jump scare!
    This is a great horror movie with the wrong title which makes it sound childish-but if you're looking for a classic horror movie for pure entertainment, this is it! Lots of good jump scares & peep through your fingers moments! The actual boogeyman you don't get to see much of, it's all about the imagination until the end which makes it even better. When we first started the movie, we were expecting some childish story line but were very pleasantly surprised. If you're expecting an intellectual horror where you want to analyse each character & moment (what's the point?! 🙄) this is not it for you.
  • jovansmoot - 1 February 2024
    Not 'saw' so much as 'squinted'...
    I probably would have liked this film...if I could have seen it.

    Look, I know horror movies rely on darkness, and that it's necessary sometimes. That is one thing this movie did right - kept the titular creature mostly out of sight. Nothing is less scary than too much CGI.

    However, when the majority of the film is dark to the extent that you can barely see anything, I find I'm too hacked off to be scared.

    That's a shame, because as far as I could make out, the acting was decent, as were the script and story (hit or miss when it comes to Stephen King adaptations). A widowed father, a shrink, takes a walk-in who tells him a harrowing tale of kids dying at the hands of something supernatural, after which his own daughters start to experience spooky shenanigans.

    There is the old trope of the parent taking far too long to believe their offspring, and a house in which any given light source only affects about a six inch circle around itself, but I think these would have been minor irritants if the filmmakers had considered that their audience might like to occasionally be able to work out what's happening on screen.

    As it is, this was a semi-decent movie which had the potential to be better.
  • groundzero-273-397110 - 31 December 2023
    Turn on some lights...
    The Boogeyman didn't scare me that much. There were one or two scenes that scared me a little. It didn't feel like a PG-13 movie. So of all the PG-13 horror movies, The Boogeyman is probably the "scariest" I've seen.

    The story is not that original, but still okay. The acting is also okay, but they failed a bit in conveying real fear. The characters act really stupid most of the movie. If it's a monster that doesn't want to be in the light, why on earth don't you turn on some lights? They don't even try. It would have been a different matter if they at least tried to have lamps and stay in the light, and then the monster destroys the lamps and creates darkness. That would have been better writing.

    Sawyer, the young girl, who has seen the monster several times, still chooses to sit in the dark and play video games. Why? As Sawyer sat in the dark playing video games, she was thrown around the room by The Boogeyman. Sadie and their dad drove Sawyer to the hospital. When Sawyer wakes up in the hospital, she just wants to go home. WHY? What child in their right mind would want to go back home to a house where a monster has just tried to kill you?

    Sadie, the older girl, has seen a woman shoot the monster several times with a shotgun, and it didn't die. When Sadie later goes down to the basement to save her father, she chooses to equip herself with a hockey stick? She goes down into a dark basement with a hockey stick... The switches for the lights in the house never seem to work, but when they go down into the basement, Sawyer wraps herself in a string of Christmas tree lights, and THAT has power... But nothing else, right? I sat through the whole movie going "Why doesn't anyone put on a headlamp or carry a flashlight or SOMETHING like that?!" When they go down to the basement at the END of the movie, Sadie finally takes out the phone and turns on the light. Finally. But no, she uses it for a few seconds, and that's it. The characters are so stupid and behave illogically. The part about the mother being with them and helping out at the end with the lighter, and making the flame of the lighter move to the left, as Sadie asked for before, was just predictable, unnecessary, and boring. At least that is my opinion.

    Very poorly written in several places. Still an average movie for being PG-13.