‘boogey man‘, in theaters on June 2, is the latest adaptation of the prolific horror master’s work. King Stephen. And to stand out in an incredibly, and increasingly crowded field, the new movie needs to be something special.
Long in development (long enough that it was worked on when 20th Century Fox still had its own studio, only to be canceled and revived until now) Disney-owned 20th Century Studios), it’s unfortunate that this latest attempt at a horror story is a bit of a cheesy, cheap scare that draws more laughs than screams and some major logic problems.
“It’s not real. It’s not real. It’s not real.”
Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a tragic presence in their home and struggle… Read the plot
What happens in ‘Boogieman’?
‘The Boogeyman’ is adapted (‘by’a quiet placeScott Beck and Brian Woods, including his most recent workblack swanof Mark Heyman) from the King’s short story. Originally published in ‘Cavalier’ magazine in 1973, it was later collected in ‘Night Shift’ in 1978.
Focusing on Lester Billings, an alpha male in the 1970s who is traumatized by the death of his children –– at the hands (or claws) of what he believes to be a monstrous animal, it’s a fast-paced, brutal story with a twist, which the movie is based on. takes as then it expands.
Chris Messina Dr. Will Harper plays a therapist grieving his wife, who recently died in a car accident. He is raising daughter Sadi (Sophie Thatcher) and Sawyer (Vivienne Lyra Blair)
Lester Billings stumbles into Dr. Harper’s office (David Dastmalchian), who has a terrifying story to tell: his children are dead, and when people think he did it, they were actually killed by a mysterious shadow creature that lurked in the dark and was playing with him and his family.
Harper calls the authorities, but Billings is found to have committed suicide in a secluded room within the Harper house, further injuring the good doctor and his daughters.
But that’s just the beginning of their problems — as both Sadie and Sawyer start seeing strange things, Sawyer becomes convinced that he’s being haunted by the same creature that destroyed Billings’ life. But is it just a projection of their grief? And how Billings’ widow (Marine Ireland) make it timely?
Who else is in ‘The Boogeyman’?
There is also a cast Lysaghe Hamilton, Maddie Nichols, Madison WhoLacey Dover and Danielle Hagan.
Hope for ‘host’ director
A big plus for the film would seem to be the presence of a canny British director Rob Savagewho made a splash in 2020 with his creative, entertaining horror movie ‘the host‘ where a Zoom séance held between friends during lockdown goes supernaturally, bloody and horribly wrong.
Savage follows it up with DASHCAM, the story of a rude, opinionated live-streaming DJ who encounters something terrible when he offers an old lady a ride in his car. Both movies run entirely on computer (or phone) screens and are chillingly effective uses of that particular horror genre.
Yet given both the budget and the opportunity to expand beyond that, Savage fails here, let down by a corny script that has more tropes than story and more archetypes than characters.
Although Savage brings some level of artistry to it –– tilting camera shots, effective and evocative use of lighting in some scenes, and a genuine sense of initial unease –– it’s not enough to save a story that goes to ridiculous lengths to try and evoke some terror.
Messina and his younger co-stars do what they can to bring their characters to life (Blair, a veteran ofObi-Wan Kenobi‘ and ‘Yellowjackets’), Thatcher appropriately plays fear when needed, but that’s a lost cause in a film that’s more likely to cause laughter than a desire to find cover to hide under.
The movie also fails to follow its own internal logic; When Sawyer is introduced as a grieving young woman who sleeps with a variety of lights even before being haunted and hunted by the titular creatures, it doesn’t quite make sense that she would later find herself sitting alone in a dark room with only a handful of people. The light of a TV screen where he is playing a Playstation game to make him feel safe.
Then the usual horror movie conventions kick in for the 700th time –– the girls screaming and making noises while their dad skulks in another room, the characters notice creepy black tendrils entwined in a hallway and stairwell but decide to investigate anyway. And in a scene that could have come out of a horror spoof, Sadie is taken by a friend to a certain house she’s investigating, a graffitied man called a murderer and a mailbox lowered onto its pole by a vandal, only to ask Did, “Is this home”? Yes, young lady, we’re sure this is home.
It all builds to something increasingly silly and chaotic, with characters making stupid decisions when an obvious threat lurks, and the creature itself changing tactics midway through for no apparent reason. And don’t get us started on the therapist who decides that the best way to cure a traumatized child with darkness-related problems is to immediately plunge them into a dark room. The movie makes too many silly choices to be believable.
last thought
There are plenty of great Stephen King adaptations on the big and small screen. ‘The Boogeyman’, sorry to report, is not among them. It’s a nightmare that’s more likely to be hidden in a bargain bin than on someone’s must-rewatch list.
‘The Boogeyman’ is rated 3.5 out of 10 stars.
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‘The Boogeyman’ is produced by 21 Laps Entertainment, and 20th Century Studios. It is slated to release in theaters on June 2, 2023
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