‘The Boogeyman’ Review: Stephen King’s Terrifying Short Story Gets Stale Translation
25.05.2023 - 17:05
/ thewrap.com
The Boogeyman” is a very common childhood nightmare. He’s the reason we checked under our beds at night and made our parents triple check the closet. In 1973, Stephen King wrote a short story called “The Boogeyman” about a man who visits a therapist and explains that a monster has killed all of his children, one by one.
It’s a scary story, and there’s a reason why fifty years later filmmakers like Rob Savage (“Host”) are still interested in bringing it to the big screen.This new film stars Chris Messina (“Air”) as Will Harper, a therapist whose wife very recently died, leaving him alone in a house with lots of memories and two daughters, Sadie (Sophie Thatcher, “The Book of Boba Fett”) and Sawyer (Vivien Lyra Blair, “Kenobi”). But he doesn’t know how to raise them on his own. They’re both grieving young kids, and even though Will sends them to therapy he’s ignoring his own advice and refusing to talk about what he himself is feeling, with his children or anyone else.The specter of death was hanging over the Harper house before Lester Billings (David Dastmalchian, “The Suicide Squad”) came in with his stories about child murder and monsters.
But after that, the Harper family is properly infected. Lester brought with him a creature and that creature is now in their closets, in the shadows. It feeds on grief and it loves to toy with its food.Savage’s “The Boogeyman” adapts Stephen King’s short story, but that only takes about five minutes.
That said, they’re the scariest minutes in the movie, and David Dastmalchian is rivetingly haunted in that short, impactful span. However, after that Savage spends the rest of the movie doing his own riff on David F. Sandberg’s “Lights Out.” There’s a monster in the house, it only moves
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