‘The Boogeyman’ Review: Stephen King’s Terrifying Short Story Gets Stale Translation
thewrap.comThe 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.
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