The Boogeyman

Dad never listens.

It has a really cool and universally relatable premise... But the rules are confusing and convoluted.

A pointless, misguided and totally incomprehensible waste of time, is yet another horror film that exists for the sole purpose of exploiting the endless desk-drawer doodlings of writer Stephen King.

It’s an effectively spooky horror film but a generic one.

There’s good, oftentimes scary stuff hiding in this film’s darkness, all of which helps make this summertime horror offering more treat than trick.

Represents a tremendous misstep, conflating King’s unsettling tale with generic horror tropes and a third act that feels like an Alien rip-off.

The Boogeyman shoots for younger movie goers, but I don't think it hits the bullseye.

The lowest common denominator of horror cinema is the film that goes “whisper whisper whisper BANG whisper BANG whisper whisper BANG BANG” then rolls a bunch of credits. Not credit, really. More like blame.

Honestly, if the screenwriters had just stuck with the original framework of the original short story, it wouldn’t be such a convoluted mess.

The lack of lore behind the ostensible antagonist leaves a gap in the film. All we know is that it doesn’t like light, it is a creature of darkness (metaphor overload is all we get).