When will they ever make a good Stephen King adaptation? Cast: Sophie Thatcher, Vivien Lyra Blair, Chris Messina, David Dastmalchian, Mari...
When will they ever make a good Stephen King adaptation?
Cast:
Sophie Thatcher, Vivien Lyra Blair, Chris Messina, David Dastmalchian, Marin
Ireland
Rating:
1/5
Based
on the short story of the same name by Stephen King, The Boogeyman fails as a horror film, unable to pack in the requisite scares and
the punch.
There
have been good film adaptations of King's works like The Shining (though
Kubrick changed the entire story), Misery, It (not Chapter 2), and The Mist -
but this falls into the category of the bad ones based on King's works like The Dark Tower, Mr.
Harrigan's Phone and In The Tall Grass. Not only is the entire story changed, but even who the Boogeyman was tormenting is different.
The
Sawyer family consisting of Will, a therapist, and his two daughters high school
student Sadie and her younger sister Sawyer have still not gotten over the death
of their mother in an accident. One day a seemingly desperate patient
unexpectedly comes to their house seeking help and leaves behind a terrifying
supernatural entity that feasts on the suffering of its victims.
Director
Rob Savage forgets that he is making a horror film and thought that he could
add whatever he wanted to. The scares aren't scary or even thrilling, the high
school scenes are miserable, and the screenplay is trashy with average performances.
The
Boogeyman is a film that shouldn't have seen the light of day.
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