The Boogeyman is Rob Savage’s massive Hollywood break however falls flat (Image: twentieth Century Studios)
A supernatural horror as uninspired as its title. Like many children, seven-year-old Sawyer (Vivien Lyra Blair) is satisfied there’s a monster in her closet. And, guess what? There’s!
As a result of, within the wake of her mum’s sudden loss of life in a automobile crash, Sawyer’s fears take flesh.
Sawyer and her teenage sister (Yellowjackets’ Sophie Thatcher – who does her darnedest to avoid wasting the day and this film) thus spend a lot of the film being terrorised by a stonking nice grief metaphor who likes to toy with its prey…
The Boogeyman is predicated on a Stephen King brief story a couple of man (David Dastmalchian) who confesses to a therapist (Chris Messina) {that a} monster has murdered his kids.
It’s been made right into a film earlier than and the unoriginal spin it’s given right here is all of the extra disappointing for being the large Hollywood break for Rob Savage, a British director whose debut Zoom horror, Host, was probably the perfect movie of the Covid pandemic.
Initially, Savage rachets up the strain with clenched, claustrophobic depth, however the leap scares are commonplace, the creepy results are spinoff and the film’s ‘guidelines’ make infuriatingly little sense.
We’re repeatedly informed the monster is scared away by the sunshine – so, simply change on some lights, already!
Out Friday in cinemas.
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