Plot
Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.
Cast
Surprisingly other than David Dastmalchian who is in the film fleetingly I wasn't familiar with anybody.
Verdict
I'm a bit of a Stephen King fanboy, both books and movies. Though the movies are rarely faithful adaptations most are close enough to be very enjoyable and have that natural Stephen King feel about them. Yes there are exceptions, and yes this is one of them.
Boogeyman is the definition of generic, the definition of color by numbers, the definition of playing it safe.
What do I mean by that? I mean, there's no surprises. You'll have seen this before, every scene, the bog standard cgi creature, the cliches, the concept, everything.
I was never bored, it kept my attention and I used that attention to announce everything that was yet to transpire and called it accurately.
It's not that it's bad it's just offensively generic and that in turn makes it bad.
Rants
It's shocking how many Stephen King adaptations there have been, and the vast majority were not theatrical releases and many you may not even know are Kings and that's not even touching upon Nightmares & Dreamscapes. What frustrates me is all his books/short stories yet to be adapted yet we get remakes of existing adaptations such as Pet Semetary, IT, The Stand, Children of the Corn, Salems Lot, The Shining, Carrie, Firestarter etc. Give us new ones please!
Breakdown
Entirely recycled No surprises Plays it too safe.
Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.
Cast
Surprisingly other than David Dastmalchian who is in the film fleetingly I wasn't familiar with anybody.
Verdict
I'm a bit of a Stephen King fanboy, both books and movies. Though the movies are rarely faithful adaptations most are close enough to be very enjoyable and have that natural Stephen King feel about them. Yes there are exceptions, and yes this is one of them.
Boogeyman is the definition of generic, the definition of color by numbers, the definition of playing it safe.
What do I mean by that? I mean, there's no surprises. You'll have seen this before, every scene, the bog standard cgi creature, the cliches, the concept, everything.
I was never bored, it kept my attention and I used that attention to announce everything that was yet to transpire and called it accurately.
It's not that it's bad it's just offensively generic and that in turn makes it bad.
Rants
It's shocking how many Stephen King adaptations there have been, and the vast majority were not theatrical releases and many you may not even know are Kings and that's not even touching upon Nightmares & Dreamscapes. What frustrates me is all his books/short stories yet to be adapted yet we get remakes of existing adaptations such as Pet Semetary, IT, The Stand, Children of the Corn, Salems Lot, The Shining, Carrie, Firestarter etc. Give us new ones please!
Breakdown
Entirely recycled No surprises Plays it too safe.