They Actually Found a Way to Make the Boogeyman Not Scary

BUMP IN THE NIGHT

Credit where it’s due: It’s remarkable that they made “The Boogeyman” without a semblance of fight.

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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/20th Century Studios

Whether lurking under a child’s bed or hiding in their closet, the Boogeyman is the most generic and hackneyed of mythic monsters, and thus it makes depressing sense that The Boogeyman is a stale compilation of clichés without a unique bone in its rickety body.

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