Director Rob Savage and screenwriters Mark Heyman, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods open up Stephen King's taut, grim 1973 short story, and the end result is an unremarkable, woefully derivative adaptation.
) puts on a brave front as he sees patients in his home office and pushes the girls back into a school routine — where Sadie is unprepared for well-wishers or teasing — but it’s clear dad is in no shape to address his daughters’ or his own loss.paying attention to the girls, however, particularly Sawyer, who detects a menacing presence in the shadows and sleeps with a big lit ball that you’d have to say is more convenient toy for the director’s reveal-scares than a kid’s security object.
Familiarity doesn’t always preclude craftsmanship, and when “The Boogeyman” is in haunted-house mode, Savage and cinematographer Eli Born work the framing, the light sources and the shadows with admirable care and patience, even if the loudly scored jump shocks are perhaps one too many.
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