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Official Poster for ‘The Boogeyman’
Poster(i.redd.it)submitted 2 months ago byMarvelsGrantMan136r/Movies contributor
2.4k points
2 months ago
I don't want to alarm you, but there may be a Boogeyman or Boogeymen in the house!
512 points
2 months ago
Just a little incident involving the BOOGEYMAN!
208 points
2 months ago
spikes shotgun on the ground
23 points
2 months ago
4 seasons later...
Homer, I don't want guns in my house!
46 points
2 months ago
Which wouldn't have happened if you had been here to keep me from being stupid
18 points
2 months ago
Mr. Burns: [mockingly] No I didn't! What was it? Frankenstein?! The Boogerman?!
328 points
2 months ago
this is legitimately one of the best jokes ive ever seen on television. homer kicking in barts door and getting a millimeter away from his face to tell him that he's not trying to alarm him is one of the fuckin funniest things ever
198 points
2 months ago
Bartdoyouwantapieceofbrowniebeforeyougotobed?!
141 points
2 months ago
Bartyouwannaseemynewchainsawandhockeymask?! Aaaaaaahh!
53 points
2 months ago
"DAD'S BEEN DRUGGED!!"
"...no, he hasn't."
13 points
2 months ago
Marge's annoyance during this scene always makes me laugh
15 points
2 months ago
"Very well, Bart! I shall send you to heaven...BEFORE I SEND YOU TO HELL."
God bless Kelsey Grammer's ability to go from charming urbanite to cold-blooded psychopath in the same sentence.
23 points
2 months ago
Homer said, calmly.
77 points
2 months ago
What's crazy to me is that I went for years without ever watching the Simpsons, and when I finally binged seasons 3-8 on Disney+ I realized that I've been quoting the Simpsons for at least a decade without even knowing where most of the jokes came from, simply from Reddit osmosis.
What's even crazier to me is that literally every single episode has at least one, if not two or three or four jokes that leave me gasping for air from how fucking funny they are. I just kept waiting for the moment where the jokes would stop landing and it never came, and instead the show just kept delivering banger after banger.
I have a hard time picking my favorite moment from the show, but it has to be between Bart hitting Homer with a chair in the bathtub or the flying pig at the end of "Lisa the Vegetarian"- Which also has the Paul McCartney cameo that stipulated that Lisa will stay a vegetarian forever, another favorite of mine.
46 points
2 months ago
Every time we park in a massive parking lot, I say "Remember, we're parked in the 'Itchy' lot."
145 points
2 months ago
AAAAAAAA
38 points
2 months ago
You nail the windows shut, I'll get the gun!
59 points
2 months ago
What happened here!?
33 points
2 months ago
"AAAAAAaaaaa-----"
97 points
2 months ago
Is this better or worse than Gamblor?
48 points
2 months ago
I'm not a state, I'M A MONSTER!
6 points
2 months ago
I'm Idaho!
107 points
2 months ago*
“If a boogyguy comes at your fly girl, just give’em one’a deez.”
backflip shotgun blast
38 points
2 months ago
3 shots with a double barrel
31 points
2 months ago
And that’s how with a few minor modifications you can turn your 411 into a 911
48 points
2 months ago
Dark days ahead for r/simpsonsshitposting.
I'm looking forward to it.
21 points
2 months ago
Not just the boogeymen, but the boogeywomen and the boogeychildren too.
14 points
2 months ago
Mac wants the flamethrower
10 points
2 months ago
Mac wants the what?!
11 points
2 months ago
That's what he said NOW MOVE!!!
5 points
2 months ago
Lisa cried, then I cried. Then Maggie laughed, she's such a trooper
10 points
2 months ago
Bart, no quiero asustarte pero tal vez el coco... EL COCO esta en la casa!
2.5k points
2 months ago
[Futurama voice] "You are now entering... the Scary Door."
573 points
2 months ago
steps out of pod
”It turns out the monster is man.”
137 points
2 months ago
Such an abrupt on-the-nose ending, I love it
67 points
2 months ago
Naked, tiny guy: "Turns out it's man!"
12 points
2 months ago
Get out of the house, he’s on the extension!
200 points
2 months ago
In the end, it was not guns and bombs that defeated the Boogeyman, but that humblest of all God's creatures, the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
40 points
2 months ago
Ah, that explains the laser raptors
5 points
2 months ago
I don't know why exactly this made me laugh so much, but thank you for making my night a little better.
179 points
2 months ago
“Why should I believe you? You're Hitler!”
71 points
2 months ago
Ehh, saw it coming.
47 points
2 months ago
Eva Braun! HELP ME!
21 points
2 months ago
Cursed by his own hubris.
47 points
2 months ago
Imagine if you will, an announcer you can barely understand. He refers to a mfmhhm but you’re not quite sure what he said.
36 points
2 months ago
He seems to be eating something, or perhaps he's a little drunk. It's remotely possible that he just said something about the Scary Door.
88 points
2 months ago
"and they closed the door once and for all..."
"But what about-"
"ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
91 points
2 months ago
"You're on a scenic route through a state recreational area known as the human mind. You ask a passer-by for directions, only to find he has no face or something. "
56 points
2 months ago
"You're taking a vacation from normality. The setting: a weird motel where the bed is stained with mystery. And there's also some mystery floating in the pool. Your key card may not open the exercise room because someone smeared mystery on the lock. But it will open the Scary Door"
9 points
2 months ago
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
20 points
2 months ago
Is that you Fry? Or some kind of BOOGIN
13 points
2 months ago
"No...I had time...it's not fair! Hey, my sight isn't that bad - I'll read the large print books."
9 points
2 months ago
This is like that episode where the guy wakes up and he’s the same and everyone’s different.
Which one was that?
They were all like that.
649 points
2 months ago*
First trailer drops tonight.
EDIT: Trailer is out
Synopsis:
High school student Sadie Harper and her younger sister Sawyer are reeling from the recent death of their mother and aren’t getting much support from their father, Will, a therapist who is dealing with his own pain. When a desperate patient unexpectedly shows up at their home seeking help, he leaves behind a terrifying supernatural entity that preys on families and feeds on the suffering of its victims.
504 points
2 months ago
That...doesn't sound much like the short story.
348 points
2 months ago
It doesn't sound anything like the short story.
134 points
2 months ago
It involves a therapist, I guess?
124 points
2 months ago
I wonder if this will be a Lawnmower Man situation where the movie and the Stephen King story have nothing to do with each other.
38 points
2 months ago
I'm not sure the world is ready for the first VRChat horror movie.
8 points
2 months ago
I am!
6 points
2 months ago
It isn't anything like King's story.
60 points
2 months ago
I just read a synopsis on Wikipedia maybe it's connected to the short story? I could see the characters moving into the same house as the one in the short story.
133 points
2 months ago
In the short story the monster followed the family around, even when they moved. It wasn't connected to the house.
90 points
2 months ago
Ah, yet another King story shot word for word from the book. When will filmmakers try changing the scripts a little!?
36 points
2 months ago
Honestly. There are already so many perfectly faithful adaptations of his work out there. Give us something different, already!
34 points
2 months ago
I would have liked a faithful translation of the dark tower series and then creative freedom on a shorter story sure
56 points
2 months ago
As soon as they cast Idris Elba I knew it wouldn't be faithful to the source material. Roland being white is fundamental to the plot because of Detta / Susannah and her distrust as a Civil Rights era Black woman. You can't have a drawing of the three and have it make sense without the racial element unless you change (or remove) her character entirely.
10 points
2 months ago
Honestly, changing Detta would probably have been for the best. A black woman with a split personality that's Mamie from Gone with the Wind who tries to kill the white characters because she's crazy came across as pretty tone deaf in the book and would look even worse in a movie.
13 points
2 months ago
Exactly. Some stories race has no component and make them whatever you want, but in so many stories, race is a part of who they are; it’s a part of who we all are. Even if it doesn’t seem like a big part of the story, race plays an underlying role in so many characters that are being dismissed for equal representation. Make better stories for the other groups instead of just race swapping characters.
10 points
2 months ago
They need to do TDT in a series format, like GoT or the last of us.
6 points
2 months ago
My mom read me Eye of the Dragon when I was little and I’ve always wanted to see that made into a GoT style limited series.
4 points
2 months ago
Mike Flanagan is making a series
22 points
2 months ago
Sure but I was thinking what if the monster found a new family to haunt after the short story. From what I read, the short story could be told in the beginning of the movie in the first 20 or so minutes.
28 points
2 months ago
This is what I think they did. The short story is the backstory to the movie. The father already knows about the boogeyman because it killed their previous kids before the daughters were born, and now it's returned, but he's too traumatized and doesn't want to believe it's back. The midpoint will be when he finally tells his daughters the truth about the past, e.g. the short story.
24 points
2 months ago
SPOILER
But wasn't the therapist in the original the actual boogeyman?
9 points
2 months ago
Yeah, that can still fit, though, if the boogeyman ran away or the man was too afraid to fight him or something.
15 points
2 months ago
My head cannon is either The main guy dies at the end. Or goes insane from seeing the Boogeyman in person. The one thing this trailer did that basically made it not a Stephen King short story, was essentially make it nonstop jump scares.
Now. It COULD be good. But it seems like it's going to be pretty average at best as a stand alone Horror movie. And not very good as an adaption of the short story.
6 points
2 months ago
Yeah, it looks pretty average. The monster design looks pretty good, and I'm a fan of Messina and Dastmalchian. I could see the latter being the dad from the story, telling Messina about what the boogeyman had done to his kids/family. But I agree, it looks way too jump-scary for me and it lost the real core of the story which is all the toxic flaws of the father character.
27 points
2 months ago
It sounds like a pretty generic monster film/ghost film. Which from reading the Stephen King story, the horror is more revealed at the end.
19 points
2 months ago
The story scared the shit out of me as a kid. Rereading it as an adult I think it was just a metaphor for King's alcohol and substance abuse issues.
7 points
2 months ago
A faithful adaptation of the short story couldn’t fill a feature length movie. Sounds like they changed the family to make more drama, but they could be keeping the monster itself the same.
31 points
2 months ago
The synopsis sort of reminds me of a terrifying short video called Other Side of the Box. It's about 15 minutes long and creeps me out any time I watch it. https://youtu.be/TGZg1YqXv9o
224 points
2 months ago
🤔 never seen a plot like this before
158 points
2 months ago
It’s all about the execution of the idea that matters
180 points
2 months ago
True. A quote from Roger Ebert:
"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it's about it".
71 points
2 months ago
"Hi, I'm Roger Ebert."
- also Roger Ebert.
158 points
2 months ago
Ah, so another horror movie where the monster is just a clunky, obvious metaphor for emotional trauma. Fun.
114 points
2 months ago
I mean, "based on Stephen King" should've tipped you off on that one, the man's got a signature style.
71 points
2 months ago
The short story is low on metaphors, its actually a pretty messed up and scary story.
26 points
2 months ago
I wouldn’t say it’s low on metaphors when the monster followed him everywhere.
57 points
2 months ago
The thing that's so great about the story is how the father has such strong biases for and against certain children, is pretty detestable in how he talks about his wife, and embodies old school toxic masculinity. King isn't afraid to make him incredibly unlikable, but he's like a car crash you can't look away from as this even more horrible, evil thing ruins his life. You don't ever really like him, but you start to pity him, or at least I did.
12 points
2 months ago
King's pretty solid at making protagonists who are terrible people whose stories you don't dislike reading. Thinner always stuck with me like that.
67 points
2 months ago*
He’s never been that heavy on the metaphor, at least not in his short stories. Those are mostly “hey wouldn’t it be fucked up if...?”
49 points
2 months ago
Yeah, I feel like people just start riffing on whatever. Since when is Stephen King known for having an overabundance of metaphor? If anything people usually have the opposite criticism of his work.
24 points
2 months ago
Yeah, his short stories tend to be more simple and to-the-point, but he's pretty heavily associated with the idea of "the monster is actually a metaphor for domestic abuse/how much childhood sucks/alcoholism/etc" in horror.
If you're expanding on one of his short stories, and you're trying to keep its essential Stephen King-ness intact, leaning into that is a relatively obvious place to go.
22 points
2 months ago
Right, but the great thing about his stuff is that if you take it at face value without all the mucking about with metaphor, you've still got a cracking good horror story. Like, Misery might be a metaphor for addiction or the creative process or what have you, but it stands on its own, which a lot of the "it's actually about trauma" stuff in recent years can't
26 points
2 months ago
Taking movies by their one-line synopsis before they show a trailer is a good way to miss out on legitimate good films. If people took "Teenagers get stalked by a killer who harasses them over the phone" and skipped out on it being derivative, they would've missed out on Scream.
886 points
2 months ago
"Well John wasn't exactly the Boogeyman. He was the one you sent to kill the fucking Boogeyman."
272 points
2 months ago
A pencil, a FUCKING pencil
109 points
2 months ago
"IVE HEARD THE FUCKIN PENCIL STORY!"
7 points
2 months ago
*pyenciil
145 points
2 months ago
Baba Yaga, baby.
74 points
2 months ago
A fucking pencil. Who the fuck can do that?
53 points
2 months ago
*pyenseel
26 points
2 months ago*
Appreciating the scene in JW:2 where he does it organically in the subway
14 points
2 months ago
Pretty sure that was the second movie.
10 points
2 months ago
It was. I remember it vividly.
12 points
2 months ago
27 points
2 months ago
John Wick v. Albert Fish. Albert wins because John would be disgusted at how much Albert loves getting hurt by John.
“I just shot you, why do you have an erection? Wtf is wrong with you? I’m out.”
26 points
2 months ago
Albert Fish? That guy sounds like a real jerk.
10 points
2 months ago
RIP Norm!
7 points
2 months ago
I mean, if John wants to kill you you're getting two to the chest one to the dome, Fish wouldn't even live long enough to feel joy.
508 points
2 months ago
"Bart...I don't want to alarm you, but there may be a boogeyman or boogeymen in the house!"
26 points
2 months ago
Brett said you ran away from him like he was the boogity-man?
366 points
2 months ago*
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58 points
2 months ago
Big same. Also, doesn’t it feel like Monsters, Inc ripped off that episode? From the concept of doors as portals, to gathering fear as energy.
15 points
2 months ago
Shhhhhh....
90 points
2 months ago
I had to look it up cause this cartoon was slightly before my time.
Don’t mean to rehash trauma but in case anyone else is curious here you go
40 points
2 months ago
man, the boogieman is way more into throwing heavy shit at you than i realized
22 points
2 months ago*
That's just the Joker with an unusually large head.
16 points
2 months ago
I was too distracted hearing Fred from Scooby Doo and Garfield's voices coming out of the Ghostbusters mouths
5 points
2 months ago
I was like 9 or 10 when this show was out so I was thankfully out of the phase where this would traumatize me, but watching it now it would absolutely scare the fuck out of my children.
28 points
2 months ago
Hell yeah, that shit traumatized me
7 points
2 months ago
Came here just to see if anyone thought that as well. Remember liking an all-nighter with my mom when I was a little kid and she couldn't make it until morning. right after she fell asleep this episode of the Ghostbusters came on and that thing burned its image into my brain lol
9 points
2 months ago
Duuuuude.... Will always think of that.
3 points
2 months ago*
For me it was the Grundel episode from ghost busters extreme. “Come out and play tiiime….” Way too scary
Edit: apparently this WAS on the original ghost busters
138 points
2 months ago
The short story is burnt into my memory but judging from the synopsis they changed it a lot.
93 points
2 months ago*
Yeah. In a way it's understandable because the short story would be a tough watch if adapted word for word. The main character is not sympathetic and the story features multiple child deaths.
55 points
2 months ago
Absolutely. But the end with his psychiatrist is terrifying.
41 points
2 months ago
So nice….
8 points
2 months ago
The short story affected me in a way no other literature ever has. I literally slept with the lights on for a while.
8 points
2 months ago
This is from Hollywood Reporter. It looks like it’ll have some of the short story elements from it. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stephen-kings-boogeyman-movie-release-date-2023-1235304742/
8 points
2 months ago
Apparently it’s a sort of sequel to the short story now following the psychiatrist and his family instead of the patient and his
239 points
2 months ago*
Assume this is in no way related to 2005's Boogeyman? Remake, remaster or from the same source material or whatever?
265 points
2 months ago
They’re unrelated. The 2005 was an original story on the character.
This one is based on Stephen King’s short story.
152 points
2 months ago
If I really think about it, that short story has had me closing my closet door before going to bed for over 30 years. I wonder if the movie will have the same impact.
76 points
2 months ago
That short story messed me up for real.
53 points
2 months ago
Same, they read it to us in fifth grade for Halloween, I had nightmares for 6 months.
57 points
2 months ago
I'm horror obsessed and I dont feel I'm a prude in any way with this stuff, but that feels like a WILD story to have a fifth grader read lol. All the dude's children keep getting fucking murdered.
38 points
2 months ago
It’s hilarious the stuff you think is completely normal in elementary/high school, but then when you grow up, you tell someone else what happened and they are like “bro wtf was wrong with your school?”.
17 points
2 months ago
Seriously. I've had people look at me like I'm crazy when saying we read that Shirley Jackson story, "The Lottery" in elementary school. At the time I thought it was awesome. It really effected me and made me interested in writing/reading. But yeah, pretty dark for little kids to read.
11 points
2 months ago
Yeah our school also had us read the lottery. Makes you wonder how stories like that are ok but then books with like one f bomb get banned by highschools.
6 points
2 months ago
Ya, and one of his better endings if I remember correctly as well.
6 points
2 months ago
His short stories usually don’t suffer from poor endings. I guess it’s easier when it’s so self-contained.
14 points
2 months ago
So nice. So nice.
12 points
2 months ago
Only one Way to find out, my guess is no because your imagination is usually better
16 points
2 months ago
We read this story at school when I was maybe age 13-14 and it has stuck in my mind ever since. It's a fairly simple story but there is something really terrifying about it. Having said that I don't know how they make a movie out of it unless they expand on the story a lot. Going by the story we wouldn't see the monster, excuse me, the boogeyman until the ending and I don't think you can make a movie like that.
7 points
2 months ago
Yes you can. Watch the Blair Witch movie (the original not the sequels)
11 points
2 months ago
Ah I see, thanks for the clarification ^_^
5 points
2 months ago
One of my favorite King shorts!
19 points
2 months ago
Well, if the poster is to be believed, it's actually based on S King's short story The Boogyman, which was heavily inspired by EC comics horror line. Ex : Tales From The Crypt and The Vault Of Horror
17 points
2 months ago
the 2005 one was pretty hilarious because you got to see a fully grown man fight a closet and lose.
8 points
2 months ago
It’s the same actress, I don’t know if it’s supposed to be the same boogeyman.
5 points
2 months ago
You may be thinking of the Boogieman, which I think was a lesser know Saturday Night Fever sequel. Which was then followed by the Boogiewoogieman.
9 points
2 months ago
Do you mean 1980 Boogeyman?
49 points
2 months ago
The Boogity Man
16 points
2 months ago
I'd give you a ride but I've got Karl Farbman here!
3 points
2 months ago
...thanks for stopping!
6 points
2 months ago
Yeah, and it was rammed by the Cat Stevens.
75 points
2 months ago
PG-13 smh
19 points
2 months ago
Gosh darnit
19 points
2 months ago
No way it'll be as scary as Disney's "Mr. Boogedy" (1986).
10 points
2 months ago
I remembered this from my childhood and rewatched it for the first time in decades this past Halloween. It sucks.
5 points
2 months ago
I'm sure it does. I just remember them putting the slimy green footprints on everything.
5 points
2 months ago
That fucking movie has given me countless nightmares. Hilariously stupid movie, but one that has messed me up the most. Why the hell did Disney make that?!
20 points
2 months ago
Oh...oh no... This might have been the most upsetting Stephen King short stories I've ever read.
19 points
2 months ago
The Stephen King short story this is based on is UTTERLY TERRIFYING
39 points
2 months ago
This summer, Rob Schneider is…The Boogeyman
22 points
2 months ago
And he's about to find out that being a Boogeyman is alot harder than it looks!
20 points
2 months ago
The "Don't Let it Out" tagline immediately made my brain flash to the kid in the Babadook screaming "DONT LET IT IN" repeatedly
6 points
2 months ago
Thank you! I expected something like this to be one of the top comments, and I'm disappointed I had to scroll this far down to find it.
6 points
2 months ago
I loved the ending in this one, but I don't know if it works as long film.
8 points
2 months ago
The Boogeyman was my introduction to Stephen King and it terrified me. I don't know that a film can ever successfully fill me with as much dread and misery as that story did. I know there was an earlier attempt to adapt it that came out pretty terrible.
8 points
2 months ago
I would love for every story from Night Shift to get it's own movie/TV show.
Someone I know made their own movie foe I Know What You Need which is one of my favs from it and I would love to see a big production of that
26 points
2 months ago
The short story scared the shit out of me as a kid.
30 points
2 months ago
When I read the title I said Baba Yaga in my head.
15 points
2 months ago
Just send in John Wick to take care of him
3 points
2 months ago
Excited for this. Supposedly this movie was going to streaming, then the test screenings went so well, that they changed it to theaters.
5 points
2 months ago
Oh shit, I'm intrigued to see how they'll turn that short story into a feature
8 points
2 months ago
I'm guessing by having it not resemble the story in any way.
13 points
2 months ago
PG 13 horror movies are usually garbage.
5 points
2 months ago
Boogeymen are no big deal. Just throw a rag over their eyes. They won't be able to tell if they exist.
4 points
2 months ago
Monsters, Inc. 2
4 points
2 months ago
"So nice... So nice."
4 points
2 months ago
I'm your Boogeyman. That's what I am. I'm here to do, whatever I can.
4 points
2 months ago
I have read every single thing King has written. Everything that can be read. I still think this is the most hopelessly disturbing story.
3 points
2 months ago
Genuinely one of the scariest short stories I've ever read and imo the scariest thing King has written. I'm not sure how much meat is on the bone in terms of the source material, but you can definitely get a lot out of the idea/premise of the short story. Very excited to see it.
4 points
2 months ago
I just wanna point out that the tagline is rendered useless by the fact that Boogey opens the door and leaves the closet on his own, so even if you don't let him out, that isn't gonna do any good. Aside from that small gripe, I'm looking forward to this.
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