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189 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 30, 2026 · How this works
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The Boogeyman is a 2023 horror film, directed by Rob Savage, starring Sophie Thatcher, Vivien Lyra Blair and Chris Messina.
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- posts span May 31, 2023 to Oct 29, 2026
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60 of 189 · most liked firstWatching The Boogeyman and was immediately taken out of the movie by this character’s off-brand huge ass AirPods
negative · AI labelView post →Wizardry and Hollywood The character is already in the cave When you enter the room, it's Texas Chainsaw Massacre The one you encounter on the one-way road is the Boogeyman I made this from memory youtu.be/FR3r0z3_oig?... The attack method is the same as in the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to Films 📚=🎞️ The Boogeyman (1973) by Stephen King is a short story adapted to film (2023). Rhe film is a sequel to the brief tragic tale. With overtones of absentee parenting, the film extends the threat as an ongoing curse that spreads with the telling of the tale. 👺😱🫥 #filmsky #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →Rise of the Guardians is an underrated masterpiece and probably DreamWorks' best cult film. Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and the Sandman call upon Jack Frost to defeat Pitch Black aka The Boogeyman. Based off the Guardians of Childhood series by William Joyce which are good kids books
neutral · AI labelView post →Last year, I had a great time watching Companion twice in the movie theater. Sophie Thatcher is a mastermind of horror movies since the Boogeyman four years ago. #Filmsky #Horrorsky #Moviesky #July
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm far more interested in that than another Batman movie. Let Batman be the Boogeyman and if you're REALLY feeling courageous, show how he stopped them from crossing some red line but utterly failed to rectify any problems they represent, and why they are an inevitability of what he protects.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Was that the Boogeyman?" #Halloween #Horror #Film #ToyPhotography 📼🔪🎃
neutral · AI labelView post →final #letterboxdfriday for september, my #lastfourwatched movies were The Boogeyman (2023) Blue Beetle (2023) A Page of Madness (1926) It’s a Summer Film! (2020)
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m up to four movies featuring surrogate mothers protecting a child from a light-fearing entity. • Darkness Falls • Don’t be Afraid of the Dark • Lights Out • The Boogeyman I’m not complaining; I enjoyed all of these films to varying degrees. It's just an interesting theme? Trope? #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Funny how David Dastmalchian is in 2 movies I've watched recently. First Late Night with the Devil and I literally just finished watching The Boogeyman from 2023. Small role in that, but it made me think he could be a good lead in a Silent Hill movie or something similar. 🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m watching The Boogeyman (2005) and so far it feels like a Final Destination movie in which nothing actually happens.
negative · AI labelView post →Not absolute favourites, but movies from each year that could use some more love: 1980 THE BOOGEYMAN 1981 NIGHTDREAMS 1982 THE LAST HORROR FILM 1983 THE DEADLY SPAWN 1984 KING DONG 1985 THE STRANGENESS 1986 LINK 1987 ROCK’N’ROLL NIGHTMARE 1988 THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW 1989 EYEWITNESS
neutral · AI labelView post →#Horror365Challenge 228/365 “The Boogeyman”(1980) Dir-Ulli Lommel A fun, but weird and confusing movie from the 80s. Another film looking to cash in on the success of “Halloween”
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a film that actually deserves discussion! I’ll start: Rob Savage's The Boogeyman
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie 37 - THE BOOGEYMAN (2023) Vibe & aesthetic are a throwback to Darkness Falls/The Ring era Nice creature design #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #horrorsky 🎥
positive · AI labelView post →Donald Trump is not the president Donald Trump is the Boogeyman and we all know what happens to the boogeyman at the end of the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →tonight's movie night with friends: THE BOOGEYMAN
neutral · AI labelView post →Now Streaming on Roku; Coming Soon to Major Digital Platforms Breaking Glass Pictures is thrilled to announce the release of EVIDENCE OF THE BOOGEYMAN, a chilling found-footage horror film now streaming on Roku and rolling out to additional major digital platforms soon.
neutral · AI labelView post →thelastdrivein.com/2025/10/10/a... A Trailer a Day Keeps the Boogeyman Away!
neutral · AI labelView post →easily the best written (and at times animated) 80s cartoon and a movie tie-in. as for episodes past s2 I consider worth watching, those are: The Boogeyman is back, The Grundel, Flipside, Standing Room Only, The Brooklyn Triangle and The Halloween Door.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Horror365Challenge #223 Revenge of the Boogeyman. This is a sequel for a movie I haven’t watched. It was fun. I enjoyed it’s silliness. I’ll watch the original soonish. Kids go to woods. Killer’s in woods. Our killer. After seeing A Breed Apart I thought this wasn’t as bad #Mutantfam
positive · AI labelView post →You know that movie The Boogeyman that came out last year? It should have been more like this movie. #FrightClub
neutral · AI labelView post →I was surprised by The Boogeyman. Fine performances and an emotionally resonant backstory that worked for me. Creepy, too, although I’m a horror movie lightweight. Pet Sematary: Bloodlines did not work for me. At all.
positive · AI labelView post →Film-wise: at 6.45pm, I, Robot on Film4. At 9pm, Sleepless In Seattle on Comedy Central, Van Helsing on Sky One or The World’s End on Film4. At 10pm, The Gentlemen on ITV4. At 10.50pm, Sudden Death on Legend. At 11pm, The Boogeyman on BBC2. At 1.25am, In The Earth on Film4 #telly
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie 153/100 Movie: The Boogeyman Director: Rob Savage #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days boxd.it/gUteTf
positive · AI labelView post →Stephen King’s Overlooked Horror Movie With Marvel-DC Star Finds New Streaming Home According to What’s On Netflix, The Boogeyman arrives on Netflix on October 5, 2026. Rob Savage directed the movie from a screenplay by Scott Beck. By Ojas Kulkarni www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/...
neutral · AI labelView post →We're continuing our @stephenking.bsky.social birthday month celebration with 2023's THE BOOGEYMAN - David Dastmalchian & Sophie Thatcher star! What are your thoughts on this film? watch our episode on youtube: youtu.be/QufQI_ffTaI?... or listen: hmsg.buzzsprout.com/104713/episo...
neutral · AI labelView post →Dan Trachtenberg (‘Predator: Badlands’) will direct ‘FREDDY THE 13TH,’ an animated horror-comedy for Paramount Animation. The film follows a family vacation that turns into a nightmare when fun-loving Uncle Freddy accidentally kills the Boogeyman and inherits his powers. (via Deadline)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boogeyman with Sophie Thatcher is good. Not the greatest horror movie but oof monster design was stellar.
positive · AI labelView post →New film reviews posted up on Letterboxd: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)★★★★½ The Boogeyman (1980)★★★½ Jeremiah Johnson (1972)★★★ Wonder Man (2026)(series)★★★★½ Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)★★★½ The Trilogy of Terror (1975)★★★★ Cellar Dweller (1988)★★★★ (1/2)
positive · AI labelView post →teeth. (Before you freak out organics have what's called baby teeth that /naturally/ fall out to make way for our adult teeth.) So in Rise of the Guardians these figures make up a team that protects children from bad guys like the Boogeyman who brings children nightmares. In this movie they try to
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm curious about this movie, especially as I like the director's other work The Boogeyman but the name makes me think Coraline I admit.
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★½ review of The Boogeyman boxd.it/7qKed1 Hello darkness, my old friend. A generic, but well acted, chiller that will have you wondering one thing: "Why won't they fix the MFing lights?!!!??" BOOM! Movie over! 😂 #filmsky #horrorsky 🎬🎞🎥📽
negative · AI labelView post →n(e)w: “The Boogeyman” Missed out on this one last year, heard it was a solid King adaptation! (But I see the film is yet another horror flick with low contrast and desat, I am so fucking ready for good light / shadow and colors that pop, not every horror movie needs this style, please Jesus God.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ulli Lommel’s The Devonsville Terror. Not a bad movie at all. I’ve grown quite fond of it during the years, and I think it deserves more respect. Same with The Boogeyman btw, a movie I kinda disliked at first but now feel its a damn nice little shocker.
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally watched The Boogeyman (the one based off King’s story). The film was okay, some genuinely creepy scenes, but what I liked the most was how defeating the entity was basically trial and error … they were just trying to survive the dark without a plan. If it bleeds, it can die.
neutral · AI labelView post →My October movie list, the Stephen King edition: Gerald’s Game*, directed by Mike Flanagan Doctor Sleep, Mike Flanagan The Shining, Stanley Kubrick Thinner, Tom Holland The Boogeyman*, Rob Savage 1922*, Zak Hilditch Children of the Corn*, Kurt Wimmer (* indicates first time watching.)
neutral · AI labelView post →On @horrormoviepodcast.bsky.social , @juliacmarchese.bsky.social & @theterigamble.bsky.social discuss The Boogeyman, continuing their Stephen King birthday month! An interesting challenge of a movie, take an 18 page short story (maybe my favourite from Night Shift) & expand it into a 98 min movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →But somehow, strangely, until now, the Republican audience has seen the same movie playing over and over again with a different actor playing the part of the Boogeyman and doesn’t recognize that it’s the same movie. But if the villain ends up helping people and the Republican heroes don’t …
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonights movie, The Boogeyman. Came up on my recommendations, looks like a decent horror.
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of The Boogeyman #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Fun Fact: the next film in the series, Return of the Boogeyman (1994), was the first movie distributed on DVD in the United States. Isn't that wild? Like Boogeyman 2, over half the runtime of Return of the Boogeyman is just clips from The Boogeyman (1980)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ahead of the release of his new book, You Can’t Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga – 13 Films and Counting, we spoke to prolific Irish author Wayne Byrne about his deep dive into the iconic slasher film series. www.filmireland.net/wayne-byrne-...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's been 2 years since they made The Boogeyman. One of Stephen King's supernatural horror movie.🚪😨😈 #TheBoogeyman #StephenKing #HorrorMovie #Anniversary #2ndAnniversary
neutral · AI labelView post →#Horror365Challenge 58/365: The Boogeyman (2023) I've actually been trying to get through Night Shift, so I knocked out the short story before watching the movie. As far as adaptation, not really great as they changed the direction quite a bit. OK watch, though.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Lawnmower Man, although maybe the less said of that, the better. The Boogeyman, recently? And I seem to recall Sometimes They Come Back got a film? (King gets adapted a lot because, at least for a long time, he would option things to new filmmakers/writers for $10.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Novel: IT Novella: Secret Window, Secret Garden Story: The Boogeyman Film: IT CHAPTER ONE Miniseries: Storm of the Century I had to just go all out there
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boogeyman Halloween movie day 15
neutral · AI labelView post →Film 30/61, The Boogeyman, released in 2023 and directed by Rob Savage. #NowWatching #61DaysofHalloween #MutantFam #Halloween 🎃
neutral · AI labelView post →THE BOOGEYMAN comes home this October and yeah, it’s the scariest horror movie I’ve seen this year so far (but we all know how pull quotes work lol).
positive · AI labelView post →The movie of The Mangler is hilariously awesome too, though it was panned and is generally considered bad. The movie of The Boogeyman from several years ago, on the other hand, is awful despite some nice monster design (spoiled via not-good CGI).
negative · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday, @stephenking.bsky.social! 🎂 We've been celebrating all month long by covering adaptations of his work & continue our party with 2023's THE BOOGEYMAN! What did you think of this film? Watch the episode: youtu.be/QufQI_ffTaI?... Or listen: hmsg.buzzsprout.com/104713/episo...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched John Wick!! I fuckin' believe that Keanu Reeves is the Boogeyman, this was lit!! Anyways, thinking about watching the second film... NOW!!!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Jesus. Fucking hell. I'm rewatching The Boogeyman (2023) and they just introduced the monster for the first time, and it legitimately scared the hell out of me. Chills down the spine, upsetting as hell. Really good movie. Genuinely this is a top 5 creature introduction scene for me.
positive · AI labelView post →Still holding out at #2 new release in horror movie books, but now READING THE BOOGEYMAN is the #6 bestseller in horror film books overall, and the #14 new release in film history/criticism books of ANY genre! A huge thanks to everyone for the support.
neutral · AI labelView post →We discuss the oddity of 1980's The Boogeyman. This weird little gem shifts gears and wilds out in all sorts of fun ways! Links below ⬇️ #moviepodcast #moviesky #podcast #boogeyman #supernatural
neutral · AI labelView post →#TonightsMovie part 2 is Rob Savage's The Boogeyman, from Stephen King's short story, and starring Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair, David Dastmalchian, Marin Ireland, Madison Hu, LisaGay Hamilton, and Michael Bekemeier Trailer youtu.be/cFqCmIU0-_M?... #31DaysOfHalloween
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie of the Day: Revenge of the Boogeyman (2025) * This film was released online in the US on March 1, 2025. * This was Erik Skybak’s second of only two films he’s directed thus far, the first having been Exorcism in Utero (2023).
neutral · AI labelView post →Was that the Boogeyman? A throwback to four years ago and my favorite slasher film tee. 🎃🔪
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 166 === Finishing up Night Shift’s “The Boogeyman” with Chat Sematary and the painful to watch short film adaptation from 1982. #NightShift #StephenKing (Creator has discontinued their account on Patreon)
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