Boogeyman Director Wanted Horror Fans To Feel Like Anything Could Happen Anytime [Exclusive]

Savage knows how monster movies work and that most monsters, ghosts, vampires, etc. must operate according to their own internal logic and their own rules. The Boogeyman certainly has its parameters, but for much of the film, while the rules are still being established, it seemed like fear could come anywhere and at any time. Savage wanted this uncertainty to inform his entire film. He said:

"I wanted to make sure it was a movie for everyone, but it's also a movie for horror fans, and I wanted to make sure that every time a fan of horror could get ahead of me on where the scares are coming from, we had a way to catch them off guard I wanted it to feel like even in the dramatic scenes, the daytime scenes, they weren't not free to check their phones or make a cup of tea - that something might come looking for them."

It has seemed for a while that the protagonists' house might be haunted. A teenage girl (Sophie Thatcher), her little sister (Vivien Lyra Blair) and their father (Chris Messina) are all mourning the recent loss of the family matriarch when the Boogeyman begins to appear. He was brought into the house by one of Dad's patients - he's a shrink - and the monster seems to have found a new home. Does he like the house, or his simple proximity to human spirits? He always seems to move from house to house, though. Can he teleport? Are there multiple monsters? All these questions leave the audience uneasy.

Boogeyman Director Wanted Horror Fans To Feel Like Anything Could Happen Anytime [Exclusive]

Savage knows how monster movies work and that most monsters, ghosts, vampires, etc. must operate according to their own internal logic and their own rules. The Boogeyman certainly has its parameters, but for much of the film, while the rules are still being established, it seemed like fear could come anywhere and at any time. Savage wanted this uncertainty to inform his entire film. He said:

"I wanted to make sure it was a movie for everyone, but it's also a movie for horror fans, and I wanted to make sure that every time a fan of horror could get ahead of me on where the scares are coming from, we had a way to catch them off guard I wanted it to feel like even in the dramatic scenes, the daytime scenes, they weren't not free to check their phones or make a cup of tea - that something might come looking for them."

It has seemed for a while that the protagonists' house might be haunted. A teenage girl (Sophie Thatcher), her little sister (Vivien Lyra Blair) and their father (Chris Messina) are all mourning the recent loss of the family matriarch when the Boogeyman begins to appear. He was brought into the house by one of Dad's patients - he's a shrink - and the monster seems to have found a new home. Does he like the house, or his simple proximity to human spirits? He always seems to move from house to house, though. Can he teleport? Are there multiple monsters? All these questions leave the audience uneasy.

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