The Boogeyman, is the main antagonist of the movie "Boogeyman". An entity that probably comes from the ancient legends of Mesopotamia, from the strange spirit that claimed souls to maintain the balance between good and evil.
Origin[]
During his childhood, 5-year-old Tim Jensen witnessed his father being killed by the Boogeyman, an evil entity that manifests itself through your fears, since then, he moved in with his uncle (his father's younger brother) had taken the precautions to ensure that the Boogeyman didn't catch him, so he decided to sleep on a mattress on the floor, removing all the closets in his house and keeping all his clothes neat in a dresser drawer.
Boogeyman (2005) []
20 years later, Tim got a very good job and a girlfriend, Jessica, with whom he has a stable relationship, and the people around him believe that he has a perfect life without worries; However, he lives in omission, because even tormented by the sinister memory of his childhood and has been frightening since childhood: unable to have a closet or an empty space, he has had to build a custom home in which he can feel more secure, but when he must travel home with his girlfriend to meet his in-laws. Exactly after the trip, Tim has a premonition in which his mother tells him to return to the family home, when he calls the hospital on the phone, he discovers that his mother has died, then he tells his problem to his girlfriend, who kindly suggests him go to a psychiatry, with the same man that Tim had consultations after a horrible event and there he discovers that one of the patients, a pre-adolescent, of unknown name, is threatened by the Boogeyman.
Ghosts of the past[]
Following a suggestion from his psychiatrist that returning to his old house to spend the night in that house would be a good idea, Tim returns to his old house, in which he relives the memories of his mother, who told his father that the Boogeyman does not exist and therefore cannot harm Tim, but he is attacked by the Boogeyman when he enters the one on the ground floor, but manages to escape and there he meets a girl in his wooden shed, called Franny, who wants to know if It is true that the Boogeyman, who murdered Tim's father.
Searching the cellar, she discovers a haunting archive of Lost People! Lists and documents left by Franny, and upon reviewing their records, she discovers a collection of missing children who were killed by the Boogeyman, Tim panics and tries to leave, but Jessica takes Tim out of the house and for one night. he runs a quiet motel, where she is killed by the Boogeyman, dragging her into the bathroom.
Tim returns to the bar for a drink and enters the bathroom, where he meets Jessica and realizes what has happened, and blindly stumbles into a closet, and then walks towards their family home. , like Kate, his friend, has returned home and, hearing the noises from the cupboards, was about to open the door herself.
"Now it's your turn"[]
Kate drags Tim back to the hotel, where the empty bathroom is found; this time with the blood on her side, Kate begins to think that Tim may have harmed Jessica; but Tim denies it and frustrated by Tim's refusal, he tells him to fix things, Kate believed Tim and states that the person Tim saw in his house was actually his father who maybe was really still alive, so Kate I call Tim's uncle to find him.
Tim returns home and meets Franny, once again, who leads him to a house full of proclamations that the Boogeyman describes, including a chair in the center of the room in front of a closet, Tim remembers this room, that it was the home of a doctor who everyone thought was crazy, Franny then reveals that she was one of the victims killed by the Boogeyman and she disappears, telling Tim to go to the place where it all started, then the Boogeyman pulls Tim through several Portals in time through the wardrobe, eventually bringing him to his childhood room, in which he smashes various toys which he uses to take shape, realizing that he was responsible for the creation of the Boogeyman.
With the Boogeyman destroyed, Tim and Kate's lives are safer, and on a morning of work Tim feels more confident that he has defeated his greatest fear, but later in Tim's old closet, the Boogeyman, all wounded are rebuilds slowly.
Trivia[]
- The first film was New Zealand and was filmed in New Zealand and Los Angeles, California, but its two sequels were clearly North American films and their stories take place in the United States of America.
- The Boogeyman served as inspiration to create "Coco", from the movie called "Sinister (2011)."
- He is considered one of the first Slasher of the new generation along with Jeremy Melton, Victor Crowley and Jeepers Creepers
- It was thought that for the official song of this film it would be the one of "Hush, Hush, Hush" of "Henry Hal," but this idea was discarded and it was used later for the film: "Sinestro (2011)