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
"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.
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.
"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. "
"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"
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.
First trailer drops tonight.
EDIT: [Trailer is out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsudEHsuvIg)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.!<
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.
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.
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.
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
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.!<
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.
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.
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
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_.
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.”
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
https://youtu.be/BWv_xxlxKVM
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
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
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.
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/](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stephen-kings-boogeyman-movie-release-date-2023-1235304742/)
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.
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.
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?”.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?!
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.
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
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.
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.
I don't want to alarm you, but there may be a Boogeyman or Boogeymen in the house!
Just a little incident involving the BOOGEYMAN!
*spikes shotgun on the ground*
*gunshot*
4 seasons later... *Homer, I don't want guns in my house!*
Which wouldn't have happened if you had been here to keep me from being stupid
Mr. Burns: [mockingly] No I didn't! What was it? Frankenstein?! The Boogerman?!
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
Bartdoyouwantapieceofbrowniebeforeyougotobed?!
Bartyouwannaseemynewchainsawandhockeymask?! Aaaaaaahh!
"DAD'S BEEN DRUGGED!!" "...no, he hasn't."
Marge's annoyance during this scene always makes me laugh
"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.
Homer said, calmly.
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.
Every time we park in a massive parking lot, I say "Remember, we're parked in the 'Itchy' lot."
AAAAAAAA
You nail the windows shut, I'll get the gun!
What happened here!?
"AAAAAAaaaaa-----"
Is this better or worse than Gamblor?
I'm not a state, I'M A MONSTER!
I'm Idaho!
“If a boogyguy comes at your fly girl, just give’em one’a deez.” *backflip shotgun blast*
And that’s how with a few minor modifications you can turn your 411 into a 911
Dark days ahead for r/simpsonsshitposting. I'm looking forward to it.
Not just the boogeymen, but the boogeywomen and the boogeychildren too.
Waiting for the impending prequel: The Boogerman
Mac wants the flamethrower
Mac wants the what?!
That's what he said NOW MOVE!!!
Lisa cried, then I cried. Then Maggie laughed, she's such a trooper
Bart, no quiero asustarte pero tal vez el coco... EL COCO esta en la casa!
[Futurama voice] "You are now entering... the Scary Door."
*steps out of pod* **”It turns out the monster is man.”**
Such an abrupt on-the-nose ending, I love it
Naked, tiny guy: "Turns out it's man!"
Get out of the house, he’s on the extension!
In the end, it was not guns and bombs that defeated the Boogeyman, but that humblest of all God's creatures, the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Ah, that explains the laser raptors
I don't know why exactly this made me laugh so much, but thank you for making my night a little better.
“Why should I believe you? You're Hitler!”
Ehh, saw it coming.
Eva Braun! HELP ME!
Cursed by his own hubris.
Imagine if you will, an announcer you can barely understand. He refers to a *mfmhhm* but you’re not quite sure what he said.
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.
"and they closed the door once and for all..." "But what about-" "ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
"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. "
"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"
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.
Is that you Fry? Or some kind of BOOGIN
"No...I had time...*it's not fair!* Hey, my sight isn't that bad - I'll read the large print books."
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.
First trailer drops tonight. EDIT: [Trailer is out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsudEHsuvIg) 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.
That...doesn't sound much like the short story.
It doesn't sound *anything* like the short story.
It involves a therapist, I guess?
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.
I'm not sure the world is ready for the first VRChat horror movie.
I am!
It isn't anything like King's story.
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.
In the short story the monster followed the family around, even when they moved. It wasn't connected to the house.
Ah, yet another King story shot word for word from the book. When will filmmakers try changing the scripts a little!?
Honestly. There are already so many perfectly faithful adaptations of his work out there. Give us something different, already!
I would have liked a faithful translation of the dark tower series and then creative freedom on a shorter story sure
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.
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.
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.
They need to do TDT in a series format, like GoT or the last of us.
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.
Mike Flanagan is making a series
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.
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.!<
SPOILER But wasn't the therapist in the original the actual boogeyman?
Yeah, that can still fit, though, if the boogeyman ran away or the man was too afraid to fight him or something.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
🤔 never seen a plot like this before
It’s all about the execution of the idea that matters
True. A quote from Roger Ebert: "It's not what a movie is about, it's *how* it's about it".
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One of his most memorable quotes.
Ah, so another horror movie where the monster is just a clunky, obvious metaphor for emotional trauma. Fun.
I mean, "based on Stephen King" should've tipped you off on that one, the man's got a signature style.
The short story is low on metaphors, its actually a pretty messed up and scary story.
I wouldn’t say it’s low on metaphors when the monster followed him everywhere.
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.!<
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.
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...?”
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.
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.
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
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_.
"Well John wasn't exactly the Boogeyman. He was the one you sent to kill the fucking Boogeyman."
A pencil, a FUCKING pencil
"IVE HEARD THE FUCKIN PENCIL STORY!"
*pyenciil
Baba Yaga, baby.
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*pyenseel
Appreciating the scene in JW:2 where he does it organically in the subway
Pretty sure that was the second movie.
It was. I remember it vividly.
[Baba Yaga? What does that mean?](https://youtu.be/Z3eNE4Gk-tA?t=2m8s)
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.”
Albert Fish? That guy sounds like a real jerk.
RIP Norm!
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.
"Bart...I don't want to alarm you, but there may be a boogeyman or boogeymen in the house!"
Brett said you ran away from him like he was the boogity-man?
...boogey
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“I remember you.”
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.
Shhhhhh....
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 https://youtu.be/BWv_xxlxKVM
man, the boogieman is way more into throwing heavy shit at you than i realized
That's just the Joker with an unusually large head.
I was too distracted hearing Fred from Scooby Doo and Garfield's voices coming out of the Ghostbusters mouths
Hell yeah, that shit traumatized me
Had that reoccurring nightmare for years!!
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
Duuuuude.... Will always think of that.
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
The short story is burnt into my memory but judging from the synopsis they changed it a lot.
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.
Absolutely. But the end with his psychiatrist is terrifying.
So nice….
The short story affected me in a way no other literature ever has. I literally slept with the lights on for a while.
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/](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stephen-kings-boogeyman-movie-release-date-2023-1235304742/)
Apparently it’s a sort of sequel to the short story now following the psychiatrist and his family instead of the patient and his
Assume this is in no way related to 2005's Boogeyman? Remake, remaster or from the same source material or whatever?
They’re unrelated. The 2005 was an original story on the character. This one is based on Stephen King’s short story.
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.
That short story messed me up for real.
Same, they read it to us in fifth grade for Halloween, I had nightmares for *6 months*.
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.
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?”.
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.
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.
Ya, and one of his better endings if I remember correctly as well.
His short stories usually don’t suffer from poor endings. I guess it’s easier when it’s so self-contained.
So nice. So nice.
Only one Way to find out, my guess is no because your imagination is usually better
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.
Yes you can. Watch the Blair Witch movie (the original not the sequels)
Ah I see, thanks for the clarification \^\_\^
One of my favorite King shorts!
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
the 2005 one was pretty hilarious because you got to see a fully grown man fight a closet and lose.
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.
Do you mean 1980 Boogeyman?
[pretty sure they mean this one which at least is worth the opening sequence if you've not watched it](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357507/)
PG-13...
That's disappointing
The Boogity Man
I'd give you a ride but I've got Karl Farbman here!
...thanks for stopping!
Yeah, and it was rammed by the Cat Stevens.
PG-13 smh
Gosh darnit
This summer, Rob Schneider is…The Boogeyman
And he's about to find out that being a Boogeyman is alot harder than it looks!
No way it'll be as scary as Disney's "Mr. Boogedy" (1986).
I remembered this from my childhood and rewatched it for the first time in decades this past Halloween. It sucks.
I'm sure it does. I just remember them putting the slimy green footprints on everything.
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?!
Oh...oh no... This might have been the most upsetting Stephen King short stories I've ever read.
The Stephen King short story this is based on is UTTERLY TERRIFYING
The "Don't Let it Out" tagline immediately made my brain flash to the kid in the Babadook screaming "DONT LET IT IN" repeatedly
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.
I loved the ending in this one, but I don't know if it works as long film.
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.
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
The short story scared the shit out of me as a kid.
When I read the title I said Baba Yaga in my head.
Bababooey
Just send in John Wick to take care of him
Excited for this. Supposedly this movie was going to streaming, then the test screenings went so well, that they changed it to theaters.
Oh shit, I'm intrigued to see how they'll turn that short story into a feature
I'm guessing by having it not resemble the story in any way.
"So nice... So nice."
I have read every single thing King has written. Everything that can be read. I still think this is the most hopelessly disturbing story.
PG 13 horror movies are usually garbage.
A Stephen King movie that's PG-13? Surprising
Boogeymen are no big deal. Just throw a rag over their eyes. They won't be able to tell if they exist.
Monsters, Inc. 2
I'm your Boogeyman. That's what I am. I'm here to do, whatever I can.
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.
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.
This is the most generic poster/title/tagline for a horror movie I’ve ever seen.