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| Paste MagazineMatthew JacksonEven when you might want more from its plot, and even when it’s sticking to quiet character drama over all-out monster assaults, The Boogeyman thrives on the implied thing that’s lurking in every corner, which makes it a very effective, intimate creepshow. |
| San Francisco ChronicleAdam GrahamWhile it plays with familiar themes, The Boogeyman is a step up from many modern mainstream horror titles. It’s a thoughtful, organic piece of filmmaking that just happens to have a monster in the middle. |
| The A.V. ClubLeigh MonsonThese are jump scares done right, where the struggle to see what’s there is much more effective than any cheap lurch into frame. |
| EmpireKim NewmanSome Host or DASHCAM fans might be disappointed that Rob Savage has opted for something ostensibly more conventional — but The Boogeyman shows he can also make an involving, ungimmicky ghost story with perfectly constructed menace and mayhem. |
| SlashfilmBen PearsonThe Boogeyman doesn't set out to reinvent the wheel, but thankfully, it doesn't need to. Savage knows exactly how to push all the right buttons and pull all the right levers to engineer maximum potency, utilizing classical set-ups and pay-offs in entertaining, satisfying ways. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperInfused with a stylish and shadowy style courtesy of director Rob Savage (“Host,” “Dashcam”), with a sharp screenplay by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods and Mark Heyman, The Boogeyman is a familiar but still effectively unsettling variation on the time-honored story of the terrifying entity who’s in the closet or under the bed or maybe just down the hall, waiting to pounce on you and your loved ones, even as everyone around thinks you’re nutso for insisting there’s a Boogeyman living rent-free in your house. |
| VarietyTodd GilchristSavage’s confidence behind the camera sustains the film’s intensity even when the connective tissue between plot and theme, logic and tone is tenuous at best. But even working alongside sturdy collaborators like Messina and young Blair, it’s Thatcher who sells the improbable reality of an old-as-time spirit preying upon the frightened and grieving. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Boogeyman, in both its literary and cinematic forms, is undoubtedly relatively minor King. But when it’s done this well, even minor King is major scary. |
| ColliderChase HutchinsonThe Boogeyman is at its best when it strips away all the excess to draw us deeper into darkness. |
| Little White LiesAnton BitelThe Boogeyman is deftly done, its child-focused stakes are never less than alarming, and its ending, ambiguous and closeted, rings true. |
