Sadie listens to a recording of Lester's appointment and reads up about the Billings family online, discovering their address.

In the house, the creature continues to stalk and terrorize Sawyer while Sadie also glimpses it and begins to suspect the strange phenomenon is related to Lester's suicide. Weller uses a flashing light to help Sawyer get over her fear of the dark, but Sawyer spots the creature again and ends up wetting herself. Weller to talk about their mother's death.

The girls later visit their therapist Dr. Sawyer alerts Sadie, who cannot find the creature and does not believe her sister. Sadie notices a strange mold beginning to form around the house while Sawyer glimpses a mysterious creature hiding under her bed. The family is disturbed by Lester's death but attempts to get back to normal. Lester slips away into the house with Sadie finding his hanging body in her mother's art closet. Although sympathetic to Lester, a disbelieving Will leaves him alone to call the police. Lester explains that his three children have died, all killed one by one by an entity that he thinks has now latched onto him. One day, Will is visited by a man called Lester Billings who asks to speak to him. Sawyer suffers from nightmares, and Will buries himself in work, while Sadie struggles to adjust back into school where her friend Bethany has joined a new clique of girls who treat Sadie with disdain. The Harper family, sisters Sadie and Sawyer and their therapist father Will, are struggling to come to terms with the recent death of the family matriarch, who died suddenly in a car crash. The film received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $39 million worldwide. The Boogeyman was released in the United States on June 2, 2023, by 20th Century Studios. Originally planned to be released on the streaming service Hulu, Disney eventually opted for a theatrical release first following positive test screenings. Principal photography began in February 2022 in New Orleans. Thatcher, Messina, Dastmalchian and the rest of the cast signed in early 2022. However, it was revived in November 2021 with Savage directing the project. The film stars Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair, and David Dastmalchian.Īn adaptation of King's short story was first announced in June 2018 with Beck and Woods writing the screenplay, but the project was canceled in 2019 due to Disney's acquisition of Fox. It is based on the 1973 short story of the same name, by Stephen King. The Boogeyman is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by Rob Savage from a screenplay by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, and Mark Heyman.

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