Review: ‘The Boogeyman’ is a moody monster movie with real bite

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Director Rob Savage, who made ‘Host’ and ‘Dashcam,’ has made an extremely...

From left, Sophie Thatcher as Sadie Harper, Chris Messina as Will Harper and Vivien Lyra Blair as Sawyer Harper in"The Boogeyman." Things go bump in the night, and then some, in"The Boogeyman," director Rob Savage's well-played horror exercise that alternately goes from slow and brooding to loud and booming.

Chris Messina is Will Harper, a therapist whose wife was recently killed in a car accident. His daughters — high school-age Sadie and elementary schooler Sawyer — are dealing with the fallout in their own ways, mostly by retreating inward. The same time she's home, her father is visited by Lester , a disturbed man seeking professional help, or at least a sympathetic ear. He explains to Will how his three children were mysteriously killed and the town thinks he's to blame, and when Will turns his back, Lester goes upstairs and hangs himself in a closet. Sadie is the unfortunate soul who finds his body.

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