Went into this movie with little expectations and was actually pleasantly surprised with how well they pulled off the boogeyman character, all the special effects, jump scares and creepy moments. Ontop of that all the acting was extremely well executed everyone committed to their character and really delivered pretty strong performances. Special nods to the main character and the man that played billings. That's about all the positive things I have to say about this movie though and that's where our spoilers will begin.
First off the little girl who pee'd in her pants the one time the lights went off in the therapist office is incredibly inconsistent with how afraid she is. When she first sees the boogeyman she actually has the nerve to continue investigating it, BY HERSELF, MULTIPLE TIMES, IN THE DARK WHICH SHE IS SUPPOSEDLY TERRIFIED OF. There's just little consistency to any decision she makes, right down to the end where she is playing her video games in a room with 0 lights on despite the fact she again, is terrified of the dark. No child that age would be sleeping alone, especially in her own room with door closed after seeing the boogeyman haunting her MULTIPLE times.
Now onto the dad who is by far the worst character. He's actually a therapist by trade but is the worst dad you've ever seen. Instead of consoling his daughters he just pawns them off on another therapist right after their mom died and man supposedly committed suicide in their house. Get a clue moron. He's nowhere to be found in the house at all times despite his daughters constantly screaming and crying. Right down to the end where his 6 year old is being tossed like a rag doll around the living room and he somehow shows up about 10 seconds too late. Somehow this moron still isn't buying the story despite the fact his daughter fliped the couch and suicide torpedoed into the living room TV. Even after the daughters extreme head injury, he brings her home from the hospital about 2 hours later as she knocked out in the backseat with no seatbelt on. Dad of the year. I swear in the climax of the movie we see this man straight up snap his leg like a twig yet his daughters who combined weigh less than half of him are able to assist him in walking all the out of the house from the basement. Later in the final scene not only is his leg not broken but he's not even limping or wearing a brace. What?
The older daughter also makes some incredibly questionable moves as well. The town they must live in must be about the size of a college campus as she can easily walk to and from school, from her house to the billings residence and from the billings residence to the hospital. All within a very small amount of time. After watching the boogeyman eat about a half dozen 12 gauge shot gun rounds point blank and rip a woman in a half (another character who is making insanely bad choices such as burning more candles than the entirety of all the churches in America, or completely giving up on any sort of cleaning or even keeping the backdoor of her house shut) she declares to her younger sister (who is wrapped in Christmas lights that are plugged in and working despite all the power in the house not working) that she can kill the boogeyman and proceeds to attempt to do so armed with a hockey stick.
There's more plot holes and poor writing littered about such as billings who is terrified of closets and the boogeyman deciding he going to into the closet and get killed by him? What? Honestly if I went over all the poor writing we would be her for about another 2000 characters.
This movie gets a 4 because the acting really is good despite the awful script, and there are actually a lot of creepy well done horror scenes in this movie. I would probably even watch it again because it kind of works as a dark comedy if you riff on the poor writing as you watch it.
First off the little girl who pee'd in her pants the one time the lights went off in the therapist office is incredibly inconsistent with how afraid she is. When she first sees the boogeyman she actually has the nerve to continue investigating it, BY HERSELF, MULTIPLE TIMES, IN THE DARK WHICH SHE IS SUPPOSEDLY TERRIFIED OF. There's just little consistency to any decision she makes, right down to the end where she is playing her video games in a room with 0 lights on despite the fact she again, is terrified of the dark. No child that age would be sleeping alone, especially in her own room with door closed after seeing the boogeyman haunting her MULTIPLE times.
Now onto the dad who is by far the worst character. He's actually a therapist by trade but is the worst dad you've ever seen. Instead of consoling his daughters he just pawns them off on another therapist right after their mom died and man supposedly committed suicide in their house. Get a clue moron. He's nowhere to be found in the house at all times despite his daughters constantly screaming and crying. Right down to the end where his 6 year old is being tossed like a rag doll around the living room and he somehow shows up about 10 seconds too late. Somehow this moron still isn't buying the story despite the fact his daughter fliped the couch and suicide torpedoed into the living room TV. Even after the daughters extreme head injury, he brings her home from the hospital about 2 hours later as she knocked out in the backseat with no seatbelt on. Dad of the year. I swear in the climax of the movie we see this man straight up snap his leg like a twig yet his daughters who combined weigh less than half of him are able to assist him in walking all the out of the house from the basement. Later in the final scene not only is his leg not broken but he's not even limping or wearing a brace. What?
The older daughter also makes some incredibly questionable moves as well. The town they must live in must be about the size of a college campus as she can easily walk to and from school, from her house to the billings residence and from the billings residence to the hospital. All within a very small amount of time. After watching the boogeyman eat about a half dozen 12 gauge shot gun rounds point blank and rip a woman in a half (another character who is making insanely bad choices such as burning more candles than the entirety of all the churches in America, or completely giving up on any sort of cleaning or even keeping the backdoor of her house shut) she declares to her younger sister (who is wrapped in Christmas lights that are plugged in and working despite all the power in the house not working) that she can kill the boogeyman and proceeds to attempt to do so armed with a hockey stick.
There's more plot holes and poor writing littered about such as billings who is terrified of closets and the boogeyman deciding he going to into the closet and get killed by him? What? Honestly if I went over all the poor writing we would be her for about another 2000 characters.
This movie gets a 4 because the acting really is good despite the awful script, and there are actually a lot of creepy well done horror scenes in this movie. I would probably even watch it again because it kind of works as a dark comedy if you riff on the poor writing as you watch it.