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Post by forca84 on Jun 1, 2023 15:47:46 GMT
Based on the short story by King... A grieving Father is dealing with his Daughters after the death of their Mother. This is a fairly loose adaption of the story.
Has anyone seen it? Sounds like there are several tropes here similar to other movies.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jun 1, 2023 16:50:37 GMT
I plan on seeing this. I remember reading the story from the Night Shift collection. It was rather bizarre to say the least.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jun 2, 2023 18:54:09 GMT
Curious to see how this will be adapted. It's kind of perfect for the short form, so there will need to be some changing and adding.
I just recently watched the short from the early 80s on youtube. It was packaged together with Frank Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's The Woman in the Room on a vhs release called The Night Shift collection (even though there were only 2 of them). They were both accurate, faithful adaptions on very limited budgets. They were both fine for being essentially amateur productions, but nothing special.
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Post by forca84 on Jun 2, 2023 19:05:01 GMT
Curious to see how this will be adapted. It's kind of perfect for the short form, so there will need to be some changing and adding. I just recently watched the short from the early 80s on youtube. It was packaged together with Frank Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's The Woman in the Room on a vhs release called The Night Shift collection (even though there were only 2 of them). They were both accurate, faithful adaptions on very limited budgets. They were both fine for being essentially amateur productions, but nothing special. From what I understand it's a loose adaption. Both Daughters are in their Teens. And their Father is a Therapist dealing with the death of their Mother and grieving. Also they are adapting "The Monkey" short story by King as well. I'd love if they adapted more stories from that collection.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jun 2, 2023 19:14:50 GMT
Curious to see how this will be adapted. It's kind of perfect for the short form, so there will need to be some changing and adding. I just recently watched the short from the early 80s on youtube. It was packaged together with Frank Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's The Woman in the Room on a vhs release called The Night Shift collection (even though there were only 2 of them). They were both accurate, faithful adaptions on very limited budgets. They were both fine for being essentially amateur productions, but nothing special. From what I understand it's a loose adaption. Both Daughters are in their Teens. And their Father is a Therapist dealing with the death of their Mother and grieving. Also they are adapting "The Monkey" short story by King as well. I'd love if they adapted more stories from that collection. Yeah, The Monkey is being adapted by Osgood Perkins. Kind of strange and a lot will have to be added, but I like that a filmmaker who doesn't do sorta straightforward, mainstream, studio stuff is making it. It could he good with the right touch. Mike Flannagan is doing The Life of Chuck from the most recent King short story collection. THAT will be interesting. It's a very strange and elusive story, and not what most audiences will expect from a Stephen King movie. That's kind of a shame to hear this adaptation is less than faithful. It would be kinda cool if they made it a little closer, still at feature length, but it took place all in the therapsitd office but jumped into flashbacks and stuff. That final twist could really work excellently if they did that.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 9, 2023 13:08:10 GMT
Saw this on Hulu the other day. It's a perfectly OK, very standard studio horror movie. It felt a lot like Smile, but even a little more mainstream.
It had very little to do with short story. In interviews and promotional materials they were describing it as both an adaptation and sequel, but that's not really true either. The main character from the story is in it and does go to a therapist, and his backstory is more or less the same, but everything else that happens with him is different and all the details of what kind of person he is are just left out completely. So it barely touches on the story, and the title creature is something else entirely from what it appears to be in the story.
The rest of the movie is just the standard studio horror fare. Characters are grieving a tragic loss, there's a monster, there are shadows, the lead character discovers what's going on and has to investigate, it leads her to someone who has already been dealing with this monster/curse/whatever whose life has been destroyed, the people who didn't believe her come to ultimately believe and they fight the thing together, then it ends some time later where they are finally healing from the original tragic event. All VERY standard and out of the framework of a million generic studio horror movies.
But Rob Savage showed he can make something like this, and it looks good and is filled with good actors.
It's perfectly fine but very far from anything special.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 9, 2023 13:39:53 GMT
Saw this on Hulu the other day. It's a perfectly OK, very standard studio horror movie. It felt a lot like Smile, but even a little more mainstream. It had very little to do with short story. In interviews and promotional materials they were describing it as both an adaptation and sequel, but that's not really true either. The main character from the story is in it and does go to a therapist, and his backstory is more or less the same, but everything else that happens with him is different and all the details of what kind of person he is are just left out completely. So it barely touches on the story, and the title creature is something else entirely from what it appears to be in the story. The rest of the movie is just the standard studio horror fare. Characters are grieving a tragic loss, there's a monster, there are shadows, the lead character discovers what's going on and has to investigate, it leads her to someone who has already been dealing with this monster/curse/whatever whose life has been destroyed, the people who didn't believe her come to ultimately believe and they fight the thing together, then it ends some time later where they are finally healing from the original tragic event. All VERY standard and out of the framework of a million generic studio horror movies. But Rob Savage showed he can make something like this, and it looks good and is filled with good actors. It's perfectly fine but very far from anything special. Exactly how I felt about The Boogeyman. A standard, generic horror movie. It could have been taken in a better direction.
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Post by James on Oct 10, 2023 15:04:01 GMT
Probably the least "Stephen King" Stephen King movie ever.
It's competently shot and directed with some fine character work. Not much a fan of how dark this movie is lit even in the day time. They established that the creature is affected by light and night is when it strikes but that doesn't explain why the movie is hard to see for the remainder.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 10, 2023 15:49:04 GMT
Probably the least "Stephen King" Stephen King movie ever. It's competently shot and directed with some fine character work. Not much a fan of how dark this movie is lit even in the day time. They established that the creature is affected by light and night is when it strikes but that doesn't explain why the movie is hard to see for the remainder. There are quite a few 'Stephen King' movies that are not Stephen King movies. It would have made a lot of sense, and it's kinda what I expected, to faithfully adapt the short story for the cold open and then sort of pick up a new story with the same threat from there. This one did include references to the story, like Lester Billings (I think that's his name) is the character from the story, but nothing else really resembles it. The story he tells is kinda similar, but it's not the same therapist and everything else that happens later is completely unrecognizable. It's a weird approach in that this isn't really a very recognizable title, so why bother even calling it The Boogeyman if it's not even really gonna be the story? I get why they just made it like every other mainstream studio horror movie, they feel like it's just the easiest short cut to apply this same kind of story structure to whatever creature they've come up with, but it just feels odd to call it Stephen King's The Boogeyman if the were gonna do that.
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Post by James on Oct 10, 2023 17:25:53 GMT
Probably the least "Stephen King" Stephen King movie ever. It's competently shot and directed with some fine character work. Not much a fan of how dark this movie is lit even in the day time. They established that the creature is affected by light and night is when it strikes but that doesn't explain why the movie is hard to see for the remainder. There are quite a few 'Stephen King' movies that are not Stephen King movies. It would have made a lot of sense, and it's kinda what I expected, to faithfully adapt the short story for the cold open and then sort of pick up a new story with the same threat from there. This one did include references to the story, like Lester Billings (I think that's his name) is the character from the story, but nothing else really resembles it. The story he tells is kinda similar, but it's not the same therapist and everything else that happens later is completely unrecognizable. It's a weird approach in that this isn't really a very recognizable title, so why bother even calling it The Boogeyman if it's not even really gonna be the story? I get why they just made it like every other mainstream studio horror movie, they feel like it's just the easiest short cut to apply this same kind of story structure to whatever creature they've come up with, but it just feels odd to call it Stephen King's The Boogeyman if the were gonna do that. Never read the short story myself, but that would explain it. The fact that it plays more as a sort-of sequel than an actual adaptation reminds me of what they did with The Dark Tower which I heard did a similar thing. I feel like they could have opened the movie showing what happens to Lester and his family instead of just vaguely alluding to it in the opening credits.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 10, 2023 20:59:42 GMT
its bleh outside Thatcher and Messina.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 10, 2023 21:11:29 GMT
if I need to go further Thatcher will be a star in making, shes awesome in most things which I see her in.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 10, 2023 21:19:23 GMT
its bleh outside Thatcher and Messina. I thought the little sister was pretty good for a child actor.. and David Dastmalchian and Marin Ireland are pretty much always good. I did feel like the daughter's friend's friend was ridiculously mean and totally unrealistic, but I don't know if that's the actress' fault or just the bad writing.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 10, 2023 21:28:42 GMT
David Dastmalchian is one of the most underrated actors nowadays honestly.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 12, 2023 15:36:20 GMT
The little sister was also young Princess Leia in Obi-Wan Kenobi. I found The Boogeyman to be fairly forgettable and generic, so similar to so many other movies. Never read the short story so only have this to go on.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 12, 2023 15:37:00 GMT
David Dastmalchian is one of the most underrated actors nowadays honestly. Maybe.. he's doing quite well for himself lately though.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 12, 2023 15:39:49 GMT
The little sister was also young Princess Leia in Obi-Wan Kenobi. I found The Boogeyman to be fairly forgettable and generic, so similar to so many other movies. Never read the short story so only have this to go on. The short story is pretty good, and short, if you're interested in it. I think you can find an audiobook version of it on youtube. But basically the David Dasmalchian character who comes to see the therapist in this movie is the main character of the story. And what he tells the therapist is pretty much straight out of the story, but there's more to it, and everything else that happens with him, and the therapist character, is completely different. It all takes place in the therapists office with him explaining what happened to him and with a twist ending.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 13, 2023 13:52:40 GMT
The little sister was also young Princess Leia in Obi-Wan Kenobi. I found The Boogeyman to be fairly forgettable and generic, so similar to so many other movies. Never read the short story so only have this to go on. The short story is pretty good, and short, if you're interested in it. I think you can find an audiobook version of it on youtube. But basically the David Dasmalchian character who comes to see the therapist in this movie is the main character of the story. And what he tells the therapist is pretty much straight out of the story, but there's more to it, and everything else that happens with him, and the therapist character, is completely different. It all takes place in the therapists office with him explaining what happened to him and with a twist ending. I'd love an entire movie following his character.
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