 Hello everybody! E here. Welcome back to 31 Days of Halloween. Today I am reviewing the 2023 horror movie The Boogieman based on Stephen King's short story of the same name. This one stars Sophie Thatcher, David Dasmalshin, I'm sorry if I got that wrong, Vivian Lira, Chris Messina, Madison Hugh, and Maren Ireland. Anyways, let's jump right in the review. Okay, so The Boogieman 2023. I did not reread the short story before I watched the movie, and I really wish I would have because I do not remember much about the story, which is kinda funny because I don't remember a whole hell of a lot about this movie, and I literally just watched it last night. I remember enjoying it, I remember throughout the movie saying, this is really good for what it is, and then a night went by I came out here to shoot my review and I literally had to look up the plot on Wikipedia, none of that sounds familiar, I almost thought that I had not actually watched this one, that I had watched another film called The Boogieman because there's a bunch of them out there, but I went back to, I believe it was Paramount Plus or Hulu, I can't remember which one I watched it on, but I went back and checked and we'd actually watched it. Also looking up the creature images, I remember the creature, and the creature is a standout point for me at least, now I need to preface what I'm gonna say next with my review for Grim Cuddy, most people disagreed with me and I knew it was coming, I have a very weird taste when it comes to creature features, what I like, what I don't like, I really enjoyed the character design, the creature design of Grim Cuddy in that one other than when he was shown from a distance, in this one I feel the same way, when he's shown from far away, he wasn't anywhere near as creepy as he was up close, or maybe that's a mental thing, I don't know, there is a really cool original aspect to the creature, I don't know how original it is, basically something inside the mouth that I was rather impressed with and I didn't see coming, I figured we were going with a very basic shadowy creature and that's not what you get at all, so 10 out of 10 for the creature design in my opinion, as far as the characters, I don't remember anybody except for the guy who plays Lester Billings and the only reason I remember that name is because I looked up the actor who played him and it felt forced, it's one of those things where, I don't know man, it's like he seemed awkward, not in an acting sort of way, the guy seemed awkward like he was having problems with his lines, I don't know, so the two things that I remember is the creature and Lester Billings, as far as the story, I don't have any idea how well it adapts the short story, the boogeyman has never been a favorite of mine, I've read it like two or three times but I couldn't tell you off the top of my head if this is an accurate representation of that story, I don't believe it is because the story is rather short from what I do remember and this is a hour and a half movie, anyways I'm sorry for this review where I'm just like I don't remember much about that but I did want to bring this up here and give you my thoughts on the film because it's pretty bad when you watch a movie and the night before and you can't remember it the very next day and I can't even blame my my gummy or anything else because I've watched several movies the past couple of past week and a half and I remember all of those just fine but with this one I am I'm trying trying my best now what I what might have happened is I might have been picking on the movie while I was watching it and not paying attention but also I've been reading reviews from people and a lot of people agree that this movie isn't memorable it's not going to stick with you I'm trying to go back through other Stephen King adaptations that are that are like this one where it's a good one-time watch but you probably never gonna watch it again and I can think of a couple of them I think the golden years which I have never reviewed I haven't watched it since it first came out that's one that's just kind of forgettable oddly enough sleepwalkers no one ever talks about sleepwalkers it's not a terrible movie it's got some really great stuff in it's got some really funny scenes the corn cob there's a couple other movies out there sometimes they come back that's another one that just kind of came and went the mangler same thing it's usually the short stories that stray pretty far away from King's original idea that kind of just you know fizzle out you know and go away so lawnmower man but lawnmower man was absolutely terrible I'm trying to think of the good ones anyways if you can think of more middling or mid as the kids are saying if you can think of more mid Stephen King adaptations let me know down there in the doobly-doo I have a I have an idea for a series of you know getting instead of getting King wrong getting King right maybe getting King in the middle I don't I don't know let me let me know what you guys think about that kind of series down there in the doobly-doo but yeah I'm before I came out here to film this I was sitting pretty at a 3.5 but the fact that I can't remember anything about this movie I'm gonna go ahead and give it to so I didn't tell you guys that upfront for those of you who like to just get my you know get my rating and move on watch it for yourself I do I am really disappointed because this is Rob Savage the same guy that did host I believe the same director and this one while it was shot beautifully it looked really good I remember saying that while I was watching it it didn't hit anywhere near as hard as host so I'm hoping this is like probably not a sophomore effort I think he's done other things in between but let's hope this is just a one-off and his other films are more memorable from here on out but anyways have you seen the boogie man let me know what you thought about it down there in the doobly-doo but until next time I have any you've been you this has been another episode of 31 days of Halloween I'll talk to you guys later bye bye