Love Sophie Thatcher, but woof this movie wasn't my thing. No attempt to understand the boogeyman other than speculation that it's old, ancient, and eldritch in nature. An emotionally absent father who, as a therapist, should understand how his inability to connect with his children is affecting them in the wake of their mothers death and the traumatizing event of seeing a man die in their own home. Scenes of Sadie being bullied lead to nothing. She was already sympathetic without the bullying. Her mother is dead and she cares for her younger sister. The addition of bullies tormenting her never pays off. That time could have been spent researching what the boogeyman is (boring, sure, but it's something). They just guess how to kill it and get lucky. I don't care about the father, I don't care about Sadie's friends, I don't care about much in this movie. Also- in what world are girls actually going to torture a girl who they're supposedly friends with who just lost her mother? Bullies are going to be there, sure. But we see people Sadie doesn't even know sympathizing with her at her school, yet her "friends" are telling her to get over it? All those scenes for what? What payoff is there? Stephen King, always at the scene of the very confusing crime.
Love Sophie Thatcher, but woof this movie wasn't my thing. No attempt to understand the boogeyman other than speculation that it's old, ancient, and eldritch in nature. An emotionally absent father who, as a therapist, should understand how his inability to connect with his children is affecting them in the wake of their mothers death and the traumatizing event of seeing a man die in their own home. Scenes of Sadie being bullied lead to nothing. She was already sympathetic without the bullying. Her mother is dead and she cares for her younger sister. The addition of bullies tormenting her never pays off. That time could have been spent researching what the boogeyman is (boring, sure, but it's something). They just guess how to kill it and get lucky. I don't care about the father, I don't care about Sadie's friends, I don't care about much in this movie. Also- in what world are girls actually going to torture a girl who they're supposedly friends with who just lost her mother? Bullies are going to be there, sure. But we see people Sadie doesn't even know sympathizing with her at her school, yet her "friends" are telling her to get over it? All those scenes for what? What payoff is there? Stephen King, always at the scene of the very confusing crime.
