We all grew up with stories of the Boogeyman, a monster that would stir in the night, haunting both your dreams and nightmares. But in 1973 the enduring legend became even more immortalized thanks to none other than Stephen King, whose short story The Boogeyman was published in Cavalier Magazine before appearing in the 1978 collection Night Shift. With King being one of the world's most-read authors, even more people were introduced to the terrors of the Boogeyman, who in the beloved author's tale haunts a man named Lester Billings.
50 years on, the story is now being brought to the screen courtesy of director Rob Savage, who signed onto the project after the success of his brilliant lockdown Zoom horror Host. But how do you transform an eight page long short story into a feature? Well, that was a job for writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (who previously brought us the terrifying A Quiet Place) who decided that Billings shouldn't be the main character. Instead, their film would focus on therapist Will Harper, to whom Lester recounts his nightmares in the King story.
