Stephen King fans are going to have a lot of fun with The Boogeyman. For starters, as I wrote in my CinemaBlend review of the movie, it’s a consistently scary ride that is a blast to experience with a theater full of people, but it’s also very much a love letter to the author who wrote the short story on which the film is based. This is evident in both its treatment of the source material (the adaptation building on and operating as a semi-sequel to King’s work) and the impressive number of Easter eggs – which are so plentiful that even director Rob Savage continues to find new ones when he watches his work.
I brought up the subject of hidden references and nods to Stephen King’s books when I interviewed the filmmaker earlier this month during the Los Angeles press day for The Boogeyman, and he explained how including them in the movie was a collaborative effort. There are some that Savage himself specifically pushed for, but he gives a great amount of credit to production designer Jeremy Woodward for going the extra mile. Said the filmmaker,
