It’s one of our primal fears reaching back to childhood: when things go bump in the night. But how many times can a mysterious bump, a muffled thud, or a creepy face peeking through the shadows really keep us scared? The Boogeyman, Rob Savage’s adaptation of the 1973 Stephen King short story of the same name, tests that theory. And through the course of its jump-scare-packed runtime, it proves that it can keep you — if not in a perpetual state of fear — pretty scared for a good 99 minutes.
