Rob Savage's The Boogeyman (2023)

Stephen Kingcast

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Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, I'm taking a break from the coverage of televised Stephen King works to review this banger of a movie that passed me by when it first came out. Starring rising Scream Queen Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets, Heretic, Companion), always likeable Chris Messina and everyone's favorite weirdo, David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), The Boogeyman tells the tale of a wounded family, recently shattered from the loss of its mother/wife, stalked by the mythological creature. This very easily could have been a generic, run of the mill, cut and paste horror movie, but between the talent on screen, the believable characterizations, the lived-in-world of this family, the visual flourishes and the strong direction from Rob Savage (director of Host, the Zoom-inspired horror that you need to see if you haven't already), it is a must watch Stephen King adaptation. As always, you can write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Bluesky, Tik Tok, Instagram and Facebook. And check out more reviews at patreon.com/stephenkingcast

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Stephen Kingcast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.
0:04.8	Each week, I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.
0:09.8	And today, what I'm going to do, I am checking out and reviewing something that completely passed me by back in 2023, that I kind of just dismissed unnecessarily and unfairly.
0:25.8	So I recently asked my wife, I said, hey, you want to check this out?
0:31.5	You know, I'm trying to, you know, clean up some of my mistakes over on the Stephen King cast.
0:36.7	She said, sure sure because she's always
0:38.2	down for a fun time with with horror movies and and horror TV shows and we
0:42.8	decided to check out the boogeyman from 2003 so today we're gonna be talking
0:48.0	about the boogeyman I'm very excited to discuss this there's a lot to pull out from this. And I just wanted to say before I
0:58.7	get to the boogeyman, welcome everyone. Welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the
1:03.5	works of Stephen King. For those of you who are first time listeners, welcome aboard. I'm going to
1:09.2	take some time to explain how to best listen to the
1:11.6	Stephen King cast for longtime listeners. Thank you, as always, for tuning in and showing up and
1:17.2	showing that support to this little podcast that could. So for new listeners, this was designed to be
1:27.0	a chronological exploration of Stephen King's published works and
1:32.0	designed to review from Kerry all the way through Stephen King's latest publication. I started
1:37.9	it back in 2014 and just recently I decided to revamp the podcast. So I've gone in. I've done some re-recordings and some re-edits of the episodes. I've George Lucas some of it. And I have reordered everything so that truly is in the chronological order of publication.
2:01.6	So that has been good to do because that's something that has been weighing on me over the years.
2:07.2	So the podcast feed is now completely reordered.
2:10.3	I'm still doing some cleanup on that.
2:14.1	But if you are looking for a particular episode and you can't find it, chances are
2:19.7	I have pulled it out of rotation from right now because I need to re-record some elements
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