The full-length trailer has been released for the film adaptation of the famed Stephen King short story “The Boogeyman” which gets a theatrical run on June 2nd through 20th Century Studios.
Rob Savage (“Dashcam”) directs and “Stranger Things” producer Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps produces the film that was initially made as a direct-to-Hulu effort.
A test screening result in December however proved so good the studio opted to reconsider its release strategy, not unlike “Smile” last year at Paramount. Savage tells Empire that the first appearance of the creature caused such a reaction they had to insert nearly a minute of ‘padding’ after so audiences didn’t miss any vital information.
The short was one of twenty in King’s most famous 1973 short story collection “Night Shift” and was arguably the scariest work in the collection which included such stories as “Children of the Corn,” “Graveyard Shift,” “The Mangler,” “Sometimes They Come Back,” and “The Lawnmower Man”.
The film plot is quite different and follows a sixteen-year-old (Sophie Thatcher) and her younger sister, still reeling from the death of their mother, as they are targeted by a supernatural boogeyman after their psychologist father (Chris Messina) has an encounter with a desperate patient in their house.
Vivien Lyra Blair, David Dastmalchian, Marin Ireland and Madison Hu also star. Mark Heyman (“Black Swan”) has been writing recent drafts with Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (“A Quiet Place”) and Akela Cooper (“Malignant”) penning earlier versions.
