2023 · horror · adventure · supernatural
The Boogeyman: Origins
Directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández1h 31m2023
Explores the Spanish origins of the character's story, where he is a tuberculosis patient from Almeria who will do anything to get well, even consuming the blood of the kids he kidnaps in a sack.
Our read: The Boogeyman: Origins (2023) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · adventure · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / adventure, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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