Tim Jenson (Barry Watson) is a man who, when he was a boy, witnessed his father being taken by the Boogeyman living in his closet before his very eyes. Ever since then, he has lived his life making sure the Boogeyman can't do the same to him. Sleeping on a mattress on the floor, keeping his clothes in dresser drawers, and owning a fridge with a glass door that's lit at all times.
However, when his mother dies, Tim has to return home to attend the funeral. While he's there, he meets up with an old friend of his named Kate (Emily Deschanel), and is told by his psychiatrist that staying in his childhood home might be good for him. From there, Tim goes to face the Boogeyman and finally overcome the monster that haunted his childhood.
The movie was released on February 4th, 2005. It also has two sequels, Boogeyman 2 and Boogeyman 3. Not connected in any way to the 1980 film or the 2023 film.
Boogeyman contains examples of:
- Antagonist Title: Boogeyman, of course.
- Batter Up!: Tim uses a baseball bat to destroy his crow mobile and plasma globe, two of which were objects that gave The Boogeyman its form.
- Berserk Board Barricade: When confronting the Boogeyman, Tim boards up all the doors in his old house, except the one to his closet. When the Boogeyman arrives, all the boards burst off of their doors.
- Bloody Handprint: At one point, Tim finds the bathtub Jessica was in is empty, with a bloody handprint of the rim of the tub. Turns out he left it there while pursuing the Boogeyman later on.
- Bogeyman: The Big Bad of the movie.
- Missing Child: Tim is given a large amount of missing children's posters at one point. Each one of them are kids who were taken by the Boogeyman. Franny was one of them.
- Nail 'Em: At one point, when Tim sees Mike in his old house, Mike inexplicably grabs a nail gun and starts shooting at him. Of course, it some kind of flashback, and Mike was shooting at the Boogeyman before it took him.
- One-Word Title: Boogeyman, naturally.
- Room Full of Crazy: The inside of Franny's dad's house has all kinds of research notes and messages proclaiming things like "FACE HIM!" written all over the walls. One room in the house is covered in missing children's posters, including Franny's.
- The Stinger: After the credits, we see a shot from inside a closet, where a little girl asks one of her parents to close said closet's door.
