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This is the scariest of all of the Disney Channel Original Movies in existence. 100% not kidding.
- The Boogeyman himself is very scary enough to frighten anyone who watches this DCOM.
- The original conceptual drawings depicted him with quills on his back. Luckily, director Kenneth Johnson switched the design to make him more Victorian and made his dialogue be spoken in limericks, with frills only coming out as a last-minute scare before turning back into Zoe.
- The Boogeyman tries to go as far as he can to ruin Frances' life by playing pranks that point to her.
- One of the pranks involves the Boogeyman pouring Jell-O into the pool while a diver dives in, only to get stuck in the Jell-O pool.
- The scenes when Larry turns into a Boogeyman himself can be very unsettling for many viewers who remembered watching the movie on Disney Channel back when it first aired in 1999.
- After a creepy crawl happened, that's when people were 100% convinced that they needed to talk about Larry. He was turning into a boogeyman before their very eyes.
- The makeup in the movie was fantastic, but perhaps that was what made it scary. The more awesome the makeup, the more horrific the detail.
- The moment when the Boogeyman grabs Darwin, who is in Frances' room, under the bed.
- The TV promos often feature the shot of Darwin screaming as he's being dragged down at the end of them.
- The fact that this is the scariest DCOM ever made can be very unsettling for kids who just found out about it. In fact, some kids found out about it through exactly that. No wonder why they even included a disclaimer at the start of the film when it first premiered. A movie about what you believe becoming real, feared by kids because they believe it to be fearsome. Funny how that works, isn't it?
- A "Behind The EARS" featurette of the movie that aired on Disney Channel ends with Erin Chambers (who plays Frances in the movie) screaming at the viewers as Steve Valentine as the Boogeyman passes by her.
