3.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Boogeyman (2005)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 3.4
Overview
Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years ago. Is the Boogeyman real, or did Tim make it up to explain why his father abandoned his family?
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years ago. Is the Boogeyman real, or did Tim make it up to explain why his father abandoned his family?
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's central themes of confronting personal fear and childhood trauma, resolved through individual courage, are inherently apolitical and do not align with any specific progressive or conservative ideology.
The movie features a predominantly white cast without any explicit race or gender swaps of traditional roles. Its narrative is a straightforward horror story focused on a monster and childhood fears, and it does not contain any critique of traditional identities.
Secondary
The film "Boogeyman" (2005) does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses exclusively on heterosexual characters and a supernatural horror plot centered on childhood fears and trauma, with no elements related to queer identity or experiences.
The film "Boogeyman" (2005) does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on supernatural horror elements and a protagonist confronting childhood fears, with no relevant LGBTQ+ content.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film 'Boogeyman' (2005) is an original horror story based on a general folkloric concept, not a direct adaptation of a specific narrative with established characters. All main characters are original to this film's story, and the titular entity lacks a consistently defined gender in prior canon that could be swapped.
The 2005 film "Boogeyman" is loosely based on a Stephen King short story. The source material does not explicitly define the race of its characters, and the film introduces many new characters. There is no evidence of a character being established as one race in prior canon and then portrayed as a different race in this adaptation.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
4.2
5.0
Critic Ratings
1.1
3.2
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