Director Rob Savage acknowledges that he is a 31-year-old man who still harbors many fears from childhood: “Since I was a child, I’ve been afraid of everything that has to do with the supernatural: ghosts, dolls like Annabelle, beasts, all of that fascinates me. affects,” he says.
But all those fantastic beings had a precedent, one that has frightened millions of human beings for centuries, the one that hides in the darkness of a room and snatches the dreams of infants: “Boogeyman”. In Spanish-speaking countries it is known as El Coco or the Lord of the sack or sack, it is the being with which parents usually warn children to misbehave. One that was taken up by the master of terror, Stephen King, in his eponymous short story published in 1973.
“It’s amazing that this is the first creature we use to understand evil and darkness in the world, so I felt like there was something there worth exploring on film,” explains the filmmaker. “Boogeyman: Your fear is real”, a film that opens this Thursday, tells the story of Will Harper (Chris Messina), a psychiatrist who one night meets a peculiar patient – fearful, withdrawn and very desperate -, who asks him to listen to the terrifying situation he is experiencing with the arrival of a strange presence in his family.
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The therapist has just suffered the death of his wife and is grieving with his two daughters, but this patient’s visit also attracts an evil presence that threatens his daughters, something that he does not notice because he is immersed in his grief. . “This story sits at an intersection of real world horror and fantasy horror, that’s the key. What impressed me so much about the story it was the pain and trauma that the main character has gone through and how Stephen managed to tie it into this bogeyman idea“, considers the director.
The original tale has sent chills down readers for 50 years, spawning three film adaptations. especially to parents Well, King’s story has been interpreted as a metaphor for the omission of paternity, which gives a twist to the classic story, which tends to scare the little ones more. But conveying the writer’s terror to the screen wasn’t so easy, acknowledges Savage, who had the good fortune to work with the It writer.
“He was very supportive of what we wanted to do, in a nonchalant way. He read the initial script and loved it. He had a couple of thoughts which were great, so we made adjustments, but he had a position that he wanted us to do our own version with the initial seed of his short story. When reviewing the film, he said that he was scared, “says the American filmmaker.
The curse is removed
 
This story was already in development when it was canceled in 2019, after Disney’s acquisition of Fox. Nevertheless, What the creative team saw as a curse ended two years later, when the mouse company decided to resume production, something that the director celebrates as progress.. “Every horror fan in the world knows that horror is the best community experience you can have and it seems like people are finally catching up, so it’s really nice that Disney has made this a major release and they’re putting their confidence in gender.
What is important to Savage is that audiences in this genre are taken seriously, as horror stories often represent inherent, even existential, fears of human beings. “I think they’re the smartest audiences in the world, they’re the most active, they know when you’re trying to fool them. and they can see what you’re doing so you have to be very smart to try to find ways to scare them and I think it’s about knowing what they are
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