I don't watch horror movies to be scared because I simply don't get scared by them. I enjoy horror movies because horror is the only genre of movie that stands out from the rest. But I knew from the moment I saw the trailer at 3 in the morning back at day 1. This was going to scare the living hell out of me. The Boogeyman movie from 2005 scared me as a kid and I still have nightmares once a year from some scenes. This movie brought back all of those fears and it was a really well done movie.
I love the camera work and scene set ups to add more fear into a scene with no jumpscares. I love the use of lighting because that's what this movie essentially is, the fear of monsters in the dark, the fear that the longer you look into the darkness that something will start to look back at you. This movie perfectly does this.
although some of the story plots have me questioning the writers behind the script, and the ending falls flat. I believe that this will become the Boogeyman Movie that will keep today's kids up just like the 2005 did to me. Love this movie and will definitely be putting it on my horror week binge leading to Halloween.