Film Analysis: The Boogey Man

The film The Boogey Man, is a Horror film, directed by Stephen Kay, that is a take on the classic ‘Boogie Man’ or monster in the closet who is the main antagonist of the film. It is the second film of an apparent trilogy. One particularly important scene is the scene at the beginning with the main character, Tim Jensen, at a young age going through a series of mysterious occurrences in his room at night to then witness his dad being taken by the Boogie man. Stephen uses the five aspects Lighting, Dialogue, Character’s actions, Camerawork and Soundtrack to emphasize the overall dark mood that is tempted to make.

SoundTrack
A key aspect that was used in this scene was the way that the director builds and releases tension when required using the sound track. This is used as Tim gets up to put his clothes in his draws. The slow, high pitch music in the background started to become more high pitch and louder as the light falls and breaks, the door then opens revealing a shadowing figure as the music comes to its climax. This non-Diegetic music serves the purpose of amplifying the emotion and tension of the atmosphere in this scene in the way that diegetic sounds are restricted from. The use of the monotonous, string based, music served as a way of emitting a

The Father looks through Tim’s room to help comfort him and as he finishes checking his closet he says ‘Just us’. This then sparks the BoogeyMan to ,then, Viciously kill him leaving his son by himself. With the father saying this shows how he is unintimidated by the Boogeyman and trying to show Tim there is nothing to fear. The director chooses this type of language as it can be seen as a way of provoking the Boogeyman causing the death. By using this dialogue, the Director was able to leave the audience thinking that the supernatural occurrences had come to an end and be at ease just to mislead them and end up having him be