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If you don't behave yourself the bogeyman will get you. | If you don't behave yourself the bogeyman will get you. |
Various cultures around the world have their own version of the bogeyman – a malevolent supernatural figure who preys on disobedient children, snatching them away to do goodness-known-what to them. | |
Here's five of cinema's most memorable examples – are there any others you'd add to the list? Let us know in the thread below. | Here's five of cinema's most memorable examples – are there any others you'd add to the list? Let us know in the thread below. |
[Warning - the following clips feature scenes of horror and violence.] | [Warning - the following clips feature scenes of horror and violence.] |
1. Freddy Krueger – A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1. Freddy Krueger – A Nightmare on Elm Street |
Freddy combines a strong bogeyman look (jumper/razor glove/horribly burnt face) with an unbeatable MO – murdering children inside their dreams. The later Nightmare films diminished his mojo by turning him into a wisecracking horror mascot – but Freddy remains 80s cinema's most memorably terrifying bogeyman. | |
2. Candyman – Candyman | 2. Candyman – Candyman |
If you stand in front of a mirror and say "Candyman" fives times, he'll come and kill you – at least according to the urban legend created in this scarily effective adaptation of a Clive Barker novel. | If you stand in front of a mirror and say "Candyman" fives times, he'll come and kill you – at least according to the urban legend created in this scarily effective adaptation of a Clive Barker novel. |
3. The Blair Witch – The Blair Witch Project | 3. The Blair Witch – The Blair Witch Project |
A bogeywoman, perhaps? We never see actually see the Blair Witch in this much-ripped-off found-footage horror – but she's all the more scary for existing in our imagination rather than on screen. | A bogeywoman, perhaps? We never see actually see the Blair Witch in this much-ripped-off found-footage horror – but she's all the more scary for existing in our imagination rather than on screen. |
4. The Child Catcher – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 4. The Child Catcher – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
Has any film aimed at children ever featured a character as creepy as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's nefarious villain – created by the film's screenwriter, one Roald Dahl? | Has any film aimed at children ever featured a character as creepy as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's nefarious villain – created by the film's screenwriter, one Roald Dahl? |
5. The Tall Man – Phantasm | 5. The Tall Man – Phantasm |
Don Coscarelli's cult 1979 shocker introduced discerning horror fans to the Tall Man, 19th century mortician-turned time-travelling dwarf-zombie master. A new Phantasm film was announced last month with the original Tall Man, 87-year-old Angus Scrimm, reprising the role for a fifth time. |
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