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Dr. Tristan Makenzie (Elissa Dowling) is applying for a job at an
insane asylum, where the institution's head Dr. Moon (Airisa Durand) tasks
her to assess five cases of boogeyman-apparitions:
- There's Cathy (Chynna Rae Shurts), who believes the boogeyman is
living in her closet, and she routinely brings home men to feed to him
...
- There's painter Olivia (Nicolette Pullen), who thinks someone is
invading her home, and she scares herself in a catatonic state in the
process ...
- There's petty criminal Tommy (Khail Duggan), who has killed someone
and now hides out in his deceased dat's place together with his
brother Ethan (James Luster). But as careful as the two of them were
to hide their tracks, Tommy is convinced the boogeyman has followed
them ...
- There's John (Steve Larkin), a paranormal investigator, and his new
assistant Rose (Jax Kellington), a natural doubter. John wants to
prove the existence of the boogeyman. Unfortunately, the boogeyman
doesn't like to be proven, and he also doesn't like doubters ...
- And finally there's Shawn (Calvin Morie McCarthy), a recovering drug
addict who's so convinced the boogeyman's after him he kills his own
mother ...
Granted, the punchline of this movie is very easy to guess, especially
if one's into horror anthologies, but everything that leads to it is
pretty cool genre entertainment: For one, all the stories told are well
built up and well told, and while they might differ in tone and substance,
they're nevertheless homogenous enough to work well with one another in
the context, and Elissa Dowling and Airisa Durand in the framing story do
a good job holding the whole thing together, while a solid ensemble carry
the film rather beautifully, making this a very enjoyable piece of horror
cinema.
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