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The Boogeyman
2023 · Horror
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127 votes
A few years ago in Dunwich a half-witted girl bore illegitimate twins. One of them was almost human!
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He is turned away by Wilbur, the family's insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won't be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret — as well as a great evil.
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Wuchak
November 3, 2022
**_Mysterious sorceries on the New England coast_** A college lass at a university in Massachusetts (Sandra Dee) falls for the charms of an outcast eccentric (Dean Stockwell), who lives with his grandfather at an eerie rural estate that has some… thing locked up in a secret upstairs room. Is the man’s interest in her innocent or does he have something more sinister in mind? Based on the H. P. Lovecraft novella from 1…
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Sierbahnn
July 27, 2026
As far as a faithful Lovecraft-adaptation goes this is not far off the mark. It uses 'psychodelic'-looking effects of its era to hide the fact that there was no way they could visualize the scary things in this story without it looking hokey, and I think it was the best choice. Dean does such a good job acting in this movie, and the rest of the cast, including a doctor in old-man makeup so that a single flashback wit…
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