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Psychic plot theory

posted 18 years ago by el-d
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like everyone else I thought this movie was a mess. however it seems there is one clue as to the truth in the movie.

During the wasted scene with 30 seconds of Lucy Lawless the father says that the kid's imagination is really vivid and that "you know what will happen, if he think's it's real, it will be" or something like that.

So the boogeyman is actually a physical creation of Tim's mind. He has a psychic ability. This explains why he is visited by his mother. She knows his ability is what killed his father and he can see her at the moment of death because of this ability. Tim imagined the creature into existence after hearing the story and it killed his father. This also explains why he can see the girl.

The things in his room provide fuel for his imagination for the things in the movie ... when he starts thinking about his childhood house a bird flies in his car ... just like the model bird in his room.

The boogeyman is weakened when he smashes the model figure because the figure is what his mind used to give the monster a form.

As for the portals ... best I can do there is that in Tim's mind his creation can travel through the darkness of closets, doors etc. from place to place. As a result so can he. The portals become real. And because Tim manifests things with his mind, when he wants to see what happened to the victims, he imagines that he will come out at that time and he does.

So in summary. The creature is real. Tim created the creature with his mind when he was kid and let it loose on the town. Since it was created by his mind only he could destroy it, by destroying all the things from his childhood that he used to summon it in the first place.

[–] robinrok 18 years ago

You're explanation makes more sense than the damn movie did!! Thanks!!!

[–] mafiosoromano 18 years ago

What about all the people the Boogeyman took? What are their fates? Gone forever? The movie didn't really tie that loose end up at all.

[–] Erinlizbeth 18 years ago

Even in the first 30 or 40 minutes into the movie, it makes no sense and is confusing. You see his Dad flying through the air and taken (killed?) by the boogeyman but later you hear he left them. Maybe he flew to the land of Oz.

Every time you turn around, expect to see me, 'cause one time you'll turn around and I'll be there.

[–] soccerdog693 18 years ago

I think they told everyone he left because it sounds much more logical than "the boogeyman ate him".

[–] soerenjhm 18 years ago

wow sherlock! you figured that out all by you´re self??

[–] jessbott 18 years ago

Alright, the theory sounds great and all. But.... when he is talking to the ghost girl and is going into the abandoned house, he talks about how he used to talk to the man that lived there. Then he said something like everyone in town thought he was crazy. His daughter disappeared. Well, to me that means that the ghost girl disappeared before his dad did. So how could he have "made" the boogeyman?

Yes..... I know..... too much time on my hands. But there you have it.

[–] tessfr 18 years ago

Besides, the bit after the credits kinda hinted that the boogeyman came back...

[–] fleshofthewicked 17 years ago

not really a theory so much as it is the plot of the movie. The boogeyman is only real because the kid was so scared it was he brought it to life. it's not really a movie about the boogeyman it's a movie about a kid who can bring things to life with his mind.

[–] egomonster-1 17 years ago

Excellent theory. It has more thought and planning than the entire script.

As to the teaser at the end and the ghost girl who was taken before him. Perhaps they are psychic too. Surely he is not the only one with this ability, although those children's boogeyman will be created from things out of their bedrooms.

I'm really trying to think of something I liked about this movie. It had decent pacing, I guess, considering the lack of plot, and Lucy Lawless.

Maybe if Adam West played the Boogeyman...

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[–] lakealice 8 years ago

OK. I understand that he created the boogeyman through his imagination, but why wouldn't the creature have come after him instead of all those other people? It's not like he wanted them gone-- and why a whole bunch of little girls that he presumably didn't even know? To me it doesn't make sense, even in the horror movie universe.