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Released
2005 · FILM

Boogeyman

A tormented young man returns to his childhood home to face the nightmarish Boogeyman that haunts his memories, only to discover that confronting the creature could finally reveal the truth behind his father's disappearance and save his sanity.

“You thought it was just a story.”

Directed by
Stephen Kay
Written by
Eric Kripke, Juliet Snowden
Runtime
89 min
DramaHorrorMystery

Synopsis

Every culture has one—the monstrous figure that haunts children's nightmares. For Tim, the Boogeyman remains a presence in his memories, tied to the moment 16 years ago when it supposedly devoured his father. The question remains: is the Boogeyman real, or did Tim create it as a way to understand why his father left the family.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John AxelradShot by Bobby BukowskiScored by Joseph LoducaDesigned by Robert Gillies

Box Office

2005 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$67.2M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$67.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $46.8M — 70% of worldwide · International: $20.4M (30%)

Opening weekend: $19.0M — 41% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $22.5M — 48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,052 theaters

Also known as

  • Boogeymande
  • Boogeyman - Der schwarze Mannde
  • Boogeyman - L'uomo neroit

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