The bogeyman, boogyman, bogyman, boogey monster, or boogeyman, is a folklore or legendary ghostlike monster often believed in by children. The bogeyman has no specific appearance whatsoever, and can in fact vary drastically from household to household within the same community; in many cases he simply has no set appearance in the mind of a child, but is simply an amorphous embodiment of terror. Bogeyman can be used metaphorically to denote a person or thing of which someone has an irrational fear. Parents often say that if their child is naughty, the bogeyman will get them, in an effort to make them behave. The bogeyman legend may originate from Scotland, where such creatures are sometimes called bogles, boggarts, or bogies.
Perhaps its ambiguity is what makes it so frightening. An example of the fear of the unknown. I think everyone has their own personal boogeyman, or fear of the unknown.
Perhaps it is a way of personifying death, an extremely grey or unknown subject for mortals to think about... so why not just call it the Boogeyman!?
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Yes! Some of the best horror movies or suspense movies of all time do not reveal the monster or the fear. It is toyed with, it is alluded to. It feeds on the imaginations of the viewer allowing them to embody that fear in their own horrific way.
This can be a cool effect, of a body or series of bodies reacting to a fear that is not scene, but is placed somewhere over the heads of the audience. Or behind someone or invisible causing inanimate bodies to move across the floor.
The fool machine collective is my log in name, just so ya' know.
John
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