Favorite "Boogie Man" Character

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-25 12:08am

Not most powerful, most evil, but Favorite "Boogie Man" Character in a movie or Book.

Ok for my answer: Robert "Boo" Radley in To Kill a Mocking Bird, scares the hell out of the kids the whole book, and then saves Scout from some Klansmen, who are all too scared of his "Reputation" to face down a 6'6" learning deficiant male in his twenties.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2002-10-25 12:09am

Pennywise the clown...I am fucking TERRIFIED of clowns and boy did King play into that fear in his finest book IT.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-25 12:11am

Pennywise: *Shudders*: clowns & SPIDERS at the same time.....

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2002-10-25 12:31am

A bit offtopic: My english teacher said yesterday that when his kids told him they were afraid of the boogeyman hiding in the dark, he told them that a real boogeyman wouldn't hide in the cold for someone to walk by, but would break into the house and shoot them all.

Great guy.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-25 12:35am

I guess that means I can put down Drugged up gangbangers or Charles Starkweather for his boogie man of choice....

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-10-25 07:42am

Stravo wrote:Pennywise the clown...I am fucking TERRIFIED of clowns and boy did King play into that fear in his finest book IT.

argh, pennywise!!! i saw the movie when i was around 10 and i still fucking hate clowns!
the scene in which the clown comes out of the book.......

RadiO · Post by **RadiO** » 2002-10-25 08:06am

The Nightmare Man from Child of the Vodyanoi (aka The Nightmare Man) by David Wiltshire. A terrifying masked killer stumbling around a remote Scottish island, leaving bloody carnage in his wake.

SPOILER SPACE...

He's actually a Soviet Special Forces man in a pressure suit, sent utterly mad by a man-machine interface experiment. That sounds really corny, doesn't it? But it isn't, because the killer remains scary even after his true nature is revealed - in fact, he probably becomes more frightening if anything. That's skillful writing.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-25 08:21am

Boogyman? IE Evil Crazy person?

I've got one

Tongpu
Aka
Peirrot Le Fou

I'd like to see anyone top him....

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-25 08:55am

Fuck yeah, Bean. When I saw that episode, I was totally freaked out. It was an hour later before I actually would go to bed.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-25 08:58am

Stravo wrote:Pennywise the clown...I am fucking TERRIFIED of clowns and boy did King play into that fear in his finest book IT.

I had a friend in college reading IT. She had taken her little sister to the library and read while her little sister was looking at books. So, she's reading along and well, she's become paranoid around every corner, looking for a clown. Her little sister brings up a Curious George book and asks if she can check it out. My friend flips through the book and comes across a page showing how to make a paper boat. She said she immediately looked around since she'd read that part just prior to her sister coming up.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2002-10-25 09:17am

The worst boogyman I ever remember was Silence in The Giver novels - don't remember the author. It was a thriller about a guy who doesn't just kill his victims, he makes them vanish (technically, they never find the bodies even at the end). Anyway, he continually makes people just seem to vanish into thin air one at a time. He managed a rediculous body count, too. And without the traditional horror-book exclamation point of finding the mutilated corpses ceremoniously strung up, it was pretty creepy for me. Chalk it up to good writing.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-25 02:23pm

In a simular vein. Jeff Goldblum as "Mr. Frost" (English Serial Killer, or The Real Mr. Scratch you decied)

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2002-10-25 04:07pm

Peirrot Le Fou... I admire the characters madness, but if I meet him in real life in some back ally I'd be most affraid...

"They just kept smiling and singing as they killed them all... those bastards sang as they killed them all..."

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2002-10-25 04:08pm

"The Gentlemen" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Their grins, the silence and the floating around just give me the creeps.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-25 05:14pm

Mr Bean wrote:Boogyman? IE Evil Crazy person?

I've got one

Tongpu
Aka
Peirrot Le Fou

I'd like to see anyone top him....

I'm with you, Bean. That guy freaked me out, especially with his laughing.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-10-25 05:35pm

RE: Mad Pierrot

Fuckin A.