I remember visual snippets from select moments of Boogeyman, but nothing at all of the film's storyline or characters. Those memorable snippets include an almost comically unnerving action figure (i.e. doll) in the film's opening scene, a tormented soul encased in what looked to be Saran Wrap, a nightmarish hallucination, or dream, involving the protagonist's deceased mother, and a post-credits scene, from the POV of the titular boogeyman, peeking through a cracked open door at a frightened child, who is calling for her mother because she has seen him. That's it.
Yet those snippets seemed to have left enough of an impression on me that I purchased this limited edition soundtrack album of Joseph LoDuca's score for the film, despite my having no idea or memory of what that score sounded like. Turns out that was by design.
"...the Evil Dead films [were] musically big [and] fun as hell," director Stephen Kay remarks in Daniel Schweiger's liner notes. "Yet Boogeyman was going to be very different, because we wanted to get inside [the main character's] head."
This approach resulted in a score with melodic sections woven through a soundscape of ambient dissonance that creates what Schwieger describes as a "continuous mood of tension and pending doom."
Which is a good explanation for why this score is one I notice and appreciate in snippets, but not as a cohesive whole.
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