Boogeyman Pop
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Set over the course of one summer weekend, a bat-wielding, masked killer in a rusted- out black Cadillac weaves in and out of three interlocking stories awash in sex, drugs, punk rock, black magic, and broken homes.
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This movie was screened in festivals back in 2018 and was eventually picked up for distribution by Shudder, but it still has yet to be released and there's apparently a reason for that. Director Brad Michael Elmore spoke about the film and the distribution in a comment made here, where he said the following: "Boogeyman Pop and it’s status is a weird thing. It was not initially a Blumhouse movie. It was a guerilla made indie, that Blumhouse stepped in mid way through making it and gave us some finishing funds. It’s a strange little movie that isn’t really all that horror centric, it’s a 150k hangout movie, like Slacker, that takes place in a world where teen horror tropes sort of exist on the peripheral of the lives of these kids. It went to a few festivals. The reaction was mixed positive I’d say. It was set to be released by SHUDDER. The reasons it did not are Byzantine and I can’t really talk about them. But the short of it is this, due to its guerilla nature and some other internecine factors with Blumhouse, there was a problem with the deliverables, which are the legal documents that go along with a movie. Because the movie is so cheap, the potential cost of sewing all the legal up would be more than the cost of the movie and what I imagine Shudder might have paid for it. It’s certainly more complicated than that but that’s the shortest way to put it." He added... "It’s a huge heartbreak because so many people worked really hard on it and did a lot of really cool and interesting work. It also took years to make. I continue to hold out hope that one day I can get it out there to be seen. In my admittedly bias estimation it’s a worthy little psychedelic punk artifact of indie filmmaking." (2/10/25)
Filmed in Oregon.
Actor James Paxton is the son of the late Bill Paxton.
Executive produced by Chris Weitz (Rogue One screenwriter), who discovered writer/director Brad Michael Elmore's micro-budget debut The Wolfman's Hammer on Youtube, the film was eventually brought to the prolific Blumhouse team who hopped on board enthusiastically.