Highest-Rated Movies about 'Boogeyman'

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Halloween (1978), True Grit (1969), Rise of the Guardians (2012), It (2017), March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934), Performance (1970), The Botany of Desire (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Boogeyman movies.

#1. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Storyline: Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween Town to help him put on Christmas instead of Halloween -- but alas, they can't get it quite right.

Plot Keywords: christmas movie, christmas, halloween, gothic, stop motion animation, no opening credits, witch ...

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#2. Halloween (1978)

Storyline: The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween. No one knows, nor wants to find out, what will happen on October 31st 1978 besides Myers' psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis. He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the time the town realizes it, it'll be too late for many people.

Plot Keywords: halloween, year 1978, punishment, dead dog, violence, strangulation, halloween costume ...

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#3. True Grit (1969)

Storyline: The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy, Mattie Ross, (Kim Darby), on a mission of "justice", which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne), because he has "grit", and a reputation of getting the job done. The two are joined by a Texas Ranger, La Boeuf, (Glen Campbell), who is looking for the same man (Jeff Corey) for a separate murder in Texas. Their odyssey takes them from Fort Smith, Arkansas, deep into the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) to find their man.

Plot Keywords: revenge, alcoholic, based on novel, based on book, texas ranger, texas, revisionist western ...

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#4. Rise of the Guardians (2012)

Storyline: When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs, and imaginations of children all over the world.

Plot Keywords: based on book, snowball fight, sled, snow, ice, legend, tooth ...

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#6. March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)

Storyline: Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>

Plot Keywords: forced marriage, toy soldier, sheep, well, lifting someone into the air, young love, wedding ...

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#7. Performance (1970)

Storyline: Chas, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. He finds the perfect cover in the form of guest house run by the mysterious Mr. Turner, a one-time rock superstar, who is looking for the right spark to rekindle his faded talent.—Brad Jackson

Plot Keywords: basement, sex, acid, shared bath, whipping, nudity, male female relationship ...

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#8. The Botany of Desire (2009)

Storyline: Chuck Peterson is a young slacker with big dreams. Disowned by his family and ignored by his peers, he diligently pursues his dreams of writing a fantastic children's book to become famous and strike it rich. But due to a bipolar disorder and lack of creative talent, he slums his way through life relying on small time scams to keep himself afloat. When his gangster roommate makes him an offer he can't refuse, Chuck immediately takes the chance to clear himself of all his debts. But things go from bad to worse when the plan makes Chuck a prime murder suspect among a plethora of pornographers and terrorists!—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: independent film, nightmare, film within a film, restraining order, machete, boogeyman, mental illness ...

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#9. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

Storyline: Picking up where the original Nightmare left off, Nancy has grown up and become a psychiatrist specializing in dream therapy. She meets a group of children at a local hospital facing Freddy Krueger, the same demon she once encountered in her sleep. One of them is Kristen, who has the power to draw other people into her dreams. Working with a male doctor assigned to the case, Nancy helps the kids realize their special abilities within the nightmare world. When Freddy captures one of her charges, she leads a rescue attempt into Krueger's domain, in hopes of putting his spirit to rest once and for all.

Plot Keywords: reference to edgar allan poe, corpse, dream within a dream, orderly, cut arm, nurse, slow motion scene ...

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#10. Halloween II (1981)

Storyline: After Doctor Samuel Loomis shoot's Michael Myer's Six Times and falls off a Balcony. Michael escapes and continues his massacre in Haddonfield, Laurie is also sent to the Hospital and Dr Loomis gathers a Group of Police Officers to hunt Down Michael and put an end to his Murderous Rampage.

Plot Keywords: hospital, lifting someone into the air, pantyhose, female stockinged feet, camera shot of feet, masked villain, paramedic ...

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#11. Halloween (2007)

Storyline: The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him?

Plot Keywords: serial killer, remake, female nudity, slasher, female full frontal nudity, female frontal nudity, female rear nudity ...

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#12. Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981)

Storyline: Months after Alice beheaded psycho killer/mother Pamela Voorhees at Camp Crystal Lake, survivor Alice is still traumatized because of the murders. But there is one problem: Mrs. Voorhees' son Jason never drowned and died, so he saw Alice behead Mrs. Voorhees. Jason finds Alice soon and murders her. Five years later, a camp counselor-in-training program begins at Packanack Lodge, right near Camp Crystal Lake. As teenagers in the program start snooping around Camp Crystal Lake, they start getting killed violently one by one.

Plot Keywords: pitchfork, ice pick, slasher, masked villain, terror, maniac, homicidal maniac ...

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#13. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

Storyline: Following up the previous Nightmare film, the dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills all three of the surviving Elm Street kids. However, Alice (who has the ability to draw others into her dreams) wills her special ability to her friend Alice before her demise. Afterwords, Alice soon realizes that Freddy is taking advantage of that unknown power she now wields to pull a new group of teenage children into his foul domain.

Plot Keywords: sleeping, theatre marquee, tough guy, stabbed in the stomach, supernatural power, underwater, rain ...

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#14. Sinister 2 (2015)

Storyline: Following the events from the first film, a different family; a mother and her 2 sons move into a rural house that's marked for death. When the deputy from the first film learns that this family is next in line to fall to the demon Bhughul, he races before time to stop it and save them from the same fate.

Plot Keywords: deputy, freeze to death, rat, tied feet, spider, ghost child, hanging upside down ...

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#15. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Storyline: Death stalks the dreams of several young adults to claim its revenge on the killing of Freddy Kruger. Chased and chastised by this finger-bladed demon, it is the awakening of old memories and the denials of a past of retribution that spurns this hellish vision of a dreamlike state and turns death into a nightmare reality.

Plot Keywords: child molestation, child molester, dream, pedophile, sexual predator, pedophilia, nightmare ...

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