Thank you for watching guys! Hope you enjoyed!

As the male parent of a youngling, I honestly don't understand characters that know their offspring are scared of something or know they are in danger and do nothing.

“Throw a furby at it”. Honestly a 10/10 idea. Boogymen have a hierarchy and they know that the furby is at the top of that totem pole of fear

21:38 "As it's mouth got me acting unwise" Roanoke about to pull a "You got a purdy mouth" on the Boogeyman

Fun fact. Better color vision = poorer darkness vision. So by seeing more color, you can’t see as well at night. Rods also take 30ish seconds to “turn off/on” which is why you need time to acclimate to sudden light changes , and get those black spots in your vision when staring at lights

I like how the creature isn’t necessarily weak to light like a vampire, it’s more like because it’s eyes are so well adapted to darkness that what we humans consider a normal light level is basically a flash bang for it

Imagine letting someone that threw food on your deceased mother’s dress into your home. Couldn’t be me. That person’s face would have become acquainted with the locker on the spot, repeatedly. I haven’t seen the film, but I imagine it’s difficult to empathize with a character that is a walking doormat.

As a girl that dealt with bullies with violence, I eventually learned that all it did was get me in trouble. Didn’t matter if the bully had touched me first, or was chasing me around before I turned around and let them run into my fist, I was the one punished and not them. If she had taken a swing at the bullies, more than likely no one would get in trouble purely because her mom had died recently. Or, She would still get in trouble because grief isn’t an excuse, and the bullies still wouldn’t get in trouble because it was just yogurt and didn’t cause physical damage to the girl herself. I hated school so much.

Its kind of funny how, probably because we instinctively fear the dark we instinctively love fire last i checked most animals are scared of fire because it tends to burn out of control but because we learned how to control it (most of the time) and it produces light, scares off predators, and is very good at killing things (and as a bonus, making them more edible) its our go to problem solver for monsters and spooky things

unfortunately as a former teenage girl i can tell you that people 100% show up to things hosted by someone they hate just to ruin it for them. teenage girls are literally the cruelst creatures on earth

One HUGE flaw with the fear of the dark. Walking through a neighborhood at night as opposed to day, things look more haunting and scary. Why would we see the same thing different? I would think that we would need to easily recognize actual changes to spot potential predators and perceived changes would interfere with that. Its almost like our brains hate us.

When you mentioned how the creature could've been around since caveman days, it made me think of uncanny valley and how the theory is there was some predator back then that would look ALMOST like us.

i believe the most human thing someone can do is look at the thing in the abyss, either with the reaction of "GET OVER HERE!" and rush after it, or a group of people staring into the abyss, seeing the monster in the abyss and having the reaction of "there it is! get it!" both with the end goal of kicking the crap out of it, humanity number one baby

The therapist fathers 5th “dayum that’s craaazy” killed me dude loving it.

I think I came to the realization that I'm officially an adult when I realized that I'm no longer afraid of the dark and the purported things lurking in it, because if they kill me, it means I don't have to worry about paying the bills or my own mental state trying to off me anymore.

As a father, you have a duty to protect your kids. Even if there's nothing there, it's very important to a young child's development that if they come to you because they are legitimately scared of something, you need to show them that you take it seriously. That being said, you also need to encourage them so they can grow. You don't want to trap them in a state of helplessness where they think mommy and daddy need to come in and solve every problem.

As someone who suffers from horrific hallucinations and night terrors about monsters (I've never had sleep paralysis, amusingly), this movie's monster having clear supernatural powers but not using them more makes me more nervous than what it actually does on screen.

"Stalking individuals" "Can snap your neck like a twig" "This creature thrives in darkness, hunting man, and is incredibly durable." SCP 173 has breached containment.

15:02 I had a sleep paralysis once where there were just a couple of voices in the corner of my room out of sight but they were having basically a podcast just talking about random conspiracy theories and geopolitical bullshit I literally coudn't have cared less about at 3am when I had to wake up at 5am and effectively managed to break out of sleep paralysis just to tell them to shut up

Also worth noting that this was a Stephen King short story and his cosmos is referenced towards the end when one of the characters says "it was here from the beginning". Plenty of his creatures feed on souls especially younglings

7:30 nah we throwing hands elbows knees and toes. Also the design of the creature really reminds me of the Until Dawn Wendigos.

Fun fact: the actor Lester plays is also in Ant-Man and the Wasp, where he mentions The Boogeyman when he talks about Ghost.

i've always wondered what does fear look like if humans evolved with the ability to see in the night. it seems so simple, but the entire course of our development could have been different if we were able to continue working just the same as we could during the day before the wonders of electricity or even oil lamps.

As a child I use to be afraid of the dark majorly (still am to a extent) whenever I would get scared I'd start acting tough and cussing into the shadows an squareing up like I was boutta scrap a ghost... idk why but it helped

In the book, the Boddgieman was the Therapist. Using that form to find weak minded people. But you'd think, that after several of their clients ..um... disappeared, that people would be less likely to sign up.

I've actually heard of Vaan der Waals force before, and my ears perked up at its mention! The Haven Troopers in MGS4, also called FROGs, are able to cling to walls and other surfaces. Otacon deduced it was either suction cups, or something utilizing Van der Waals force to achieve that effect.

I absolutely hate you for making me laugh so much at the 'Peepee Poopoo man hiding behind your closet door" line. I guess no matter how old you get, we are all secretly 12 inside, lmao.

As someone who is still afraid of the dark even as an adult this movie is like my worst nightmare

8:20 Ah yes, the Winchester Brothers special for dealing with anything weird 😂

I'd love to fully understand how our brains respond to darkness. As a kid, I was always terrified of the dark and would sprint away any time I had to turn the light off. After about 15, that fear was replaced with comfort. Now, if ever I need to chill, I'll go into a room and turn off all the lights. Being in darkness has become a massive comfort and I've always wondered why my brain suddenly shifted to finding comfort instead of fear in the dark. Heck, as I write this I'm sat in a pitch-black room with only my laptop's light. I know other people find that same comfort in the dark and I would love to know WHY some people are terrified and some people are comforted. They seem like absolute polar opposite reactions that can be exhibited by the same person in different time frames. There's probably an obvious answer as to why but I just don't know it yet.

Can’t get over the fact I heard Roanoke say “The Peepee poopoo man” god I love life

9:10 When you talked about how your parent’s lights produced light but rooms still look dark it could be from the wave length of the bulbs interacting poorly with colours that make up the room. Like if you have a green bulb in a red room the room would look almost black but if said bulb produced red light the room would look like it’s glowing.

I actually had a, I guess a midnight encounter that I've been scratching my head over for years. I was around 7 at the time and I woke up in the middle of the night, as I often did back then. I sat up in my bed before seeing a teddy bear sized shadow creature with glowing red eyes. We kind of just stared at each other for a few seconds before it ran and jumped out the window. I sat there for good few minutes before laying back down and pulling the covers over my head. I never saw it again, and I've never experienced anything similar to that since. I did have hallucinations back then but none of them behaved anything like that. Most of the hallucinations I had were usually just static images that never really moved. And I found that when I focused on them they would just fade away. This thing did none of that. I've kind of ruled out sleep paralysis because I sat up in my bed before I even noticed something was weird. And I really don't think it was a dream as I remember feeling the sheets over my head. Also it was just way too tame for it be one LSD hellscapes my brain makes me experience a regular basis.

The idea that is wearing a caveman skin is pretty cool, would be even cooler if we could actually see the thing, why film makers insist in doing such dark movies I don't know, like yeah not seeing something can be horror inducing, not being able to see anything when its within kissing distance isn't

I will say, as a former teen girl myself, and having autism which REALLY adds to the ape brain I had at that age, that I’ve gone into tard rage mode over having water flicked at me. So guarantee that if I was wearing my dead mother’s dress and some girl bully had gotten spoiled food on it, I’d have gone full chimp mode on her. This girl seems TOO passive. Edit: I should clarify in this original comment so people don't think I'm some kind of raging psycho: I do realize it was wrong and I control my anger much better now, lol.

The forward facing eyes being a hallmark of a species being predatory is more a mammals/birds thing, it falls apart pretty readily in every other taxonomic class. Crocodiles, snakes, monitor lizards, sharks, and cephalopods having examples of large predators with eyes positioned on the sides of their heads.

2:14 it’s nice to know we’ve upgraded from throwing rocks to throwing furbies. Honestly it makes sense, fight fire with fire, fight dark entities with one of your own

A few months ago my mom told me my great uncle had the genetic predisposition to where weed triggers schizophrenia. Since I was about to head off to university I assume she decided that it was a good time. Needless to say, she did a very good job of making sure I never do drugs.

I used to be terrified of the dark until I watched Baki when I was 15, fear of the unknown is nothing before overwhelming muscle men

the "just like my house" bit actually made me not afraid for like a solid 30 seconds cause i couldnt stop laughing and was clutching my stomach. anyway very nice video its always a treat when you upload keep up the excellent work my guy.

I’ve come to realize that I’m far less fearful in the dark (I have nyctophobia so it’s naturally worse than the average fear) when I have one of my pets with me. Be it my cat or my rabbit, I’m immediately more at ease because I know that they’re at ease, and they’d know if something is wrong because they’re animals that can sense these kinds of things.

Be a horror movie cop Hear the screams of a Eldritch horror "Must have been the wind."

I just want to thank you again for your channel. It’s something I look forward to during the week. Doesn’t matter if I’ve seen the movie or not your commentary always makes me laugh and gives me that sweet, sweet dopamine

23:59 JUST LIKE MY HOUSE

Roanoke doesn't disappoint with his timing. Thanks for another one!

I lost my dad when i was 15 and kids are shitheads that lack empathy. I was too depressed to stand up for myself. That scene 💯 tracked for me.

Also, in our modern age of blue light, you have the weirdos that work noc shifts and cant sleep during the night but pass out when the sun comes up

I was the soldier they'd send out into the Dark to make it safe for everyone else. My child grew up never demonstrating fear of the Night or Dark and when she was old enough I told her why the things that go bump in the Night tip-toe around me.

I can't blame kids for being afraid of the dark... as a GenXr, I also grew up fearing the boogeyman in my early years. A night light is just a small kindness we owe our little ones (IMHO), but, to each their own 🤷‍♀ Awesome video!

Fun fact there is another boogeyman movie it was 2005 when it came out and there is this one scene in the film were a guy is shooting Boogeyman with a nail gun

Honestly, aslong as i can fight something my fear of it drastically goes down. Of course that doesnt mean im not shit scared of the creatures in my mind or the possible animals that could maul and kill me, but knowing i could fight them and protect the ones i care about or myself if forced into a confrontation, is instantly a fear reliever.

Gotta love the explanation about souls while seeing the film of someones eye being cut off. Great imagery there. I suppose that if the eye is the window to the soul you just showed us opening the shutter.

the term for those kinds of really dim bulbs is known as non-radiant glow. more of a warm candle glow. I hate it too.

I adore your meticulous scientific dissection of abstract apparitions, supernatural entities and other beings of a mythological nature. You give feasible coherence and deductible speculation to such intangible ambiguities! I love these kinds of reviews! 🧑‍🔬👨‍⚕️🧙‍♂️🔮🧚🧞🧜‍♀️🐉

As I saw in another video before. You are not afraid of being alone in the dark; you are afraid of not being alone in the dark. Also, this movie made me think of Darkness Falls. Where the Tooth Fairy who doesn't like the light stays in the dark to kill her victim.

Hey just wanna thank ya my man! You got me Interested in a field I never thought I would be. Started my career in phlebotomy not to long ago and just gotta say your videos helped me understand the body and blood flow pretty well. Looking to continue my education and not just be a blood jockey.

Absolutely love the opening where you discussed primal fears and our instinct to be nervous about the dark. Love that stuff. I actually wrote an article for Morbidly Beautiful in 2019 on why horror is so appealing to some people and talked about similar details. Great work and don't worry about the science. We are already in Boogeyman territory so considering that, your presentation was sound 😊

To be fair to primapes losing their dark accustomed eyes (all mammals descend from nocturnal creaturea during the dinosaurs), that mass extinction down to the modern day has meant there was less threat and more opportunity for food in the morning. So it makes perfect sense to focus on improving daylight vision (although we pale in comparison to true day swellers like birds) at the expense of night vision, where all you need 99% of the time is to see two feet in front of you in your cave.

Can we take into consideration how freaking metal the Boogeyman's design is in this movie? I'm just saying, that thing would not be out of place in Cannibal Corpse or Infant Annihilator cover art.

Recently watched this movie after watching the video (completely unintentional) and I must say. Watching this movie with Roanoke’s observations and theories on the creature provided a fun experience

I have to agree that her doing nothing about her mother's dress getting food on it was frustrating. I get not wanting to start a fight and being emotionally fragile she may just not have been in the head space to lash out at her but.... I almost ripped a kids ear off and clawed his face because I got grabbed. I almost broke another person's finger for touching my thighs. And I kicked a kid in the face for trying to crawl under a bus seat to mess with me.... I dunno I get it but at the same time I wish she had done more to begin with.

We spent centuries getting dragged into the darkness by colossal critters. The fear is very rational. As children we are weak and need help. Sadly, i can find no proof of anything supernatural despite my life being utterly devoted to it.

20:23 as an ex-teenage female youngling this is normal behaviour. Once i was at a friends birthday party and after i told them i had claustrophobia, they locked me in a closet until i had a severe panic attack and one of the girls parents came to see what was going on. Catholic all girls school was fun, we all hated each other.

I honestly though they did the boogeyman aspect really well. Like there were moments that were unsettling, but my gripe lies with the characters. More-so the father, which through out pissed me off from his actions towards his daughters, straight up making fun of their genuine anxieties from the creature and overall just not being an emotionally appealing character. I understand he’s also grieving but every choice he made/word said was one folly after another, and there were too many moments in the movie where I was thinking that, “he’s not human, just human-like” and no better than an actual monster especially to his kids. Really had me feeling indifferent if he was a casualty but I mean I guess it wouldn’t benefit the story, it would’ve just traumatized his daughters even further 🤷🏻‍♂️

Roanoke: "Oh by the way, my wife is a therapist and has her own channel--" Me: "WHY WASN'T I TOLD THIS EARLIER?!"

I am 34 and still don't like to sleep with my closet door open or even cracked. I use to spend a lot of time at my grandparents in the middle room was the guest room and they had this high closet space that had no door. I use to have trouble sleeping at night thinking something was always looking down on me, waiting and watching. I miss that time, just not that room. Love your channel and come to enjoy just listening to your reviews / clips on movies as background when playing games or Mtg. Your humor and breakdowns of movies are very good. Please keep it up!

Bro @25:48...if that is your office for real, congratulations you appear to be winning the game of life!

There was another movie in the early 2000's also called The Boogeyman that my mom and I watched as a youngling, resulting in a fear of the dark/closets. The good part that of all that is I always sleep with a weapon near me and no longer fear the dark, nor what lurks within

And remember everyone No one is afraid of the dark Theyre afraid of NOT being alone in it.

Roanoke: "But where did it come from?" My brain: "Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?"

If you happen to see one account obsessively binging your channel, that's me 😂 I love horror movies, I'm a Georgia girl, and I'm a huge nerd for science, so I just wanted to thank you for being awesome, giving our state some love, and being one of my all time comfort channels that can make me feel better even on a bad day. You do horror fans and Georgia folk proud while making the science feel accessible to the less intelligent like myself so please keep at it!

In the original Stephan King novel, it has the readers believing more and more with each chapter that the douche of a dad was crazy and straight up murdered this three kids, one after another, and began blaming it on a non-existent creature, including himself believing this more and more, and that is the final conclusion in the final chapter… until the final paragraph and sentence, when the therapist suddenly reaches up to his own face and peals it off revealing it be a mask and that the therapist the dad has been talking was the Boogyman itself all along… a reveal more jarring and unexpected out of left field than Darth Vader revealing who he really was to Luke.

Roanoke are you ever going to do Deep Rock Galactic’s glyphids and other creatures of hoxxes 4? Because they could be fun. Also be a interesting chance to talk about eusocial creatures and caste systems

Man I am happy for this cover, mainly because in all honesty this was a first horror movie in years that god me spooked without a jumpscare. It really is a dying art

Awesome video, dude! I love these deep dives into the major supernatural stuff. A bit of an obscure one, but I’d recommend checking out the Evil Thing from RL Stine’s The Haunting Hour: Don’t think about it.

Roanoke calling his wife a nerd made me roll on the floor 💀💀💀

The fact that I live the early parts of this movie is kinda freaky (monster wise, my mom is fine). I have a pretty big fear of the dark, mostly because of my overactive imagination and reoccurring sleep issues, which leads to me occasionally being tired enough to start having visual and auditory hallucinations. So I've seen movement in my own room at night, I've heard voices, and I've seen shapes of humanoids in the darkness. I'm also hella forgetful, and so despite making a point of closing all doors out of and in my room every night, I've occasionally gone to bed only to notice a door being wide open (Worst, thing, ever). That's all science tho. The part that is *currently* freaking me out is that for about as long as I can remember I've had this image of "the thing in the darkness". Which I know I didn't get from anywhere, because part of what made it so scary for me growing up was that it wasn't from a movie or something, it was from my own head. With time I've learned to more or less deal with my fears as I've learned more about what causes them (such as the things mentioned at first). But... and you might have guessed it by now, but the image I had/have of "the thing in the darkness", pretty much exactly looks like this monster. Reversed limbs, weird mouth parts and all... So yeah... going to bed's gonna be fun tonight.

any chance you'd cover how Tyranids from Warhammer 40K might work biologically? id love to see it but otherwise great video, keep up the amazing content

Cats are really the best counter to fear of the dark; any and every bump, crash, and misc noise just gets the response of "STOP THAT" as the little furry bogarts cause chaos.

I was scared of the dark for something like 12 years or so, and can still remember the initial cause of it, but didn't understand until very recently what actually happened. Long story short, I had a sleep paralysis episode when I was 2 or 3 years old, and that experience messed me up for a long while.

Hey papa roanoke, I took your advice on college and it's really helped. Just wanted to update you and say thanks man. I'm still young and figuring things out so your advice is greatly appreciated

7:45 as I've never lost an extremely close loved one, especially not at such an early age, I wouldn't know the appropriate response myself. However, I do know that all my friends and family who have been there before would absolutely start throwing elbows right to the back of people's skulls like a Muay Thai world champion if someone defaced a remembrance from their loved one like that

Hey Roanoke, I know you probs wont see this but, I’ve always felt more comfortable in the dark. Small, dark enclosed spaces make me feel very comfortable. Dark forests at night, dark alleyways, etc. I always feel like I’m hidden and only seen if I want to be. But in the daytime I’m uncomfortable, able to be seen from anywhere. I hate the daytime, and I hate wide open areas that are brightly lit. I often accidentally jump scare my friends because I’m so quiet, and I hate making any sort of noise. Nighttime feels more peaceful, and I feel more in control at night.

Thank you Roanoke your videos have become my absolute favorite things to watch nowadays. It brings a cool science and logic based reality to genre movie monsters and game creatures that people would otherwise say that "they could never exist". Keep up the awesome work!

Ah, I was wondering for, about 24 minutes of this video, why everything looked like shadows with that really crummy blue filter over it. I’m glad he finally brought it up and confirmed that it was indeed the movie and not an editing choice he made. For some unfathomable reason.

I was a weird child as I liked the dark. My brain reasoned, if I can't see it, it can't see me. Though interestingly in adult life I've found my eyes are more sensitive to light than normal, to the point I need sunglasses even at dusk. Because the light hurts my eyes Now I work at night and sleep during the day so hardly see daylight

Funny thing about painters are that they have lots of flammable things in their house. Their paint thinners are generally acetone, their paints are very flammable since most paints are oil or alcohol base. Most paint cleaners are alcohol base and not to mention the stuff they paint on are generally thin flimsy pieces of wood and fabric. So yeah if a painters house ever catches on fire it will light up faster than a gasoline laced burning man concert.

Man I really like your explanations regarding the biology and science of what could or is no doubt supernatural. Thoroughly enjoyed the analysis around 17:30 to 18:00. I can imaging piecing these together to be tons of fun!

While I was a teenage girl once upon a time, I can't say I've lost my mom. Still, I'm pretty sure I would've thrown hands in that situation.

The real question here is how the hell does Roanoke know about The PeePee-PooPoo Man? Did he cover him before? How did he know The PeePee-PooPoo Man hides behind doors? Astonishing!

Honestly these videos are just seeing Roanoke's vault of random memes and images he gets to put into videos to enrich it

Okay you just earned yourself a subscriber *my jimmies would have been rustled* I haven't heard that from someone else since 2014

I’ve lived long enough to know that no “boogey man” is lurking in my house or outside. I sleep alone and am always usually by myself, (sad, I know. Lol) with that being said 27 years and it’s usually nothing more than imagination. I am way more afraid of animals than I am of anything supernatural or superstitious.

Knowing the type of humor in your videos (which I love btw), I always half expect the "Where did it come from" to be followed by "Where did it go". 5/7 would watch again

lol your energy levels are amazing. I love how you transition from talking about the movie to giving a science/biology lecture in all these videos I just randomly found. Very entertaining for sure.

20:44 I don't think i've ever laughed so hard at someone saying "niehhhh gross"

The sleep paralysis part got me. I threw a knife into my door once after a paralysis nightmare attack back in my teens

Pushing that 1 mill Roanoke! Keep up the good work!

I’ve been watching you for a very long time Roanoke! Love that you do research and get very detailed with these videos. I’ve seen the film, and watched so many reviews of the film after, and I never realized when I watched/not one person who reviewed the film, brought to light that the creature was a monster wearing a husk. I never realized while watching, that it showed another face inside of itself, let alone that was hands an an entire arm that came out of its mouth at the end 😅

18:35 It was the first jumpscare in so many years that made me actually jump