Things go bump in the night, and then some, in "The Boogeyman," director Rob Savage's well-played horror exercise that alternately goes from slow and brooding to loud and booming. It's a movie ...

The Boogeyman Rated PG-13 for a hanging corpse, a malevolent molar and an evil whatsit. Running time: 1 hour 38 minutes. In theaters. The Boogeyman. Find Tickets.

There's a supernatural force at play here, that of the Boogeyman, here rendered as a wall-crawling demon monster, seen mostly in shadows for a good portion of the film's running time.

By then, “The Boogeyman” has mostly accomplished its mission, which is to say put audiences on the edge of their seats, wondering what horror will emerge from the darkness next.