When Billings ( Dune's David Dastmalchian) arrives at their home - dishevelled and creepy, but begging to speak with someone - it's clear that we're looking at two people at different junctures of grief: One is a man deranged by it, the other a man intent on burying it. Their father, Will ( Air's Chris Messina), has returned to his psychiatry practice, helping patients process their own traumas - though we get the sense that he's ignoring his own. Sadie - dark, depressed, lonely - can barely make it through a day at school, while Sawyer can't sleep with the lights out. When we meet Sadie (Sophie Thatcher of Yellowjackets fame) and her younger sister, Sawyer ( Bird Box's Vivien Lyra Blair), they're a month on the other side of their mother's death. In the updated script by A Quiet Place screenwriting duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, Billings's story is mostly used as a springboard for a film that instead focuses on the psychiatrist and his two daughters. The original 18-page bloodcurdler centres on a man named Lester Billings who visits a psychiatrist after his children are murdered by a malevolent creature. Six years after the Stephen King adaptation industrial complex rumbled up to fifth gear with 2017's box office wonder It - and with it, a studio-led rush to mine every corner of the horror novelist's literary output, dollar babies be damned - an adaptation of his 1973 short story The Boogeyman, later published in the collection Night Shift, has hit theatres.
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