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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