Night Shyamalan-produced movie about a group of people trapped in an elevator.

While struggling to cope with the loss, Will throws himself back into work.

What exactly was it aboutThe Boogeymanthat made now the right time and this the right project?

Chris Messina Talks The Boogeyman

And then reading this script and talking to the director, Rob Savage.

He knows this genre so well, I felt like I was in great hands.

It made me leave having even more respect for the filmmakers and actors that do that on the regular.

Sophie Thatcher and Vivien Lyra Blair in The Boogeyman

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You know, it did!

Someone he learned a great deal from on the set ofThe Boogeyman?

Again, it sounds like nothing, but you do it, and it creates so much more tension.

Chris Messina as Will looking up from papers he was reading in The Boogeyman

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I would imagine going back to work that he would maybe take on different philosophies in therapy.

Maybe go even deeper.

And I would imagine that he would, hopefully, grow to be an even better dad.

Rob Savage and David Dastmalchian Making The Boogeyman

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Looking for even more on the making ofThe Boogeyman?

Be sure to check out my extended conversation with director Rob Savage below:

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