Genre: Thriller/Supernatural
Director: Reed Morano
Writer: Clive Steinbeck
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Jeremy Renner, Kristen Connolly, Farrah Mackenzie, Jacob Tremblay, Cristin Milioti, Craig T. Nelson
Plot: While Carol Huffman (Kristen Connolly) works at home one night, a scaly monster abducts her son Andrew (Jacob Tremblay) by disguising itself as his teddy bear. Fortunately, audio of the entire event was recorded on the child monitor. Carol's daughter Audrey (Farrah Mackenzie) is the only witness, but she is so traumatized she cannot speak.
Police Detective Chris Derris (Jeremy Renner) is disturbed by the incident, so he sends for psychologist Sarah Clemens (Reese Witherspoon) to work with Audrey. She helps the child describe the scenario using dolls to play the parts, but her story seems to make no sense. Later, under hypnosis, Audrey says that the boogeyman pulled Andrew under the bed, and the two vanished. Her story upsets Sarah because it dredges up memories of how her own brother disappeared when she was a child.
That night the boogeyman, appearing as Andrew, beckons to Audrey to let it in through a window. At first she opens it, but when the boogeyman assumes its true appearance, Audrey slams the window shut on it. Carol comes to her daughter's rescue, but Audrey panics. In all the confusion, a lamp breaks, cutting both of them. Their screams prompt the neighbors to call the police who arrive. Seeing the blood, the police misinterpret the calamity as a child abuse situation. Chris takes Audrey into protective custody and keeps the child in his own home with his wife Heather (Cristin Milioti), a social worker.
Searching the house again, Chris finds the child monitor and more blood drops, all of which are sent to a lab. The test results are frightening. Analysis of the recording shows that one of the voices on it is inhuman. The blood sample has petrified and resembles prehistoric biomatter.
Sarah discusses her brother's death with her father Mitch (Craig T. Nelson) and finds many similarities between it and Andrew's abduction. Sarah also finds out that many children have disappeared without a trace over the years, and she decides to check the police computer records for unsolved cases. She discovers that most occurred when there was no moon meaning the boogeyman probably can only survive in the dark. Sarah and Chris must work fast because it's dark out and there is no moon in sight.
Sarah and Chris rush to his house, where Audrey is staying. They arrive just in time to see a partially visible figure grab the girl and race after her. Sarah enters a mine close by first, gun and flashlight in hand, Chris soon follows and finds Sarah appearing to be injured. Sarah then rounds the corner and sees Chris reaching towards a fake version of himself. The apparition morphs into a hideous bipedal creature, which the two eventually overpower and drag into the rising sun, where it turns into solid stone. A vengeful Sarah viciously destroys the petrified boogeyman with a piece of piping. The two then find Audrey bound and carry her out, promising to return her to her mother.
Meanwhile in France, a mother tells a little girl to stop jumping on the bed, which she does. However, the girl is not alone as evidenced by the glowing pair of eyes underneath the bed indicating that there is a boogeyman under her bed.
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