This October ‘Cucuy: The Boogeyman’ Is Coming To SyFy

September 21, 2018

Written by Kelli Marchman McNeely

Kelli Marchman McNeely is the owner of HorrorFuel.com. She is an Executive Producer of "13 Slays Till Christmas" which is out on Digital and DVD and now streaming on Tubi. She has several other films in the works. Kelli is an animal lover and a true horror addict since the age of 9 when she saw Friday the 13th. Email: horrorfuelinfo@gmail.com


 
 
 
Cucuy: The Boogeyman is coming to SyFy this October! Hybrid Entertainment’s original movie is a timely twist on the indelible legend of a story young children are told by their mothers about a Latin American boogeyman known as the Cucuy who would come at night to snatch misbehaving children and take them back to his cave to be eaten.

Directed by Peter Sullivan (who helmed Stan Lee’s The Sandman, SyFy’s runaway hit last October), this highly anticipated seasonal gem is set in fictional Glimmer Peak, the kind of small town where nothing ever happens.

As the Cucuy, the Mexican Boogeyman, is known for preying on misbehaving children, we chose to revolve the story around a troubled teen currently on house arrest, says director Sullivan. We shot in an abandoned neighborhood on the site of a former state hospital in Pomona, CA. The facility, no longer in use, provided an additional uneasy quality to the film’s aesthetic,” he emphasized.

 
 

 
 

“The holiday offering begins with the local police department finds itself off guard when the town is hit by a series of unexplainable child abductions. With no witnesses, no evidence, and no discernible connection between the missing children, the local Sheriff (Brian Krause) has reached a dead end. “Riverdale’ star Marisol Nichols (below) is cast as beleaguered, widowed mother, ‘Rebecca,’ who is monitoring daughter ‘Sofia,’ portrayed by Jearnest Corchado, who with her younger sister, ‘Amelia’ (young actress Bella Stine) is stuck under house arrest.  With plenty of free time on her hands and nothing better to do, Sofia begins a daily ritual of spying on her immediate neighbors, including Murphy (Pedro Correa), her former classmate and crush; and her mysterious new neighbor Boyd (Jack Erdie).

Unable to leave her house, she nonetheless finds that her bedroom window provides the perfect place from which to investigate the mysterious disappearances plaguing her small town. Her touching relationship with her younger, hearing-impaired sister (Bella Stine) provides much of the film’s heart, especially when the latter finds herself targeted by the supernatural terror (Mick Ignis). Suddenly their mother (Nichols), already working double shifts to keep a roof over their heads, has to confront a very different type of challenge.”

Is it possible that the Cucuy has come to Glimmer Peak? Find out when Cucuy: The Boogeyman premieres on SyFy Saturday, October 13th (7p/6p CT).

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