Children fear during the night that a monster or any other paranormal creature hides inside the closet, and is destined to frighten the child.

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The film is a take on the classic " boogeyman ", or monster in the closet.

The monster emerges from the closet and turns into various toys Tim was afraid of as a child.

He first appears as a murder of crows which Tim smashes the toy equivalent with a baseball bat sending the monster back to the closet.

The Boogeyman resurfaces as a electrical vortex trying to draw Tim into the closet once more, but Tim smashes the ball of electricity in a glass case the monster was mimicking.

The Boogeyman attempts to drag Tim back into a closet to kill him, but realizing that the monster is only posing as the figurine, Tim picks it up and slams the toy against a dresser, smashing the torso to pieces, causing the Boogeyman to suffer the same injury knocking the Boogeyman back toward the closet.

However, a post-credits scene reveals a young girl being tormented by the monster, revealing that the Boogeyman has resurfaced out of the closet.

The mutant monster begins by killing the doctor's assistant ; after feeding the monster and doing some general cleanup around the laboratory, he unwittingly stands before the hatch in the door of the monster's cell / closet ( which he accidentally left unlocked ), whereupon the monster thrusts his giant arm through and tears the assistant to pieces.

* The monster in the closet is played by Eddie Carmel in his first " cinematic role ".

A monster is any fictional creature, usually found in legends or horror fiction, that is often hideous and may produce fear or physical harm by either its appearance or its actions.

:"... and pale fear seized me, lest august Persephone might send forth upon me from out of the house of Hades the head of the Gorgon, that awful monster ..."( 11. 635 )

A mysterious entity, It is a monster of unknown origin which preys on Derry's children every three decades, stating It finds the fear in children akin to " salt ( ing ) the meat ".

Doomie is normally an affable and friendly creature, but due to the abnormal brain Beetlejuice gave him during his construction ( ala Frankenstein's monster ), Doomie transforms into a vicious " four-wheeled werewolf " type of monster in response to the presence of a Neitherworld dog near him, or to anger, fear, or the danger of his ' passengers ', somewhat like a vehicular Jekyll and Hyde ( correspondingly, even in his more sedate form he displays subtly dog-like traits such as panting, implying that he fills a pet-like role for Lydia and Beetlejuice ).

Its appearance on the castle at first brought terror to all but, after the fear had died down, a few brave townsfolk sought to destroy the fearsome monster.

When the Narrows in under the influence of Crane's fear gas, the population sees Batman as a monster flying in the sky, again similar to Man-Bat.

Without any aid from his allies, Superman defeats the monster on the anniversary of his original defeat of the creature at Washington D. C., exploiting the fact that Doomsday's new intelligence also gives him a fear of death that he had previously lacked.

The asylum staff, who hate and fear the aptly dubbed " monster ", only feed Killer Croc with animal carcasses once a week and confine him to an unused sewer underneath their facility, with an electrifying shock collar to discourage troublemaking.

The villagers lived in fear of being eaten by the monster and did not dare to sleep.

In Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed, he tells her about the monster that lives under the bed which rekindles her fear of monsters.

When he is the last Ranger left able to contend with the Goo Fish monster, Billy overcomes the spell and then, after helping to free his friends and defeat the monster, completely overcomes the fear itself on a fishing trip with Ernie, the owner of the Youth Center.

: A Christian burial, indeed, he received, though unworthy of it ; but it did not much benefit him: for issuing, by the handiwork of Satan, from his grave at night-time, and pursued by a pack of dogs with horrible barkings, he wandered through the courts and around the houses while all men made fast their doors, and did not dare to go abroad on any errand whatever from the beginning of the night until the sunrise, for fear of meeting and being beaten black and blue by this vagrant monster.

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Feyr, or Fihyr ( pronounced " fear ") is a fictional monster formed when residual magical energies combine with ordinary nightmares.

Their fear of the monster finding them becomes a reality and they are attacked by the forest monster, who goes by the name Baroaba.

It is revealed in " The Boogieman Cometh " that, as a child, Spengler was stalked by the Boogieman, a supernatural monster that fed on the fear of children and hid in their closets, and was particularly fond of Spengler's fear ; it was these encounters with the creature that inspired Spengler to study the paranormal, and as an adult, he would battle the Boogieman twice and defeat him.

Note the distinction between " Frankenstein " the creator and Frankenstein's monster: a Frankenstein complex is not a fear of roboticists, scientists, or even mad scientists, but rather, a fear of artificial human beings, although fear of one generally implies some fear of the other.

Andromeda is the daughter of an Aethiopian king in Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster aroused by the queen's hubris.

After he happened upon the chained Andromeda, he approached Cetus while invisible ( for he was wearing Hades's helm ), and killed the sea monster.

From the Renaissance onward the chained nude figure of Andromeda typically was the centre of interest, and often she was shown alone, fearfully awaiting the monster.

The first of these Jagdpanzers was the Ferdinand ( later renamed the Elefant ), a 70-ton monster built from the already-built quantity of ninety-one Porsche VK4501

There also is the origin myth that represents the ægis as a fire-breathing chthonic monster similar to the Chimera, which was slain and flayed by Athena, who afterward wore its skin as a cuirass ( Diodorus Siculus iii.

To remedy the lack of movement from the octopus prop, whenever someone was killed by the monster in the film, they simply flailed around in the shallow water while holding the tentacles to imitate movement.

Charybdis or Kharybdis (; Greek: Χάρυβδις ) was a sea monster, later rationalised as a whirlpool and considered a shipping hazard in the Strait of Messina.

Whether or not this incident is true, Adomnan's text specifically states that the monster was swimming in the River Ness-the river flowing from the loch-rather than in Loch Ness itself.

Certain experts believe that the monster was inspired by the golden jackal.

Of the various Classical Greek authors who mentioned centaurs, Pindar was the first who describes undoubtedly a combined monster.

This gives a large number of separate problems ; for example, the original proofs of existence and uniqueness of the monster totaled about 200 pages, and the identification of the Ree groups by Thompson and Bombieri was one of the hardest parts of the classification.

According to the New American Bible, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6 of a pregnant woman in the sky, threatened by a dragon, " corresponds to a widespread myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster ; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster ".

Eliade writes, " Legend, as was natural, bestowed upon him the attributes of St. George, famed for his victorious fight with the monster.

In other words, by the simple fact that he was regarded as a hero, de Gozon was identified with a category, an archetype, which equipped him with a mythical biography from which it was impossible to omit combat with a reptilian monster.

In Greek mythology, the monster Perseus defeated was called Ceto, which is depicted by the constellation of Cetus.

Years later, Dada artists described the movement as " a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the postwar economic and moral crisis, a savior, a monster, which would lay waste to everything in its path ... was a systematic work of destruction and demoralization ...

His first job for Corman was to dub and re-edit a Russian science fiction film Nebo zovyot, which he turned into a sex-and-violence monster movie entitled Battle Beyond the Sun, released in 1962.

New Grove encyclopaedia states that Fredigundis was a critical and popular failure, which may be partly attributable to the fact that Fredigundis ( Fredegund ), the widow of Chilperic I ), is presented as a murderous and sadistic feminine monster.

It was the third installment in the Japanese series of films featuring the monster Godzilla.

Unfortunately, this is the same iceberg that the mutant dinosaur Godzilla was trapped in by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces back in 1955, and the submarine is destroyed by the monster.

The next project was to pit Godzilla against another famous movie monster icon: a giant version of the Frankenstein monster.