Please help me with this line...

There are many interpretations of what she said and I believe she said, "It was the boogeyman," (because Tommy keeps telling her he's of there but she doesn't believe him but now she finally believes him and says it was in fact the boogeyman and Loomis agrees with her and says, "As a matter of fact, it was."

She says "It was the boogeyman."

All throughout the movie, Tommy is the only person who doesn't know what the boogeyman is. Laurie tells him what the boogeyman is.

The only point of contention from Laurie's perspective is if the boogeyman is truly out there threatening them. Earlier in the film, she had been troubled by this suspicion herself but, thanks to encouragement from her more self aware but less perceptive friends, she scolds herself for this. And she does precisely the same thing to Tommy when he reacts to what he has seen.

When Laurie gets The Shape down for the first time she tries to reassure Tommy that the intruder is dead. Tommy scoffs, "You can't kill the boogeyman." Notice, there is no longer any discussion about what the boogeyman is, even from Tommy.

We know what happens next. The Shape seems determined to prove Tommy right. Laurie is forced to concede what Tommy has been warning for most of the night. "It was the boogeyman." It so happens that her audience, a complete stranger who unhesitatingly blew the fiend out of his socks and out the window, has been trying in a circuitous, verbose and "fancy" way to impress on the local sheriff what that Laurie has just succinctly defined. He too is now forced to agree with her statement.

Only if you listen to the line on its own with zero consideration for the context, no isn't perfectly elocuted in order to provide narrative clarity. Amazingly, Curtis delivers the line like a person in a state of emotional and psychological distress. As if she's witnessed her friends murdered corpses and then "killed" her attacker twice before being saved by Loomis.

Thanks to the lead's unwooden acting the "It" in "It was the boogeyman is caught in the back of Laurie's trembling throat. The best this poor traumatised girl can muster at this point is a choked syllable preceding the clearly heard statement "..was the boogeyman." To which Pleasence provides the endorsement "As a matter of fact it was". Which would be a complete non sequitur if he had just heard an interrogative about the nature of the boogeyman. Which figures because, leaving out the context, nothing in the tone or inflection of Laurie's line sounds like a question.

No. She doesn't say "What's the boogeyman?"

Neither does she say "Was..(anything)..the boogeyman?"

Both of those are questions and she is not asking a question by any stretch of linguistic imagination. Unless Laurie has suddenly started speaking a different language that uses English words but not English syntax, grammar, phonics or logic. Plus she's inexplicably curious about what the boogeyman is even though she put that issue to bed some time ago.

As matter of fact, after previously rejecting the notion several times, she says "It was the boogeyman." I can prove it. I have it on tape.

And as my friend Jimmy Pineapple says - "Case f- ing closed"





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I've always heard the lines as "What's the boogeyman?" "as a matter of fact, it was."

Tommy asks Laurie a few times "what's the boogeyman?"

Loomis states that he refers to Michael as 'it', not 'him'. As a matter of fact, he was. It was. Makes sense to me.

I will always hear the line as "What's the boogeyman?", regardless of what anyone else says.

It doesn't make any sense that she'd ask "What's the boogieman?"

She either says "It was the boogieman" or "Was it the boogieman?" I think she says "Was it the boogieman?" It is a little hard to tell though.

It always sounded to me like "It was the Boogeyman!"
Loomis replies "As a matter of fact, it was."

Laurie had denied the fact that whatever Tommy saw or whatever Laurie herself felt 'chilled' by all night was anything at all......

And the night's events had just PROVED it to her that it was indeed the Boogeyman!





I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

She says "was the boogeyman". Clearly intended to be "it was the boogeyman". The word "it" seemingly being cut off.

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She most definitely says "It was the boogeyman". Absolutely certain.