Hybrid
Entertainment's upcoming original movie, Cucuy: The Boogeyman, scheduled to premiere on
SyFy on Saturday, October 13th (7p/6p CT) 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 mythical Mexican Boogeyman 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
overall aesthetic," Sullivan emphasizes.
The
October movie exclusive to SyFy begins when the local police department
finds itself off guard as 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 ("Charmed's"Brian Krause) has reached a dead end. "Riverdale' star
Marisol Nichols (right) is cast as beleaguered, widowed mother, 'Rebecca,' who is monitoring daughter 'Sofia,' portrayed by sensational
Jearnest Corchado, who with her younger sister, 'Amelia' (Bella
Stine) is stuck under house arrest. With plenty of free time on her
hands and nothing else 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).
'Sofia'
finds that her bedroom window provides the perfect place from which to
investigate the mysterious disappearances . Her touching relationship
with her younger, hearing-impaired
sister provides much of the film's heart, especially when the latter
finds herself targeted by the supernatural terror. 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?
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