Based on true events, Jack Dorfman and Markus Potter’s short film, Stalking the Bogeyman, recounts a moment in time for a survivor of childhood sexual assault. Santino Fontana plays investigative journalist David Holthouse. On this particular day, David has that rare opportunity to confront his Bogeyman (Thomas Sadoski), the man who raped him when he was seven years old. What the Bogeyman doesn’t know is that Holthouse had been planning his assassination long before their meeting.
Stalking the Bogeyman focuses primarily on the conversation as Holthouse asks his “bogeyman” tough and awkward questions. “Did you ever tell anyone?” “Why haven’t you ever owned up to what you did?” “Was I the only one?”
“..Holthouse had been planning his assassination long before their meeting.”
Shot on film, Dorfman and Potter give the encounter a dream-like quality to this surreal moment of reality. They also blend in animation as a way to portray Holthouse’s mind frame while planning the Bogeyman’s demise.
Stalking the Bogeyman is specifically meant to bring awareness to the situation that adult survivors of childhood sexual assault go through every day. The memories are burdens carried throughout one’s lifetime. The glimmer of hope comes in the fact that you are not alone, and there are those, like Holthouse,” who serve as public advocates for survivors.
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