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Bogeyman

Oogie Boogie is the villain of the 1993 Disney film the Nightmare Before Christmas and who also appears in the

seasonal overlay of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.

History

In the Nightmare Before Christmas, Oogie Boogie is a burlap sack monster who lives in a subterranean lair located outside of Halloweentown. Boogie is implied to have his three henchman Lock, Shock and Barrel kidnap mortals from the living world in order to bring them to Boogie so that he can torture and eat them in his gambling themed torture chamber. In the movie itself the henchmen bring Boogie Santa Clause to torture and kill, Boogie however is stopped from doing this by Jack Skellington who then proceeds to murder Boogie by pulling out his stitches resulting in Boogie's insides (which are revealed to be thousands of bugs) to fall into a pit of boiling acid.

Along with Boogie being the villain of the Nightmare Before Christmas, he is based on the folkloric monster "The Bogeyman" who is known for spreading fear and kidnapping disobediant children.

Haunted Mansion

Boogie appears in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion Holiday, although Boogie didn't physically appear until 2003. Boogie appears in the exit crypt in the area which the Hitchhiking Ghosts typically are found, here he is dressed up as "Boogie Claws" where he appears alongside a kind of buzzsaw wheel of fortune labelled "Oogie's Holiday Tricks and Treats", after this Boogie's gifts appear in the guest's doom-buggy's reflections.

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