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The Tate-La Bianca murders of 1969 struck fear into mainstream America, and this frightening hippie who had supposedly compelled his acolytes to commit murder became the bogeyman of the counterculture era.

Once you start to see bogeymen in one place, it's easy to see them everywhere.

“Carter never got over the feeling of betrayal and abandonment by the Jewish community” that he felt he had helped with the Camp David accords but for whom he had “become a bogeyman,” Miller said.

Such simplicity in design, along with a winking sense of artifice, is partly what helped turn Kent’s bogeyman into an unlikely gay icon.

Nicolas Cage plays the film’s titular bogeyman — but you wouldn’t necessarily know that from the marketing materials, which deliberately obscure the actor’s face.