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Villain Overview

It's a symbol associated with the worship of a pagan deity. A very obscure one dating back to Babylonian times named Bughuul, the Eater of Children. The crimes that you're dealing with, they all have the element of a missing child, correct? Well, Bughuul eats children. Now, the fragments of stories that have survived, they all revolve around him needing the souls of human children to survive. Now each story involves a different way that he lures or tricks these children away from the physical world and traps them in his own netherworld and he consumes their souls over time. Now any worship of this deity would include a blood sacrifice or the wholesale eating of a child.
~ Professor Jonas describing Bagul.
Ellison Oswalt: You know what time it is?
Deputy So&So: I know. I'm sorry. But I've been trying to call you all day.
Ellison Oswalt: What's the problem?
Deputy So&So: OK. The problem is that you moved.
Ellison Oswalt: How is that a problem?
Deputy So&So: I was compiling all of the data that you had me collecting and once I started putting it together into a nice readable package, I saw the connection, it was obvious.
Ellison Oswalt: What was it?
Deputy So&So: The dates, the addresses. Each family that you had me look up had previously lived in the house where one of the earlier murders took place.
Ellison Oswalt: Each family? All five of them?
Deputy So&So: Yes, and when you put them in chronological order, you can actually draw a line from murder to murder to murder. OK, we knew that the Stevensons previously lived in the same St Louis house where the Millers had their throats cut. But before the Miller family was killed, the Millers lived in the same house in Orange County where the De Luzio lawn massacre occurred. Guess where the De Luzios lived before they moved to Orange County?
Ellison Oswalt: Sacramento where the Martinez family was burned in their garage.
Deputy So&So: Exactly. The pattern goes back to the 1966 Oregon drownings. Listen. Mr Oswalt, you just moved out of the last house in fine, if this guy is still out there. You not only just sped up his timeline, you put yourself in it.
Ellison Oswalt: Thanks Deputy.
~ Deputy So&So explaining Bagul's final stage.

Bagul, also known as Buhguul and Mr. Boogie, is the main antagonist of the Sinister film series. He is an ancient Babylonian pagan deity who consumes the souls of human children. He possesses a realm of his own and can travel into the mortal world via images of himself.

He was portrayed by Nicholas King.

Biography

Bagul was the Babylonian brother of Moloch, a Canaanite deity who relished in child sacrifice. He dwelt in the netherworld, which could be accessed through images according to early Christians. One day, Bagul copied Moloch's child sacrifice customs and took children in the night to consume their souls. Infuriated by the religious plagiarism, Moloch sewed Bagul's mouth shut.

Ever since Bagul became a fearsome entity that would influence children to sacrifice their families in many grotesque ways before transporting them to the netherworld. There, he would slowly consume their corrupted souls. However, he would punish any child who fails to kill their family by quickly disintegrating them, as seen in Sinister 2. Then, he would target the next family who moves in the residence of the sacrificed family. However, he only triggers his next move if this family moves to another residence, due to the hauntings of Bagul and his damned accomplices.

Although no character explicitly worships Bagul as a deity, Professor Jonas testifies of historical practices such as blood sacrifices and the "wholesale eating" of the child, all in the name of Bagul. This contradicts Bagul's modus operandi in giving the child the full agency to do these acts.

On the same page, which shows the symbol of Bagul, there are references to Baal and Tlaloc, two pagan deities. Baal was venerated by the Semitic-Levantine people and is viewed as a demon in Judaism and Christianity. Tlaloc was considered to be a benevolent fertility god in Aztec mythology but required the sacrifice of children and their hearts in return for rain and crops.

Appearance

Bagul is a tall, nightmarish, humanoid creature in the form of a man with pale skin and long black hair. His most distinctive features are his lack of eyes and mouth. It is explained that his mouth was forcibly sewn by his brother Moloch, in retaliation for Bagul mimicking his sacrificial rituals.

Personality

Due to the lack of mouth, Bagul's voice is never heard, thus preventing greater insight into his personality. Nonetheless, his legacy of corrupting and consuming the souls of multiple children shows his gluttonous and sadistic personality.

Bagul additionally has an intense sibling rivalry with Moloch. Exemplifying this is the subversion of roles in their human sacrifice rituals. For Moloch, the parent sacrifices the child. For Bagul, the child sacrifices their parents (and any other sibling they have).

Known Crimes

Bagul tapes

Bagul's tapes.

Pre-Sinister

  • Professor Jonas's testimony: Bagul worshipers kill children via blood sacrifices and cannibalism (not directly sanctioned by Bagul himself).

Sinister

  • Pool Party '66: Bagul had a young 10-year-old boy tie his family onto pool chairs and pull each of them into the pool until they drowned to death in 1966.
  • BB Q '79: Had a 9-year-old boy chain his family inside a car and set the car on fire, burning them to death.
  • Lawn Work '86: Had a 10-year-old daughter run a lawn mover over her family as they were tied to the ground, killing them.
  • Sleepy Time '98: Had the 13-year-old Christopher Miller strap his family to their beds and then kill them by slitting their throats with a kitchen knife.
  • Family Hanging Out '11: Has the 10-year-old daughter Stephanie Stevenson tie her family to a tree branch by nooses, and then cut the branch supporting them, which causes it to pull them upward, killing them.
  • House Painting '12: After true crime novelist, Ellison Oswalt, had moved into Stephanie's house with his family to investigate the murders, he moved back into his old house after the Bagul had been haunting him. However, his 7-year-old daughter, Ashley, is manipulated by Bagul into drugging Ellison, and the rest of her family (her mother and her brother Trevor) so she can axe them to death and then paint the walls with their blood before also being abducted into his netherworld.

Sinister 2

  • Fishing Trip: Shows a 9-year-old boy named Ted who had tied his own family upside down over a lake. Then, an alligator approaches and bites each family members' head off, killing them.
  • Christmas Morning: Shows a family in their pajamas and tied up in Christmas lights. A 14-year-old girl named Emma shovels snow on top of each family member until they freeze to death.
  • Kitchen Remodel: Shows a family with their arms tied to the ceiling. A 12-year-old boy named Peter floods the room with water. Then he takes an electric cable and throws it on the floor to electrocute his family to death.
  • Sunday Service: Shows a Catholic family being nailed to the floor of a church. The family is in the shape of a pentagram. A 14-year-old boy named Milo Jacobs puts rats on each family member's stomach. Then, he places the rats inside metal tins before placing hot coals on top of them. The rats eat through the family's stomachs to escape the heat. The rats then escape and run away, leaving the family to bleed to death.
  • A Trip to the Dentist: Shows a family tied to chairs in a dentist's office. The family has retractors on their cheeks to keep their mouths wide open. A 7-year-old girl named Catherine takes a huge drill and drills her family members' teeth and the roof of their mouths, until the drill goes through their heads, killing them.

Trivia

  • In the alternate ending of Sinister 2, after Doctor Stromberg, the missing Professor Jonas' replacement, smashes a ham radio in his backyard he brought home from his office, knowing it would signal the coming wrath of Bagul upon him or anyone else next. After that, he drinks his coffee and later suddenly finds glowing green liquid inside his coffee cup (the same thing happened to the late Ellison Oswalt), and loses consciousness. A small blonde girl in a pink dress revealed to be Dr. Stromberg's daughter, came into his room with a blunt hammer as a murder weapon in her hand. She turns on a ham radio that suddenly appears in the room, and repeats the coordinates "4-0-7, 9-6-2, 7-7-8-6-2" twice, before killing her father as a sacrifice to Bagul.
  • Bagul was inspired by C. Robert Cargill, Sinister's screenwriters, from his nightmares of Samara Morgan from The Ring.

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