Imaginary Friends
In the film, Imaginary friends are beings assigned to children who require their aid and companionship for whatever reason. Imaginary friends are invisible to adults and children who don't believe in them, but visible to small children, their assigned children and the imaginative. Imaginary friends do not age and are virtually indestructible; Larry survived an attack by the Boogeyman that would have killed a human. If a child stops believing in an imaginary friend before they are meant to, the imaginary friend will transform into a boogeyman. Once transformed they are dark, monstrous parodies of the beings they once were with exceptionally powerful ones holding grudges against their former charges and seek them out and attempt to destroy them. The only known cure is if the child believes in the Imaginary friend again.
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