[Seil]

When he saw his son as the boogeyman its because he was blaming his son for his own actions.

It was never his son. It killed the ghost of his son, but then the ghost comes back and forgives him.

Also, I can't help but feel as if you guys are reaching for some of that. Like, really.

EDIT

Also about Boogeyman: Big Hammer = Judge's Gavel
And Raincoat = To Shield himself from the Guilt about his Son's death

In regards to the coat, it's because it's raining. It fits that whole motif. In regards to the gasmask, it's because they needed a way to hide teh face and gas masks and trenchcoats are cool. The hammer symbolizing a gavel is kind of out there, man. I mean, it's a cinderblock attached to a pole. If we're saying it symbolizes a judge's gavel, we could also say it symbolizes the prisoners fighting with whatever they could find.

The clockwork/industrial stuff is supposed to represent his upcoming fear of execution.

But he's not getting executed. He's being transferred to a different prison. He only gets executed in one bad ending.

It could symbolize teh passing of time while in prison.

The void is Murphy feeling like he is losing himself after he lost everything else (literally he isn't a father or a husband. Then he made a bad deal that caused his friend to be hurt/killed his friend.)

...This kinda works. I was going to say that he seems like an okay father and husband. I don't know many people whose fault it is that their children were kidnapped and killed. They think it's their fault, though, sure. I'm not sure what caused his wife and him to drift apart, but the whole child death thing didn't help.

The boogeyman is like the void. its how Murphy feels about himself. When he saw his son as the boogeyman its because he was blaming his son for his own actions. When the boogeyman killed his son it was him reliving the memory of Naper. When the boogeyman shifted between Naper and Murphy it was basicly a visual "not so different" speech. He became a monster for his revenge. Once he realized this he became the Boogeyman and after you spare the officer Murphy realized that it wasn't his fault and he isn't a monster.

The Boogeyman, I think, is supposed to be evil. It's supposed to monster-ize someone, make them big and tough and powerful - someone who is evil incarnate in the eyes of another specific person.

1) The boogeyman kills Charlie's "ghost" - probably Napier, and cementing the guilt that Murphy feels over Charlie's death and the fact that he was powerless to stop it.

2) Murphy/Napier - Napier for obvious reasons, but Murphy saw himself as a monster for attacking Napier, and attacking not helping Coleridge.

3) Murphy - When Cunningham sees Murphy as the boogeyman, it's because he is evil in her eyes. At this point, she believes that he's the one who beat her father, and turned him into a vegetable. She believes it's his fault, and as such, he's evil in her eyes.