Let’s be honest about The Boy.

If you wanted to see this film after watching the trailer featuring a nanny charged with caring for a lifelike-looking possessed doll, you would be expecting to be creeped out.

There is a long tradition of horror movies bringing evil dolls or toys to life and do horrific things. And the filmmakers here certainly sought out to exploit the concept of an inanimate object coming to life. The main characters of the movie are Brahms, Greta and Malcolm.

The plot revolves around Greta, A young woman who takes the job as a nanny to take care of a 8 year old realistic doll named Brahms that the parents take care of as if it was their son. Even though their son died 20 years ago in a fire. The film takes place in the UK present time in an old house

Unfortunately, along the way The Boy takes too many twists and turns along the plot to deliver on its promise of providing a guilty pleasure of creepiness. Midway through the movie, the story shifts away from the boy altogether, making the build up to the inevitable conflict between good and evil fizzle out instead of going out with a bang.

For a movie that is supposedly about a creepy doll it really just focuses on Greta and the problem with her violent ex and the sparking new romance with Malcolm with the grocery man. Seeing the first 30 minutes of the film was all needed to get bored for it to be a good horror movie if you even want to call it horror, don’t get me wrong the last 30 min of the movie were good but not good enough to waste 10 dollars and popcorn/soda.

I rated the movie a 6 out of 10 because the movie is called “The Boy” not The Girl. It’s a horror movie with not enough horror, it’s creepy in some parts but not through out the rest of the movie, most of it is just Greta do something. I would‘ve liked to see a horror film that was actually scary but instead I got a somewhat creepy and awkward movie.