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The Boy
Directed by
William Brent Bell
PG-13
2016
1h 38m
Horror
,
Mystery
,
and more
6.0
31%
38%
6.0
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An American nanny is shocked that her new English family's boy is actually a life-sized doll. After she violates a list of strict rules, disturbing events make her believe that the doll is really alive.
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Cast of The Boy
Lauren Cohan
Greta Evans
Rupert Evans
Malcolm
James Russell
Brahms Heelshire
Jim Norton
Mr. Heelshire
Diana Hardcastle
Mrs. Heelshire
Ben Robson
Cole
Jett Klyne
Young Brahms Heelshire
Lily Pater
Emily Cribbs
Stephanie Lemelin
Sandy (voice)
Matthew Walker
Taxi Driver
William Brent Bell
Director
Stacey Menear
Writer
Jim Wedaa
Producer
Wang Zhonglei
Executive Producer
Matt Berenson
Producer
Richard S. Wright
Producer
Robert Simonds
Executive Producer
Oren Aviv
Executive Producer
John Powers Middleton
Executive Producer
Tom Rosenberg
Producer
The Boy Ratings & Reviews
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
While I can't say what transpires ends up making The Boy a bad film, it does have the unfortunate effect of making it a less interesting one.
Uproxx
Scott Tobias
With a little more courage and a lot more craft, Brahms could have been the next Chucky or Annabelle. Instead the little creep is as harmless as a rag doll.
Chesapeake Family Magazine
Roxana Hadadi
The doldrums of January horror continue with The Boy, another subpar genre offering.
John Hanlon Reviews
John Hanlon
The bizarre but intriguing premise here is undermined because the film isn't willing to take risks to embrace the absurdity of the situation.
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
[Cohan] shines in an otherwise utterly silly horror film.
ShockTillYouDrop.com
Chris Alexander
One of the best contemporary wide release horror movies I've seen in years.
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
People who like mild funhouse scares and creepy puppets will find it well worth the rental fee at Redbox (assuming that fee is still somewhere in the $1 range).
FilmsInReview.com
Victoria Alexander
Women who own "reborn" dolls will love this terrific, twisty horror movie.
Sacramento News & Review
Jim Lane
The movie violates its own internal logic and dissolves into worn-out slasher-flick tropes. Too bad; Menear and Bell had a bizarrely good thing going, but they couldn't come up with an ending.
SSG Syndicate
Susan Granger
Strange and intense, delving into the paranormal and leaving the door ajar for a sequel.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
Creepy (if hardly credible), and admirably compact.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...just another run-of-the-mill, neutered horror effort.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Just another spooky doll movie that fails to fall far enough into the darkness.
Entertainment Weekly
Christian Holub
[It] aims to set itself squarely in the fictional canon of Chucky and its brethren, but it ends up trying to do so much that it forgets to scare us.
TheWrap
Inkoo Kang
"The Boy" didn't screen for critics, but it's actually a pretty sturdy genre effort. Nearly free of gore... [the film] is careful and clever about revealing what Brahms really is, for he's certainly got a mind and will of his own.
RogerEbert.com
Christy Lemire
It's awkward and strange but never shamelessly over-the-top enough to serve as a guilty pleasure.
New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
It ... has enough scary moments to satisfy horror fans, but you're left wondering whether it might have been more disturbing had it stayed on its original path.
Los Angeles Times
Martin Tsai
If only writer Stacey Menear and director William Brent Bell took the very real horrors of domestic abuse as seriously as they do the virtual horror of paranormal activity.
Variety
Joe Leydon
Despite game efforts by the cast, this tepid horror opus is never scary enough to overcome its silly premise.
AV Club
Katie Rife
The story takes a couple of major turns, both so blatantly lifted from other horror films that to name their titles would give away the end of the movie.
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Richard Wright On The Exciting Script
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Interview With Rainn Wilson & Elijah Wood
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Rupert Evans On The Surprise Of The Story
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Jim Norton On His Interpretation Of The Story
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