
Greta, a young American woman, takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village and discovers that the family's 8-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy as a way to cope with the death of their actual son 20 years ago. When she violates a list of strict rules, her worst nightmare is brought to life by a series of disturbing, inexplicable events and she comes to believe that the doll is alive.... (Full plot summary below)
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Greta, a young American woman, takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village and discovers that the family's 8-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy as a way to cope with the death of their actual son 20 years ago. When she violates a list of strict rules, her worst nightmare is brought to life by a series of disturbing, inexplicable events and she comes to believe that the doll is alive.
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| ShockTillYouDrop.comChris AlexanderOne of the best contemporary wide release horror movies I've seen in years. |
| The Monitor (McAllen, TX)Brooke Corso"The Boy" is less about a life-size porcelain doll and more about the objectification of a vulnerable young woman by literally everyone around her. And the film is creepier and darker than you would expect in that regard. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekFor the first hour or so,... a fairly effective slow-burning chiller, old-fashioned and silly but nicely crafted...In the final third, however, it collapses into preposterous cliché, and even technically grows ragged and scraggly down the home stretch. |
| AV ClubKatie RifeAt least, maybe The Boy can lead some novices to better, more original horror movies. |
| L.A. WeeklyMichael NordineThere's only so much she can do once the movie around her devolves into the usual barrage of jump scares, but Cohan maintains her composure even as Greta loses hers. |
| MovieCrypt.comKevin A. RansonFans of Cohan and spooky flicks will find plenty to enjoy here - enough to give a positive recommendation for - but it will always feel like a missed opportunity not getting to see what we really hoped for. |
| The Blogging BansheeMolly HeneryThe Boy was much more successful than I imagined it could be. There were so many elements that worked in its favor such as the acting and an interesting plot line. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderPeople 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). |
| Entertainment WeeklyChristian HolubThe Boy, from director William Brent Bell, 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. |
| TheWrapInkoo KangNearly free of gore, the film taps into the deep and always welcome vein of the opulently bizarre things that rich, emotionally stunted people get into when they’ve got too much money. Stacey Menear’s script is careful and clever about revealing what Brahms really is, for he’s certainly got a mind and will of his own. |