Review of The Boy

The Boy (2016)
7/10
nice little horror
4 February 2018
Greta Evans (Lauren Cohan) takes a job as a nanny in a remote english country mansion. She is surprised when the elderly Heelshires reveal the boy to be a life size porcelain doll. She needs the money while avoiding her possessive boyfriend. She decides to take the job. She is left alone with the doll when the couple leaves for their vacation. Caretaker Malcolm (Rupert Evans) occasionally visits and he tells her that the couple had lost their son Brahms some 20 years earlier.

It's a nice little ghost story for the first hour. It's a bit of a throwback until the movie turns into an action thriller. This is a small horror but it's effective. Cohan does a nice turn into believing the supernatural. It's all very nice and easy old fashion indie horror.
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