To escape her painful past, Greta, an American nanny, accepts a job in England. In the stately home of the Heelshire’s, she is assigned to care for their 8-year-old son, Brahms. But Brahms is not an ordinary child – he is a porcelain doll whom the old couple have treated as their son since the real boy died in a fire. First amused when she is alone with Brahms, Greta gradually witnesses strange phenomena and begins to question the true nature of Brahms...

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The Boy is B horror within the usual structure: an attractive heroine is placed into a creepy setting with recurring nightmares, strange noises, a handful of basic jump scares, and a devilish doll as commonplace as an old ghost. Making do with what he is assigned and aware of the limits of the exercise, director William Brent Bell offers up a nice little surprise that opts for a clever approach. An amusing homage to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween and The People Under the Stairs, The Boy has fun tossing around red herrings to maintain its mystery. And despite an uneventful performance by Lauren Colman (The Walking Dead) The Boy will entertain fans of the genre.