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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Greta is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover 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 prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta's worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually alive. Written by STX Entertainment

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Rated PG-13 for violence and terror, and for some thematic material | See all certifications »

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22 January 2016 (USA)  »

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$10,000,000 (estimated)

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$10,778,392 (USA) (22 January 2016)

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$35,794,166 (USA) (25 March 2016)
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On March 10, 2015, filming on The Boy officially begun in Victoria , British Columbia , at Craigdarroch Castle, announced by the studios. See more »

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The telephone in the house makes the USA dead tone (blips) rather than the UK dead tone (a continuous tone). See more »

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Greta Evans: You wouldn't hurt me, would you, Brahms?
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Referenced in Midnight Screenings: The Boy (2016) See more »

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Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85: IV. Allegro - Moderato - Allegro ma non troppo
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by Erling Blondal Bengtsson, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Pierre Jacquillat
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" Never Leave Him Alone "
7 February 2016 | by (Colombia) – See all my reviews

"The Boy" lies before a striking premise.

"The Boy" is composed of a doll for nothing frightening, a house scary old and an unbalanced performance by Lauren Cohan (Maggie, "The Walking Dead"). Director William Brent Bell offers few moments of horror to satisfy fans of the genre, but the majority of the tension of the film is based on jump-scares and frights common in the world of horror, making us question Could not have been better with a development more coherent?

Lauren Cohan is "Greta" a young American teenager who escapes from a tortuous relationship and takes a baby-sitting job in a village far away from society and looking gloomy, as soon as she accepts the job, should already know that Brahms should receive a kiss goodnight and must take care not to break or a single rule.

After the explanations and others. Greta attempts to understand parents, and with the exception of Malcolm (Rupert Evans), she starts a single transition with the strange doll, where at the end unusually understands and follows the game in a natural and comprehensive way.

This installment, is apparently a prospect of lean mixture between the so scary "Annabelle" (in matters of the doll) and the 2006 film "When a Stranger Calls" (in matters of work babysitting), we often see references of not only these two tapes, also from his previous project "The Devil Inside".

From there, the film takes a couple of unnecessary turns and for fans of the horror the end despite breaking schemes of the genre, it is stupid and irrational, wasting the few merits as until then had managed to raise.

But considering its classification PG -13 and what it could offer us, we all knew that this was not going to make the best horror film of the year but could reach the label " The Best and Original Horror Film of 2016 , to the date". Cohan performance is uneven, the first hour is tortuous and tense and fails her fully know what happens , unfortunately like all horror movies today , the real excitement starts in the last half hour where the film takes a turn I look that even innovative and irreproachable, also feels like a disappointment.


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