Although the movie might be a bit slow for some people, me included in fact, it is still well worth watching. Watching the kid growing up into a sociopath, fighting the solitude by doing macabre things like killing innocent animals and tricking people into visiting their motel, was interesting to watch. You can't fault any of the actors because they all did their job very well. Even the boy played by young Jared Breeze did a very good performance. You can feel the despair from the boy, just wanting attention and another life then his boring existence he has with his dad running an unsuccessful motel in the middle of nowhere. The filming is very good. The story is sometimes a bit slow but in the context of the movie, and the boring life they have, it's actually necessary to be slow. I would just not call it a horror movie, but a psychological drama. Enjoyable drama worth watching at least once.
Review of The Boy
