The Boy English Movie

Wait, wait you will soon get that chill, you will soon spot the spirit, you will soon come face to face with the ghost. Yes, the doll will soon get alive, the boy will definitely scare you to glory. Alas! The wait reveals disappointment and never percolates into that horrifying creepy movie; you hoped you have come to watch. Jan 30, 2016 By Anurima Das

A routine, rat trap, long vacant corridors, Wooden winding staircases and an old couple in a Victorian house-rather a bungalow. Greta (Lauren Cohan) gets welcomed into this setting when she signs in for a job as a nanny to run away from an abusive past. But little did she know that her idea of escape would mean babysitting a doll. Yes, the boy she was recruited to manage is long dead and the couple lives with that porcelain substitute, who Greta was recruited to babysit.

"He has chosen you", the mother informs Greta. Is this good news? Many nannies have been asked to leave in the past as the boy aka doll has rejected them. William Brent Bell has chosen all the right ingredients to build that perfect setting for a spine chilling horror film, but he missed adding the right dose of pepper to his recipe. What was finally cooked was too bland and dry.

The motionless eyes of the doll, the lurking stillness of the house fused with the background musical notes will heighten your anticipation and will constantly give you a hollow feeling that unfortunately only gets justified through a few nightmares Greta gets in the house but nothing horror worthy translates into the real screen time of The Boy.

The old couple, Mr and Mrs. Heelshire sets sail on a holiday in a haste and leaves Brahms, their son-the porcelain doll under the care of Greta. She is told to be good to him. All hell breaks loose when Brahms is left alone or when you are not good to him. But how long can one pretend that the doll is actually an 8 year old boy and maintain sanity by always being good to him, making him do the usual young boy routine. That's when Greta is visited by Malcom (Rupert Evans), the grocery man. He can only talk about the strange stories that do the round of the town and the creepy tales that has always surrounded the house of the Heelshire's.

You expect more horror follows just when you break for the intermission. And when you come back you know for sure that it will happen now, now is the time. Yes! Yes! Duh! Nothing happens. What happens is surely not a horror expedition but a silly revelation that somehow makes you feel that William Brent Bell has lost track of the screenplay and somehow had to end the film. So this was it.

Don't expect too much. The Boy is just good for a solo watch. But will never make for a memorable experience.