So I recently watched The Boy and I'm here to bring you my review. So without further ado.........
A young American named Greta (played by Lauren Cohan) takes a job as a nanny for an 8-year-old boy in a remote English village. To her surprise, Greta learns that the child of her new employers is a life-size doll. They care for the doll as if it was human, which helps the couple to cope with the death of their own son 20 years earlier. When Greta violates a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring her worst fears to life, leading her to believe that the doll is alive.
This was actually a pretty creepy film. Now although it was creepy, that doesn't necessarily mean that the film was scary. Now granted there were some scary parts, but they weren't memorable and they were mostly jump scares. It relies heavily on the cliches and obvious scare tactics that horror films do in this day and time. Lauren really steps of The Walking Dead shadow and she gives a pretty decent performance with what little she was given. The story really isn't nothing new and it reminds you a little of the Child's Play franchise and it while the film, tries to stay original as possible, it ends up being a pretty pretty predictable and full of cliches. It also brings up a very serious message which was surprising for a horror film, but once it's introduced it just glosses over the subject and it really doesn't get mentioned much throughout the rest of the film. The film moves at a really slow and haunting pace that helps build towards some of the scary moments, but as mentioned before the scary parts are really predictable so the build up is basically for nothing. Overall this film had a chance to be something really great and talk about different themes inside of a scary genre, but it doesn't do nothing to build upon the momentum and it becomes too predictable. I give The Boy a 3 out of 10.
So ladies and gentlemen what did you think of The Boy, what would you rate it and what did you think of my review? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
A young American named Greta (played by Lauren Cohan) takes a job as a nanny for an 8-year-old boy in a remote English village. To her surprise, Greta learns that the child of her new employers is a life-size doll. They care for the doll as if it was human, which helps the couple to cope with the death of their own son 20 years earlier. When Greta violates a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring her worst fears to life, leading her to believe that the doll is alive.
This was actually a pretty creepy film. Now although it was creepy, that doesn't necessarily mean that the film was scary. Now granted there were some scary parts, but they weren't memorable and they were mostly jump scares. It relies heavily on the cliches and obvious scare tactics that horror films do in this day and time. Lauren really steps of The Walking Dead shadow and she gives a pretty decent performance with what little she was given. The story really isn't nothing new and it reminds you a little of the Child's Play franchise and it while the film, tries to stay original as possible, it ends up being a pretty pretty predictable and full of cliches. It also brings up a very serious message which was surprising for a horror film, but once it's introduced it just glosses over the subject and it really doesn't get mentioned much throughout the rest of the film. The film moves at a really slow and haunting pace that helps build towards some of the scary moments, but as mentioned before the scary parts are really predictable so the build up is basically for nothing. Overall this film had a chance to be something really great and talk about different themes inside of a scary genre, but it doesn't do nothing to build upon the momentum and it becomes too predictable. I give The Boy a 3 out of 10.
So ladies and gentlemen what did you think of The Boy, what would you rate it and what did you think of my review? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
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