The Boy

Nearly free of gore, the film taps into the deep and always welcome vein of the opulently bizarre things that rich, emotionally stunted people get into when they’ve got too much money. Stacey Menear’s script is careful and clever about revealing what Brahms really is, for he’s certainly got a mind and will of his own.

It still has enough scary moments to satisfy horror fans, but you’re left wondering whether it might have been more disturbing had it stayed on its original path.

Stacey Menear's screenplay doesn't manage to sustain its clever premise, with the final act featuring a banal and formulaic revelation that unfortunately takes what had been a spooky haunted house tale into familiar slasher movie territory.

The Boy’s overriding concern is telegraphed enough in advance that fans of Gothic suspense will almost certainly have guessed it 45 minutes in.

Despite the assiduous grinding of plot mechanics by William Brent Bell (“The Devil Inside”) and scripter Stacey Menear, the movie never fully distracts its audience from the inherent silliness of its premise...and, as a result, is more likely to elicit laughs and rude remarks rather than screams and rooting interest.

If only writer Stacey Menear and director William Brent Bell took the very real horrors of domestic abuse as seriously as they do the virtual horror of paranormal activity.

Is it a spoiler to refer to the coda of thriller The Boy as the clumsiest cop out in recent horror history?

Exceptional and well-acted, The Boy is intense, terrifying and surprisingly sad. It might not be the scary movie you'd want it to be but it is all worth the wait for the twist.

an interesting but complicated film, you need to see the reviews of what really happened

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

There were some genuine scares here but it falters in a lot of areas. Lot to be desired. I had some type of enjoyment in the first half but it fell apart in the second. And that ending. UGH!

I really loved Lauren Cohan in this, she was engaging and pretty damn beautiful. The movie is just a joke. It's lazy and dull, and it has the dumbest plot twist maybe ever.