“The Boy” not scary enough

Alright, I’m going to try and make this review spoiler-free and informative. First off, my name’s Brandon and I’m new to the Advocate. This being my first movie review, I intended to pick what I thought would be a terrible movie, but it turns out I was wrong.

“The Boy” is not a fantastic movie, but is not a bad one, either. I wouldn’t say it was ‘meah’, though, because if I could describe it in one word, I would say “fun.” The movie had me stressed out, wigged out, and to me it didn’t seem to have too many dull moments. The plot was meah, but the way they told the story was fun. However, most people in the audience, including me, were laughing at things the movie’s makers probably didn’t want us laughing at. It wasn’t campy, but people talking to a doll, like it’s alive, can not only be creepy but sometimes comical.

There was a ton of mystery in the movie, but some questions didn’t get answered. Like, how did the house fire twenty years ago happen? That’s the only one I can currently think of without giving any spoilers. . .but the twist in the movie was freaking fantastic.

Generally when I watch horror movies, I’m usually cracking jokes in my head. I wasn’t doing that as often as I normally do during this film. There was one great part in the movie when I felt completely satisfied and off my seat, along with a few members in the audience.

How I can describe that I knew the audience felt that way too, was that the group of high school girls giggling and making noise throughout the movie went silent. Another guy excitedly shouted “Oh…my god!” as soon as that awesome thing came in. From then on, everybody was just shutting up and watching and I remembered at that point in the movie why I like horror.

“The Boy” of course would not inspire me to stay up late stressing out over stuff, but it did cause my adrenaline to rise. If I would give this movie a rating, I would say a 2.5/5. The plot was bleah, towards the beginning; the ending scene of the movie was stupid; but the movie was fun and interesting and it reminded me why I love horror movies… even though I would consider this more of a thriller.