The Boy
Always looking for a good horror movie. Always breaking my own "PG-13 is going to suck" rule.
This was PG-13. While it didn't exactly suck, it meandered to the end, packing the only real action into the final ten minutes, long after you've lost interest.
Maggie from Walking Dead (can't decide if she's super hot or not) carries this film as an American escaping an abusive relationship by taking a job as a nanny at an English manor. No explanation of how she learned of the odd job, the film opens with her already on the way.
She meets a friendly neighborhood grocer who immediately begins to make moves on her. She meets the elderly family that owns the manner. And she meets their precocious, mischevious eight-year old son. Who just happens to be a doll.
Is the house haunted? Is the doll alive? Are the old couple insane? All is revealed -- slowly -- and some of it just doesn't make sense.
Maggie's (I think her name in the movie was Greta) turn from disbelief to absolute conviction was a little abrupt, as was her "I want you -- no I don't -- yes I do -- no I don't" pecking with the friendly grocery boy.
A really dumb sidebar about the abusive ex-boyfriend led to the final denouement, but I could have done without his leaden and off-key performance. He was completely out of place in the film. Could have gotten to the same place without him.
Not going to spoil it for the one or two of you who may decide to go see this or download it or whatever. The eventual reveal wasn't something I expected, but it actually created more questions than it answered. It made the movie dumber due to the events leading up to it.
Maggie doesn't get close to naked, if that's of any concern. I have heard that Walking Dead's Beth does in some other movies, but I haven't seen it.
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