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Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
Yikes
I remember watching The Boy (2016) and thinking, 'hey, alright-that's not a half bad concept' when it was revealed that there was no supernatural element whatsoever, just a grown man with next-level babytalk scurrying through the walls. Watching them ignore a perfectly good, unique concept in favor of making Brahms: The Boy II into Scary Doll Movie #5987 was such a bizarre letdown that I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Scary dolls have been done. We've all seen that movie before in countless different packages. Why would you undo such a great set-up established by the first movie just to tell us a story we've heard already?
As far as the acting and the technical aspects, it was all fairly unremarkable. Christopher Convery's a really creepy kid, Katie Holmes is a stressed out mom of the creepy kid, Owain Yeoman is The Supportive but Unhelpful Dad(tm). Typical horror stuff. There's nothing that stands out about anybody's performance, but that's really only due to the fact that they're all stuck in the most generic roles possible. There's some obligatory spooky musical cues and intense doll shots that were to be expected. The usual, the usual, the usual. It's just too bad that anything that was unique or engaging about the first film is missing from this one. I wouldn't necessarily call Brahms: The Boy II a horrible movie, it's just one that everybody's seen before.