The Boy

Supernatural horror from director William Brent Bell. American nanny Greta (Lauren Cohan) takes a job caring for an eight-year-old boy in a rural village in England. It transpires that the boy Brahms is a life-size doll who is cared for as if living and used as a coping mechanism by grieving parents who lost their son.

Failing to see anything strange about this, the elderly parents, Mr and Mrs Heelshire (Jim Norton and Diana Hardcastle), leave Greta with an extensive list of rules about caring for the doll. When Greta fails to follow these rules, unexplainable incidents lead her to think that the doll may really be alive.