In 2016, a modest horror film called The Boy (2016) gave a good dosage of frights to the audience managing to achieve a handful of nominations in the categories of best horror and indie film in several festivals and awards. Grossing four times its initial budget, the producers of the movie Lakeshore Entertainment and STX Entertainment announced last October that a sequel for the film was scheduled to enter in production. The last 14th of January the movie, with the provisional title The Boy 2, started filming in Victoria British Columbia and is expected to finish in April.
William Brent Bell, director of movies like Stay Alive (2006), The Devil Inside (2012) and Wer (2013), repeats behind the cameras as he did in the original The Boy (2016). And as happened with the previous film Stacey Menear is the author of the screenplay.
In The Boy (2016), a young American woman takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village. She soon discovered that the family’s 8-year-old is a life-sized doll named Brahms that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son 20 years prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring the young nanny’s worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually alive.
In the sequel, Katie Holmes plays Liza, the mother of a young family who unaware of the dark history, move into the Heelshire Mansion. The premise will follow the story of the youngest son finding the porcelain doll, and befriending Brahms. Ralph Ineson, Owain Yeoman and Christopher Convery are also starring.
If you can’t wait for the sequel to see the light maybe you can watch the trailer for The Boy (2016).
