10 Dumb Movies With Genius Plot Twists

10. Brahms Was Living In The Walls - The Boy

2016's hit horror film The Boy revolves around an American nanny, Greta Evans (Lauren Cohan), who travels to England only to discover that her new job doesn't involve babysitting a boy, Brahms, but rather a life-size doll resembling him.

It's soon revealed that the real Brahms died in a fire 20 years prior, and this is the parents' way of coping. For the bulk of the movie, audiences are led to believe that the Brahms doll is going to come to life, Child's Play-style, and start terrorising Greta.

However, in the third act this is revealed to be nothing more than a red herring, because not only did Brahms survive the fire 20 years ago, but he's been living in the walls of the mansion seemingly ever since.

As spectacularly stupid as The Boy might be, and as daft as the subsequent showdown with Greta is, this was a terrific sleight-of-hand, luring in audiences to believe it was basically a lame cash-in on the Annabelle formula, only to become something else entirely.

Sadly the sequel, Brahms: The Boy II, bafflingly retconned this reveal entirely, re-jigging Brahms as a demonic entity literally living inside the titular doll.