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10. The Twist That Ruined Two Movies - Brahms: The Boy II

Not just does Brahms: The Boy II's twist turn a so-so movie into a stinker, it actually undermines and retroactively ruins its predecessor.

Arriving in 2016, the first Boy movie was somewhat surprisingly decent. Sure, it was no all-time classic, but it was a solid, entertaining, genuinely unnerving picture that was a lot more than the spooky doll feature many presumed it was. With Lauren Cohan's Greta tasked with serving as a nanny to a porcelain doll - that'd be Brahms - The Boy's spooky goings-on across a lavish mansion end up being revealed to be the real-life Brahms who, said to have died years prior, actually lives in the property's walls.

That in itself was a fun twist, but Brahms: The Boy II took a giant dump on all of that.

For The Boy II, it's Katie Holmes' Liza and her son Jude who find themselves tormented by the shenanigans of Brahms. While the action just about limps along, the conclusion of this sequel reveals that the Brahms doll is actually a demonic identity in search of a human host - totally going against what had been established in the first movie.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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Posted On: 19th Dec 2023

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