10 Best & 10 Worst Horror Movies Of 2016

8. The Boy

Has the ‘creepy doll’ subgenre ever really produced anything of note? Chucky of Child’s Play fame is like an annoying ginger stepchild only with murder on his mind, Annabelle from The Conjuring prequel looks like she’s just emerged the other side of a three-day meth binge and Billy the Puppet from the Saw franchise is more like a papier mâché school art project designed by a teenage goth than anything truly scary. Some people never learn though, because yet another subpar spooky doll flick was released this year in the form of The Boy.

A young American woman (The Walking Dead’s Lauren Cohan) takes a job as a nanny at a remote, English stately home to look after a suspiciously elderly couple’s eight-year old son, Brahms. The ‘son’ naturally turns out to be a porcelain doll, the real Brahms having died in a fire years earlier.

Spooky stuff starts happening when the doll starts moving around by himself alongside a daft romantic subplot with a flirty grocery boy and plenty of schlocky twists. Unluckily for us, The Boy’s predictable ending leaves the movie wide open for an equally bad sequel too. Please no.