10 Horror Movie Mysteries That Should NEVER Have Been Answered
5. A Real Doll - Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
If horror movies have taught us anything, it's that dolls are scary and should not be f**ked with.
The Boy arrived hot on Annabelle's frilly heels in 2016, marking a curious addition to the living doll genre with a whole new set of rules. The Boy places us in the company of Brahms, a handsome porcelain doll whose family - the elderly and potentially senile Heelshires - believe he is real. Sure enough, the doll switches positions when nobody is looking and impossible things begin to happen in his presence around the house. However, in a clever last-minute switch, it's revealed Brahms is in fact a real person living in the walls, controlling events through various passages and crawlspaces. Colour us surprised.
Come 2020, however, and writer Stacey Menear decided to walk back the whole thing, with a Brahms-centric story that shows the doll to have been sentient -- and face-rottingly evil -- all along, rendering the mysteries posited by the conclusion of the first film null and void. Pivoting back towards the supernatural was obviously an attempt to dig a series out of a standalone film, but the cat was already out the bag (or, the boy was already out the wall) and it bombed like all hell.