10 Horror Movie Retcons Everyone HATED
6. The Doll IS Possessed - Brahms: The Boy II
2016's The Boy was by no means a particularly good horror film, but it did deliver a genuinely potent and unexpected twist ending.
The film saw American nanny Greta Evans (Lauren Cohan) hired to care for Brahms, a porcelain doll which serves as a stand-in for the real Brahms, a boy who apparently died in a fire 20 years prior.
We're led to believe that the doll is possessed by Brahms, but we eventually learn that Brahms survived the fire and has been living inside the mansion's walls ever since.
The movie ends with the doll shattered but Brahms surviving his ordeal, and so when a sequel was announced, it seemed only natural that we'd see the very much human Brahms back again.
Yet Brahms: The Boy II commits one of the strangest and most unnecessary retcons in horror movie history, by ditching the flesh-and-blood Brahms and introducing the possessed doll angle which was so brilliantly subverted in the first film.
It's a pointless change which pissed off fans of the original and likely contributed to the sequel grossly under-performing at the box office. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.