10 Horror Movies That Pissed Off Audiences Straight Away

Brahms: The Boy II truly is one of the strangest horror sequels in recent memory. The original movie wasn't great, but it at least had a few effective scares and delivered a genuinely amusing final plot twist.

Though The Boy led audiences to believe that the pallid porcelain doll, Brahms, was possessed and behind the movie's increasingly sinister series of events, the ending revealed that it was actually the real Brahms responsible, who contrary to reports of his death was now living in the walls of the Heelshire Mansion as an adult.

While the film ended with Brahms wounded, it was heavily implied that he survived, only for The Boy II to effectively retcon the entire story by conveniently forgetting this.

The Boy II pointlessly pivoted back to focus again on the whole possessed doll angle which the first film cleverly subverted, while the real Brahms was nowhere to be seen.

Though the film's opening doesn't tip its hat towards the full extent of disappointment on offer - namely, the reveal that the Brahms doll harbours a ridiculous-looking fleshy CGI demon beneath its visage - it does introduce us to the bland new protagonists who will be inhabiting a guest-house next to the Heelshire Mansion.

A home invasion leaves Liza (Katie Holmes) and her son Jude (Christopher Convery) traumatised, and so Liza's husband suggests they all retreat to the countryside to recover.

Such is the utterly pedestrian means through which we end up back at the mansion's grounds.

Any promise the original movie had is more or less suffocated beneath both the pointless retcons and snooze-inducing character drama. It's all downhill from the first scene, really.