20 Worst Movies Of 2016 (So Far)

On paper, The Boy promised a lot: it was set in a great big creepy English manor house, it featured a vulnerable, naive tourist and most excitingly of all, it starred a disturbing looking porcelain faced doll that seemingly came to life. It should have been legitimately terrifying, but the reality was frustratingly far removed from that.

There were some good moments - simple jump scares - but they're few and fair between and by the time the second act is drawing to a close, the film absolutely loses its mind, first introducing an entirely superfluous violent ex-boyfriend and then a ludicrous reveal.

It's just so unsatisfying to learn the disappointing reality behind the supposedly haunted Brahms doll. Why they couldn't just leave it as a simple ghost story, rather than rendering it unrewatchable (there's no way the "twist" works with the mechanics of the scares for the rest of the film)?

The acting is pretty bland, the film is exceptionally dull and the ending is just stupid. Not British horror's finest moment.