Not to be confused with the dramatic slasher carrying the same name, STX Entertainment just released the first trailer for The Boy, and it looks spooky as hell.
Channeling Don Mancini and Tom Holland’s Child’s Play, as well as James Wan’s The Conjuring/Annabelle, The Boy is a haunter about a doll that is seemingly alive. Outside of it being directed by William Brent Bell, who is responsible for the awful Stay Alive, The Devil Inside and WER, the trailer promises all sorts of creepy moments and looks quite chilling.
In the film starring “The Walking Dead’s” Lauren Cohan, “Greta (Cohan) is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover that the family’s 8-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son 20 years prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta’s worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually alive.”
The Boy comes to life on January 22, 2016.
