The Boy I feel did a rather decent job at trying to provide a fresh approach to the whole "haunted house" old chestnut. I do however, also feel that a specific twist in the story, though it provides a pretty well constructed surprise, may not go down so well with avid horror fans, because it is a twist that to very large extent, jeopardizes the horror element at perhaps its most critical point, which also admittedly sacrifices potentially great scares, but, that is the cost the movie paid for choosing a more fresh take over a more cliché retake, and I believe it did it pretty well.
Lauren Cohan performed her role satisfactorily, and the story cloaked itself with some competently crafted creativity. The cinematography was first-rate and the directing was overall, good.
It may have had some points here and there where it flatlined just a little bit, as well as another point where it may have given away a rather important piece of the story maybe a bit too early, but The Boy once all is said and done, was a well made horror flick, that fared pretty well at trading cheap scares for a fresh lens, though that also risked the possibility of even greater scares to go with some great scares it already had.
7/10.
Lauren Cohan performed her role satisfactorily, and the story cloaked itself with some competently crafted creativity. The cinematography was first-rate and the directing was overall, good.
It may have had some points here and there where it flatlined just a little bit, as well as another point where it may have given away a rather important piece of the story maybe a bit too early, but The Boy once all is said and done, was a well made horror flick, that fared pretty well at trading cheap scares for a fresh lens, though that also risked the possibility of even greater scares to go with some great scares it already had.
7/10.