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The Boy (2015)

The Boy poster
Directed by
Craig Macneill
Genre
drama film, horror film, psychological horror fiction, slasher film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
15
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 209 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young boy living in a rundown motel with his father begins to show disturbing behavior. The story follows his developing tendencies toward violence and the isolation of his family.

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What happens

The Boy is a 2015 American horror film directed by Craig Macneill, written by Macneill and Clay McLeod Chapman, and starring Jared Breeze, David Morse, and Rainn Wilson. It is based on a short film by Macneill and Chapman, Henley, which was in turn loosely inspired by a novel written by Chapman, Miss Corpus. Breeze plays the titular boy, a budding serial killer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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