Brahms: The Boy 2: Smart and Sensible Horror Movie Characters

Brahms: The Boy 2 is a sequel to The Boy that came out in 2016. It was about a house that was haunted by a possessed doll that turned out to be crazy child that killed someone and was living in the walls for many years. Brahms: The Boy 2 continues the story of Brahms and expands the universe.

The movie starts out with a mother played by Katie Holmes and a son are victims of a home invasion. Katie has PTSD and the son stops talking and only communicates by writing down responses. The family goes to the country to relax and the son finds the Brahms doll buried in the woods. The son takes the doll home and over the next few days he and Brahms are inseparable. The son says Brahms talks to him and has rules like he must have a dinner plate and must be with the son at all times. The mom has hallucinations due to the home invasion.

In the beginning all the weird things happening in the house can be attributed to the son acting out. The parents don’t think anything supernatural is happening at this point other than the son acting out so they have nothing to be suspicious about until the son seems to be a little violent and has violent drawings in his notebook. The son says Brahms has done all the bad and strange things happening but the parents don’t believe him. At one point the son is in the dining room with the doll and is mad and the parents leave the room and there’s a loud bang and when the parents come back in the table is flipped over. The table is too big and the son is only ten. There’s no way the son could have done it and that’s what the dad says. When you eliminate all other possibilities, only the impossible remains.

The parents do some research on the doll and history of the house they are staying in and the information from the first movie comes up and the history of the doll begins to unravel. The son starts to act and dress like Brahms and wears the mask that Brahms wore in the first movie. The parents find the son doing a weird ritual with the doll and the mom distracts the son while the dad ones up behind the doll to destroy it with a sledgehammer. This is a clever idea by the parents and unique to horror movie characters. Also the son helps and is the one to actually destroy the doll which is nice. The son is at constant struggle to resist Brahms and has a key part in the plan to destroy the doll which is different. Usually children in horror movies are kind of useless.

Throughout the movie the characters make smart and rational decisions and don’t succumb to the usual tropes of horror movie characters. It’s a breath of fresh air in a world with so many bad horror movies. The son slowly dressing and acting like Brahms is clever and creepy. The references to the first movie are interesting and shed new light on it rather than rely on the first movie for plot. The sequel stands on its own and adds more to the first one as well. If your a fan of The Boy, you will enjoy Brahms: The Boy 2 as well. The one complaint was the sons acting was inconsistent. 🍔🍔🍔