The Boy 4K 2016 Ultra HD 2160p

A well-to-do English family hires an American nanny for their son. Upon arriving at the new place of work, the nanny discovers that her charge is not a real boy at all, but a human-sized doll who is treated like a living person. But the disturbing events that take place after the nanny breaks the strict rules she has established make her believe that the doll may actually be alive....

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American Greta (Lauren Cohen) moves to England, where she has to work as a governess in the house of an elderly couple. Greta is sure that she is going to take care of the child, but on the spot it turns out that she has to take care of a doll, which the couple consider their son Brahms, and to take care of the full program - guided by a list of ten points, detailing what she can do and what not. In fact, Brahms died many years ago, but the strange events that begin to happen with the arrival of Greta, make the girl suspect something paranormal.

The movie changed its title several times (the first was In a Dark Place, then it was renamed The Inhabitant) and changed its lead actress once - originally Jane Levy from the Evil Dead remake was signed for the lead role
As many people know, one of the main trends in modern Western cinema is rapprochement with China - box office receipts in this country are growing like on yeast, and there is a chance that next year the Chinese box office will overtake the North American one. At the same time, China remains a “closed” country and allows Western movies in its distribution only under a quota - or in the case of co-production, which is aimed not only at the creators of blockbusters (for whom an extra 100-200 million from the Chinese will not be superfluous!), but also those who are “simpler”.

In the U.S., the movie was launched in theaters without prior screening for critics, which usually does not mean anything good
“Doll” was engaged in three production companies, among them Huayi Brothers - one of the largest in China, which guaranteed the movie a fairly wide distribution in this country. But therein lies the catch - the fact is that China, at the most basic level, prohibits mysticism in movies. Ghosts, demons and other evil in the adaptations of folklore - it's welcome, but if we're talking about modernity, then everything becomes complicated, because the censors believe that there is nothing for the working people, building communism, head superstition to fill.

Because of this rule, Chinese horror movies are an extremely predictable and mostly sad spectacle, and it would be strange to think that the censors there would make an exception for “Doll” - and it doesn't matter that the video promises a quite honest mystery about a reanimated dummy from hell. But that's half the trouble, it's much sadder that in this very clip dumped almost all the spectacular moments of the movie - behind the scenes remained atmospheric, but monotonous promenades Greta through the night mansion, her inarticulate flirtations with a local guy played by Rupert Evans and the final act, in which it becomes clear that the creators of “Doll” inspired by a recent Australian horror film (the name of which we will not cite, so as not to spoiler). Nevertheless, beyond borrowing from the Australians of the central idea did not go - in “Doll” everything is much more banal and straightforward.

The authors manage to pump some energy out of the charisma of Lauren Cohen - one of the main stars of the popular series “The Walking Dead”. But the “classic” (in the most musty, stale sense of the word) plot, mediocre execution (director William Brent Bell is best known for the box-office, but clearly unsuccessful mokyumentary-horror “Obsessed”) and the dominance of compromises (on the one hand, Chinese with their censorship, on the other hand - the American age rating PG-13, excluding violent scenes) do not allow “The Doll” not only to stand out from the sonnage of similar horror films “a girl alone in a big house”, but also somehow thinly-remembered.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (85.0 Mb/s)
Resolution: 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1
#English: Dolby Digital 5.1
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary with film critics Julia Cunningham and Emily Higgins)

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English SDH, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (Canadian), Indonesian, Norwegian, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Vietnamese.