[Review] 'The Boy' Manages to Entertain Despite its Silly Premise

STX Entertainment's first movie of 2016 is The Boy, a fun little thriller about a woman who must babysit a really creepy looking doll. Being the second wide-release horror film to come out this year (the first being the disappointing ghost story The

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STX/Lakeshore's PG-13 horror film The Boy won't mature much this weekend either, coming in around $9.4M to $9.9M after a front-loaded Friday. Again, the East Coast numbers are light and lackluster. The core horror genre audience wasn't too keen on it 

STX/Lakeshore's PG-13 horror film The Boy won't mature much this weekend either, coming in around $9.4M to $9.9M after a front-loaded Friday. Again, the East Coast numbers are light and lackluster. The core horror genre audience wasn't too keen on it 

The basic premise behind the horror film The Boy is that children and dolls are inherently terrifying. This point was confirmed last week when I interviewed the movie's lead—Lauren Cohan (Maggie from The Walking Dead)—over Skype and noticed, in the