The Boy Trailer





The trailer starts out by introducing you to the babysitter and the parents of the boy, they state that they have had a number of potential nannies but don't mention why they have never worked out. It soon becomes clear why the other nannies didn't continue their job after we are introduced to the 'child' named Brahms who is actually a doll. At first the babysitter laughs and thinks that they must be joking but it soon becomes apparent that they are in fact not joking and think that this boy is actually real. it soon becomes clear that the genre is horror this is based from the iconographies that are shown in the first few seconds of the trailer the main one being the creepy life like doll along with the creepy music and scary old mansion which are a common theme in many horror films out there. Its not just the house that is typical but also the dark and eery surroundings this also fits in with the horror genre. The father of Brahms states that he is not like other children, this gives the film a sense of mystery and fits in with the genre of horror as there is always an deranged or weird character and Brahms is that character. The babysitter is then given a list of rules to follow and before the parents leave they tell the babysitter 'be good to him and he'll be good to you' this is a somewhat juxtaposition as its a doll so how can it be good to you, it can't even speak. It appears later in the trailer that Greta, the babysitter, has ignored the rules and is instead doing the opposite of what they asked, in the background of the trailer creepy music is playing, this is non-diagetic. As soon as she stops listening to the rules things start to go wrong, fast! The doll starts dissappearing and appearing in a different part of the house, creepy laughter can also be heard throughout the house. greta then shows the grocery man what has been happening with Brahms and he can't believe it. Greta then asks the grocery man to tell her about the real Brahms, he proceeds to tell her that he was a strange boy and he implies that he killed a girl and the police found her body in the woods but by the time the police went to check the place it was up in flames, this brings an even creepier feel to the film. He then tells Greta that Brahms didn't make out of the fire alive... meaning he's dead