“Brahms: The Boy II” is of course the sequel to “The Boy”. This is an absolutely disastrous sequel because its ending undoes the whole twist of the first movie. This is just a dreadful picture that never made me feel even remotely scared.

After a very violent burglary, Liza (Katie Holmes “Batman Begins”) has horrible nightmares and her son, Jude (Christopher Convery), has become a mute. The family leaves London for the countryside in the hope that it will help them to recover. Jude finds the mysterious Brahms doll in the nearby woods and begins to bond with it. However, Liza grows increasingly worried about the effects of the doll on her son. She becomes particularly distressed when she learns of the eerie history of the doll.

If you saw the first movie, you will be really confused about the direction that this one goes in with the Brahms doll. This feels more like a sequel to “Dead Silence” than “The Boy”. The doll here just doesn’t seem as creepy as it did the first time around. The acting from Katie Holmes is pretty poor. In her defence, the script is not so great. Christopher Convery is okay as Jude but the material is pretty weak. The other characters are not even vaguely interesting.

“Brahms: The Boy II” is a bad sequel to an already underwhelming horror flick. This one is likely to disappoint a lot of fans of the first movie but in a way, I do applaud the filmmakers for not merely recycling the plot points of the original. The early scenes depicting the robbery are actually far more disturbing than anything else in the rest of the movie. Although this is not a long movie, it’s very boring and not a lot happens. I don’t really know who would enjoy this film.