The trailer begins by showing a creepy old house and introduces a woman who has come to take care of a child. She meets an older couple who reveal their "son" - a china doll that is identical to the boy in a painting of the family. Strange events begin to occur, and it's revealed that the boy died in a fire years ago. The woman tries to prove the boy is responsible for the strange happenings. As she breaks the rules left for caring for the boy, increasingly scary titles appear and fast-paced clips show both adults being terrorized by the unnatural child.

1. The BoyThe opening scene of this trailer begins with the shot of a very
creepy, large house. Automatically it makes the audience
think about the genre of the movie as it looks like the
stereotypical house used in a horror movie. It is dark and cold,
it doesn’t look very welcoming.
There is then a medium close up of
a women getting out of a cab. She
looks up.We then see what she can
see through a point of view shot.
She looks up to the window and
there is an older lady standing
looking down at her. She is dressed
in dark colours.This could be seen
as a bit daunting. The women then
enters the house and there’s voices
of two different characters, but we
can’t actually see them when we
hear the voices. The conversation is
“do you think you can manage?”
and the other voice replies “of
course”.While we can hear these
voices, on the screen an clip of a
painting comes up.The painting is
of 3 people, a man, a women and a
little boy.The women in the painting looks very similar to the
women standing in the window, so the audience
here can make relation to the fact that she lives in
the house.The man is standing above the women
with his hand on her shoulder, he is quite old.The
little boy is the lowest in the picture, he looks as if
he is sitting down. He is holding on to the women’s
hand. He is in a grey suit with a red tie. A slight

2. We then see the younger lady from the
beginning introducing her-self to a man
named “Malcom” who refers to himself as the
grocery boy.They are in what it seems like a
living room, it is very old fashioned with large
fire places. He is a middle-aged man, who
looks quite friendly.We then see an older
couple, very similar to the ones drawn in the
picture.The both introduce themselves, step
back and say “and this is our son” to reveal a
china like doll sitting on a chair, identical to the
little boy in the painting.The younger women
starts awkwardly laughing, as he clearly isn’t
human and she thinks they are playing a joke
on her.They both look at her with blank
expressions and she instantly stops laughing.
There is then a close up of the little boys face,
and we can see in even more detail how un
human he is.
Next all the different
production companies are
shown so we don’t see
anymore clips of what is
going to happen for a short
pause. Quite creepy music is
playing in the background

3. The women is clearly very
fascinated by the past
and how this boy became
like this. She begins to
look in photo books.
There is an over the
shoulder shot of the
women looking through,
from the images we can
see, the child used to look
like a completely normal
little boy. Malcom tells
the women how a little
girl used to come and play
with the boy, but one day
they found her body in
the woods, and by the
time the police arrived
the place was up in
flames.
We then see a record player, this specific prop shows that this
is a very old house. Next, we see the older man giving the
younger lady a list of instructions, as he does this he says “he
isn’t like other children”.The older couple then leave in a cab
somewhere, leaving the younger women holding the china
like doll. The list of instructions contain some strange
commands such as “don’t cover his face” and “save meals in
the freezer”.
We then see a shot of the child sitting at the table
and the girl goes and throws his left over dinner in
the bin. When she looks back he has gone, she hears
a smash of a plate and then the screen blacks. She
confronts Malcom and tries to prove her point to
him. She places the child on the floor and draws
around where he is sat.They both then exit the
room.When the return, he has gone. Malcom refers
to it as “some kind of magic trick” and the women
replies “it’s not a trick”.

4. They look at going up into the loft and
Malcom says “no ones been up there
for years” as he finishes his sentence,
instantly the ladder up to the loft lifts
up by its self and slams shut. Then
suddenly a black screen appears with
the words “when you break the rules”.
The music gets deeper and scarier.
There is then a shot of the women
leaning over the child in bed and she
says “you wouldn’t hurt me, would
you?”. Then another black screen
appears with the words “your worst
nightmare”. The clips following this
begin to get a bit more fast paced, and
we hear Malcom’s voice say “it’s not
safe in this house”. Another black
screen appears following saying
“come to life”.

5. Very creepy, nursery styled music
begins to play.We see all different
jumpy types of clips, with both
adults hiding from the little boy, the
little boy crying and also one where
the door handle starts to move and
the door slowly opens.We see both
characters been thrown around a
room.There is then suddenly a very
quick montage at the end showing
all different kinds of things
happening, then it blacks out and we
see the title saying “The Boy”.There
is then one final shot, and this is of
the women looking at the painting.