The trailer begins by showing a creepy old house and introduces a woman who has come to take care of a young boy. However, it is revealed that the boy is actually a china doll, and the elderly couple who owns the house provide strange instructions for caring for him. Strange events begin to occur in the house, as the boy is able to move from room to room without explanation. The woman becomes unsettled and frightened by his mysterious abilities. It becomes clear the boy is not what he seems, and the woman soon realizes he may be threatening her safety in the creepy old house.

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

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
creating tension.

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

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

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.