Movies like The Boy

“The Boy (2016) is a 2010s American psychological-horror that stages domestic unease through a remote-house nanny premise. It focuses on an uncanny life-sized child-doll and uses claustrophobic interiors, high-contrast chiaroscuro and slow-burn pacing to foreground rules, ritual and eroding trust. The film argues that disciplined visual grammar and a performance-led center can convert a familiar gothic template into sustained psychological tension.”