It’s spooky season, and the Nerds Against Normality crew are diving headfirst into another horror review — this time tackling The Boy (2016), starring The Walking Dead’s Lauren Cohan. Leaving Maggie behind, Cohan steps into a new kind of nightmare: a gothic mansion, a creepy porcelain doll named Brahms, and a plot that somehow manages to be both tense and totally vanilla.

Before diving into the review, we catch up on what we’ve been up to since our last recording — Harry talks about seeing the stage play Dear England, Stacey shares her thoughts on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, and Ben gives us his verdict on the book Year of the Rat. Then it’s straight into the world of horror, logic gaps, and lukewarm scares.

In this episode, we discuss how The Boy delivers atmosphere without payoff, how its “scares” rarely land, and how the story plays it far too safe for a horror release. From ineffective jump scares to one of the most predictable “twists” in modern horror, we dissect it all — with the usual mix of insight, humour, and friendly chaos you’ve come to expect from Nerds Against Normality.

So grab your headphones, pour something spooky, and join us as we ask the big questions:

Is Brahms scary… or just misunderstood?

Did Lauren Cohan deserve a better script?

And can a horror movie be this clean-cut and still call itself scary?

🕯️ It’s Halloween, it’s horror, and it’s another classic Nerds Against Normality review.

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