"Schizophrenic Ending to a Schizophrenic Concept"

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BRAHMS: THE BOY II never gives a final supernatural or theological explanation for the abilities of the creepy doll, which can move its head and eyes, overturn a large table and perhaps even kill. Also, a short epilogue reveals that the doll’s evil spirit has somehow survived, despite the doll’s physical destruction in a previous scene. Thus, although the parents think they’ve defeated and destroyed the doll and its evil spirit, they really haven’t. The story in BRAHMS: THE BOY II is ultimately depressing, unsatisfying and abhorrent.
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BRAHMS: THE BOY II takes the creepy doll from the original 2016 horror movie and fashions a story where the doll haunts a young married couple and their little boy when the family movies into the guest house near the spooky mansion from the first movie. In BRAHMS, it’s like the twist ending to the first movie never happened. Now, unlike the last movie, the doll is really and truly possessed by some kind of evil spirit that can also possess the young couple’s son. Can the parents save their son from the doll’s evil spirit?
Despite its apparent occult worldview, BRAHMS: THE BOY II never gives a final supernatural or theological explanation for the abilities of the creepy doll, which can move its head and eyes, overturn a large table and perhaps even kill. The movie implies that the evil spirit animating the doll can somehow create a dual, schizophrenic personality in the married couple’s son. Also, a short epilogue reveals that the doll’s evil spirit has somehow survived, despite the doll’s physical destruction in a previous scene. Thus, although the parents think they’ve defeated and destroyed the doll and its evil spirit, they really haven’t.
The story in BRAHMS: THE BOY II is ultimately depressing and unsatisfying. Although a couple scenes hint that the son’s mother may be imagining things, that doesn’t seem to be the case at the end. BRAHMS: THE BOY II is abhorrent, because the evil spirit wins in the very end. Perhaps another sequel, however, will carry the story forward and explain the origins of the evil spirit and how it can be destroyed.