David Day Horror Movie Talk Sep 18, 2025 3/10

Brahms: The Boy II is a sincerely boring movie that does everything technically correct on paper. Casting, acting, pacing, direction – it’s all passable. The end result is boring as sin, though.

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Paul Lê Nightmare on Film Street Jul 20, 2023 4/10

Nonsensical and unimaginative, the sequel offends on almost all counts. Even as a standalone, it's dull and rash. If this movie is an attempt at building a franchise, it's a poor jump-off.

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Tim Brayton Alternate Ending Jan 11, 2021 1.5/5

A dreadful trudge through dodgy horror clichés.

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Diana Mangas Los Interrogantes Jan 4, 2021 5.3/10

Entertaining horror film, with a diabolical doll included, for an afternoon of scares, and little else. [Full review in Spanish]

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Emma Wolfe SpookyAstronauts Oct 12, 2020 4/10

Trope after trope after trope.

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Lee McCoy DrumDums Jul 15, 2020 3/10

The first gave a fresh an unexpected twist. In the Boy II, filmmakers (same writer/director) decided to conform and step back in the horror cliche lines and make Brahms more stereotypical and uninteresting. What a shame.

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Carla Hay Culture Mix Jul 14, 2020

The biggest problem with Brahms: The Boy II is that there is almost nothing in the movie that is fresh or original.

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Richard James Havis South China Morning Post May 19, 2020 1.5/5

Most of the budget seem to have gone on Holmes' salary, as Brahms may have the least special effects of any horror film ever made.

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Zofia Wijaszka Film Inquiry May 4, 2020

Brahms: The Boy II has good intentions, but they get lost in the middle. We shall hope we won't have to experience a third boy because one of them is really enough.

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Stephanie Chapman Pop Culture Leftovers Mar 29, 2020

The performances by the main characters are acceptable, however no amount of talent or scenery can outweigh this film's mediocrity.

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Jorge Loser Espinof Mar 12, 2020 2.5/5

It is appreciated that it doesn't abuse of cheap scares, but it also doesn't make up for it with good horror scenes. [Full Review in Spanish]

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Mar 6, 2020 2/4

A lackluster sequel to a lackluster original...

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Becca James Chicago Reader Mar 6, 2020

What the film's director William Brent Bell and writer Stacey Menear do get right, however, is Brahms's ability to endear himself to those around him.

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Vincent Schilling Indian Country Today Mar 5, 2020 4.9/10

This just didn't even hold a candle to the first. The premise was good and could have delivered, but in the simplest way to say it, it just didn't.

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Matt Hudson What I Watched Tonight Mar 5, 2020 1.5/10

Awful, just terrible. Lacklustre in all departments, lacking in scares, atmosphere and tension with abysmal CGI and, as a final nail in the coffin, it's actually rather boring.

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May Leitz Nyx Fears Mar 5, 2020

Alternative title...Braums: The Boy 2 Ending Explained, but it's really not complicated enough to warrant an explanation.

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Korey Coleman Double Toasted Mar 5, 2020

This was stupid. Stupid. What was that I just saw? Ridiculous.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Feb 29, 2020 1/4

Watching Brahms: The Boy II, one gets the feeling that the picture was only made on a dare.

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Feb 27, 2020 1.5/5

Quoth the other, more bewhiskered and musically inclined Brahms, "The only true immortality lies in one's children." Oh, Johannes, if only you knew.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Common Sense Media Feb 27, 2020 1/5

Filled with lifeless characters, basic jump-scares, and very little else, this useless horror sequel betrays whatever good ideas the 2016 original had in a poor attempt to create a monster franchise.

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