The Boy 2: 'Brahms: The Boy II' Review: A Sequel No One Needed Inside a …

The creepy doll tortures a new family (and new star Katie Holmes), but this time without a sense of humor or even much sense at all.

None of that for “Brahms: The Boy II”; instead, it tucks into trauma, and the divide is so sharp that savvy audiences might wonder if some penny-pinching executive took a wholly unrelated spec script and tried to make it conform to Brahms’ icky contortions.

However, that’s not how “Brahms: The Boy II”works, preferring to weave Liza and Jude’s trials (which are good enough for their own original movie) inside a mythology that gets messier by the minute.

At just 86 minutes, “Brahms: The Boy II” should fly by, but the film lurches forward with its momentum punctuated by bad jump scares and odd flashback sequences.

Grade: C“Brahms: The Boy II” is now in theaters.