Brahms Heelshire



Brahms Heelshire is the main antagonist of the 2016 horror film The Boy.

The Boy
As an attempt of escaping her abusive boyfriend, Greta accepts a job as a temporary nanny to an English family by the name of the Heelshires. She is then introduced to the married couple's son, Brahms, who turns out to be a life size porcelain doll. Supposedly, the real Brahms perished in a fire twenty years ago, and he had apparently rejected several nannies prior to being introduced to Greta. As Mr. and Mrs. Heelshire were leaving for their vacation, Greta is given a list of rules to follow in regard to their son.

Greta predictably ignores the rules, and as a result, mysterious events start to happen. Brahms would seemingly move on his own, and he would disappear and reappear anywhere in the house. She eventually starts to believe that Brahms' soul was inhabiting the doll after she was given a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich. Malcolm, the Heelshires' grocery boy, tries to convince Greta into leaving the house by telling her that the real Brahms presumably murdered his childhood friend, but she refuses. Meanwhile, the Heelshires write a goodbye letter to their son, and they then drown themselves by walking into a river.

Cole, Greta's ex-boyfriend, arrives to the Heelshire household, fully intent on forcing Greta to return to Montana. He smashes the porcelain doll, but he is immediately attacked and killed by a grown Brahms. As Greta was in the attic, she finds photographs of Brahms' childhood friend, as well as her missing dress and jewelry. She learns that Brahms was actually moving the doll to give the illusion that it was alive. To her horror, she figures out that the Heelshires had offered her as a sacrifice to Brahams for his "keeping" as they did with previous nannies.