After the opening credits, we get the tweens' backstory.
Playing catch before the game, Kevin goes to retrieve a ball and never returns.
Bobby hesitates, then follows and, seeing no sign of his friend, gets the shivers.
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This is where we catch up with the boys in the car, or rather, in the trunk.
Kevin is promptly taken inside and Bobby is left in the darkness.
Here, the story divides viewers about the choices that young boys might make.
Returning to the house, he embarks on a wildly murderous and bloody, escape room-style ordeal.
The original creative team is involved in the sequel.
Kind of likeThe Gooniesbut with an enormous emphasis onblood, violence, and the horrorof pedophilia.
Viewers are divided on howThe Boy Behind the Doorends.
Maybe the boys are in heaven, maybe they made it to California after all.
Either way,a promise made is a promise kept.
It can be said that Powell and Charbonnier followedThe Shininga little too closely (the ax through the door?
and recycled some ideas, as well as a protagonist, from their child-in-danger outing,The Djinn.
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