The Holy Boy

Horror, Thriller, Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Paolo Strippoli

Status Released

Release Date 2025-09-17

Storyline

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.