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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 26499
Released: December 18, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 18-DEC-2007
Media Type: DVD
Boy Eats Girl Reviews:
a nice little indy that will suprise you. 
2009-12-01 - I snagged this dvd off amazon just based on some positive reviews I had read on her, and to honest it wasn't bad at all. I don't need to get into te plot but all in all it had just enough humor to keep a smile on my face and enough splatter to keep my gore meter at attention.
The movie is shot really well and the acting isn't shabby either so the movie does deliver a good value for your movie watching experience. The end gorefest climax was well needed and worth the wait, was a little reminescent of Dead Alive (but not of that caliber)
If your a zombie flick nerd and you just have to watch every zombie movie out there this one won't end up at the bottom of the list, but it wont be at the top. I'd place it somewhere in the middle. I obviously can only base this on my zombie movie reference base which I'd like to say is fairly large.
Yum! 
2009-12-01 - Boy Eats Girl (Stephen Bradley, 2005)
I have watched a lot of unconscionably bad horror movies over the past week, and that may have something to do with why I was so taken with Boy Eats Girl, a silly, fun Irish zombedy from screenwriter Derek Landy, who's currently working on bringing the mega-popular Skullduggery Pleasant books to the silver screen. Sure, it has its flaws, but compared to some of the junk I had the misfortune of seeing this week, it's Oscar material. It put me in mind of such classics of stupidity as Night of the Creeps and Beware! The Blob, and I say that with all the affection it sounds like.
Nathan (RocknRolla's David Leon) is an Irish schoolboy with a mad crush on his childhood friend Jessica (Irish pop sensation Samantha Mumba). The night he plans to declare his love for her, egged on by his two lunkheaded friends, a series of badly-interpreted encounters leads Nathan to kill himself instead. Nathan's mother, who's been working on the renovation of a local church, happened to discover an ancient book in the crypt with the power to bring the dead back to life, and so Nathan wakes up the next day very thirsty and with an odd paleness to his skin. Other than that, though, life in high school is no different. Until, that is, the school bully angers Nathan, who ends up not only throwing him halfway across a football field, but chowing down on his insides...
We should probably state right off that Boy Eats Girl is not a horror film, in case you didn't pick that up from the title. This is a high school angst comedy that happens to feature zombies. (The more recent American equivalent, Dance of the Dead, was one of the best American films of 2008.) And that's what makes Boy Eats Girl such an enjoyable excursion; it never really tries to be a horror movie. It knows its limitatons, and it plays to them. Think of it as 10 Things I Hate About You with a dead Patrick. Oh, wait, that's tasteless. But the point still stands. *** ½
An Okay Zombie Flick!!!
2009-03-01 - I have seen a lot worse, but this was just 'so-so'. I liked when the girl is running zombies over with a tractor. If you like zombie movies, then you might like BOY EATS GIRL!!!
Not what I expected
2008-12-16 - I admit it, I expected extreme hokiness with this one. In fact, I rented it and then let it sit on top of the TV for a week because I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch it.
Surprising well done, decent story, and not the ultra low budget I had expected. A nice blend of comedy, with some scares built in, the characters were likable, the actors actually had a decent degree of talent, the story made sense, and it wasn't overdone.
I recommend this to fans of the horror genre, and those looking for a few laughs here and there!
Very enjoyable zomedy
2008-09-27 - Boy Eats Girl is pretty much everything the title implies: a bloody zombie-comedy that manages to pack a little bit of a punch. The boy of the title is Nathan (David Leon), whose unrequited love for a classmate (Samantha Mumba) takes a dire turn that results in Nathan's accidental demise. His mum proceeds to bring him back from the dead via voodoo magic, and it isn't long before Nathan starts craving human flesh, and zombies run amok (literally, these are the running variety here). While Boy Eats Girl isn't as funny as it aspires to be, it features a game cast and some memorable gore effects which really get shown off in the film's blood-soaked finale. Clocking in at a brisk 80 minutes, Boy Eats Girl is definitely worth seeing for zombie fans that couldn't get enough with Shaun of the Dead, and while Boy Eats Girl isn't nearly as enjoyable as that film, it still manages to be a short and fun ride regardless.
