Boy Eats Girl

Plot synopsis:
While working in the church, Grace finds a hidden crypt. While exploring she discovers a voodoo book, however she is soon sent away by Father Cornelius. Grace's son, Nathan attends the local high school, with his friends Henry and Diggs. Nathan likes his long-time friend Jessica however is too scared to ask her out, in case he is rejected. Also in the school are popular girls Charlotte, Glenda and Cheryl. Cheryl pursues Nathan, despite already having a boyfriend, Samson, who confronts Nathan along with his womanising friend Kenneth after seeing Cheryl talking to Nathan. Meanwhile, Henry and Diggs, fed up with Nathan not asking out Jessica, force the pair to meet after school.
While Nathan waits for Jessica, he writes a note about what he will say to her to ask her out. Meanwhile, Jessica's over-protective father forbids her to leave, but she sneaks out. Nathan becomes impatient due to Jessica's lateness and leaves before Jessica arrives; she reads the note; however, through a misunderstanding, Nathan believes Jessica is with Kenneth. Nathan goes home and contemplates hanging himself in his room. Just as he dismisses the idea, Grace enters and knocks the chair over Nathan is standing on, causing him to be hanged. Grace returns to the church and performs a ritual from the book, which brings Nathan back to life. The ritual seems to have gone well, despite Nathan not remembering what happened, however Father Cornelius soon warns Grace that the book was damaged and those who are resurrected by it have the urge to eat human flesh.
At school, Nathan hears Kenneth lying about what happened with Jessica the previous night to Samson and another friend, Shane. As Jessica attempts to ask Nathan out, he turns her down, thinking what Kenneth said was true. As the day progresses, Nathan slowly succumbs to the symptoms of the book. At night, everyone heads to a school disco, where Nathan soon becomes more zombie-like and bites Samson before returning home. As Samson becomes a zombie, he attacks Shane and infects him. Jessica goes to Nathan's house to sort things out, but Nathan warns Jessica away from him, realising something is wrong with him.
The next morning, Grace tells Nathan what happened. Nathan realises that Samson is infected and tries to get the police to help capture him, but he is ignored. Returning home, Grace locks Nathan in the garage and starts to search for something to help him recover. Meanwhile, Charlotte has also become a zombie and infects Kenneth. Cheryl and Glenda go to a local bar, where they witness a zombie attack. Henry and Diggs also witness a zombie attack in the video shop. Henry and Diggs hide, and see that most of the town have been infected. They phone Jessica and tell her to lock herself inside her house. Henry and Diggs travel to Nathan's house and free him, before setting off to Jessica's. However, on their way they crash their car and have to continue on foot. Jessica is attacked by zombies in her house, including Samson, but she overpowers them and manages to escape.
Grace goes to the church, but is attacked by Father Cornelius. He is soon bitten by a snake in the crypt, revealing the snake's venom is the cure to the infection. She takes the snake and leaves. Outside, Cheryl and Glenda are hiding in the graveyard. They encounter the infected Charlotte who bites Glenda, allowing Cheryl to get away. Nathan finds Jessica in a barn beside her house, where Jessica tells Nathan that she never did anything with Kenneth. Meanwhile, Henry and Diggs arrive at Jessica's house, followed by Cheryl who is being chased by a group of zombies. They hide in a cupboard in the house until night time when they try to escape. As they go outside they are saved by Nathan, however a group of zombies close in on them, but Jessica manages to kill them with the aid of a tractor.
The survivors hide in the barn, but Samson and Shane get in and infect Cheryl. The others manage to escape to a platform, but are now trapped. They pour gasoline onto the barn floor, before Grace arrives with the snake. However, the snake escapes and the zombies begin to attack Grace. Nathan saves Grace, allowing her to escape, and also kills Samson. Nathan soon completely succumbs to the ritual, and becomes a zombie. As he is about to attack his friends, the snake bites him. The zombies quickly attack Nathan and he is caught in the fire that Jessica has ignited. Jessica, Diggs and Henry leave, and soon discover Nathan survived the fire, who finally asks Jessica to go out with him, to which she answers yes.

Tags: violence, cult

Review:
Yes i do admit that the storyline when it comes to the bit about how the zombies were created ( by voodoo) was a bit weak and also the love story between the two main characters was a bit too soppy, but you've got to expect that from a teen movie.
But as for the amount of gore that definitely deserves a 10 out of 10, not only is the tractor kill scene the best gore i've seen in a zombie movie ever it was stomach churning as well as funny.
"Boy Eats Girl" is an Irish-made romantic zombie comedy ("RomZomCom?") about a high schooler who, when he thinks he's lost the girl of his dreams, commits suicide ...
For those who are still reading, "Boy Eats Girl" was a hilarious horror/comedy treat with -- gasp!
As the film begins, our high school hero Nathan has already got enough problems -- being bullied by the jocks, abused on the rugby field - but when he accidentally misses a chance to tell his long time friend Jessica how he really feels about her, he goes home and hangs himself.
Hilariously over-the-top mayhem ensues.It takes a little while for the zombie shenanigans to really get going in "Boy Eats Girl" but once it does I doubt any gorehound will be disappointed.
The compact run time (just about 80 minutes) keeps "Boy Eats Girl" from overstaying its welcome, and wraps everything up nicely.Fans of "Shaun of the Dead" or "Zombieland" should get a few kicks out of "Boy Eats Girl," and the film is a worthy addition to the growing Zombie Comedy genre..
The movie had its share of plot holes (quite a few of these were pretty big.) But on the whole I did find it funny and I was smiling by the end so it wasn't too bad, just nothing to write home about.
From the title "Boy eats Girl" it's pretty clear that this film is one that requires you to leave your brain outside the door.
If you're hoping for anything more than a bit of enjoyable fluff, look elsewhere.The film starts off great, the audience gets to know the main characters quite well, and there are more than a few good laughs.
However the gory bits (which there is quite a lot of for a 15A film) are varied and inventive enough to keep the viewers entertained.The main cast all do a good job, in particular David Leon and Tadhg Murphy.
Some of the supporting cast however (for example, Bryan Murray as Fr.Frears) are awful.Overall it is an entertaining, funny, gory movie, and one of the best Irish productions in a long time..
"Boy Eats Girl" is an unoriginal Irish comedy about a group of zombies that are not living dead, but teenagers infected by the bites of their schoolmates that follows the American style with Irish accent.
Throw in some lovey dovey side-plot crap and you basically have Boy Eats Girl.The flick most importantly, isn't that bad.
Only good can come from this.Boys Eats Girl is a pretty damn average RomZomCom flick that was entertaining based solely on the amount of blood it spilled.
Part satire and part romantic-comedy, Boy Eats Girl should be looked upon as a homage to the classic 70s horror genre and not a poor effort at recreating the success of Shaun of the Dead.
Not wholly European as you'd expect but it works on most levels, just not so much on the humour however.Nathan (David Leon) is the heartbroken teenager who accidentally kills himself after making the mistake of witnessing the love of his young teenage life, Jessica (Irish pop sensation, Samantha Mumba) in a compromising situation with his school's Lothario.
Nathan's mother (Deirdre O'Kane) finds his lifeless body in his room and remembers the handy book of resurrection spells that she'd found just days earlier in the bowels of the church that she works at.As easy as you can say beginner's luck, she manages to bring back her son and gets him ready for the next day of school.
Things start to get a whole lot worse for him after last night's attack starts a chain reaction of killings, each spawning a much more vicious version of Nathan's condition.The plot and situation 'borrows' heavily from a handful of movies, especially the 1993 cult classic, My Boyfriend's Back with virtually the same sub-plot of unrequited love between the unfortunate undead and his high-school sweetheart.
As the movie is a relatively short enterprise, clocking in at about 77 minutes (including credits), it almost makes up for the lack of spilled blood and guts when the horror aspect of the film finally kicks in.Most satires succumb to taking themselves too seriously at some point in their films and Boy Eats Girl is no different.
The attempted suicide scene was clumsy and awkward; not exactly an endorsement for depressed teenagers everywhere.The film starts out slow, working out the set-up of the eventual suicide that triggers the rest of the plot, leaving just a third of the movie for bona fide zombie mayhem.
Leon's Nathan seems too self-aware and confident to pull off being the angst-ridden chump who finds it hard to bring up his true feelings around Jessica.From start to end, its campy throwback to nonsensical horror-comedy masks over its inability to find its feet and its problematic attempts at satire.
Boy Eats Girl is the kind of film to watch when you're in a non-committal mood, something that demands only vague attention and which doesn't try to be clever.
If you want a horror or a zombie movie then look elsewhere, it's neither nor does it try to be.It is a comedy, let's get it straight right now, not a zombie film.
Romero's legacy to pop culture and the film industry certainly gets a good outing here, but this isn't a film to make gorehounds feel fat and happy, nor will zombie purists find anything to debate over.A lot of the characters are like those from sappy American Teen comedies but with Irish accents and in situations involving blood and throw-away limbs.Perhaps this helps: It's California Man with gore.It entertained me for the short running time (about an hour I made it) and I liked it enough to cough up £5 for it.
He is brought back to life by his mother, as a flesh-craving zombieI found this movie so-what Original, with mum bringing back her son after he killed himself.Also enjoyed some really decent funny moments, that work really well with the rest of the movie.There were some really good bloody messy scenes, which were fun to watch.
The beginning is also good, but as the whole film it's said in just a few words and a movie would never look fine read as a bedtime story.
There's nothing much here to make the film stand out - the acting ranges from acceptable to awful (Mumba in particular should stick to singing), the story is pretty thin (even by zombie movie standards) and the whole movie drags a little, going too slowly at some points and rushing through more important parts.
The few decent jokes and some quality violence make it worth a rent, but in general, people looking for a good romantic zombie comedy should head for Shaun of the Dead..
I think they were pushing the boundaries of actors playing young characters even in comparison to the likes of 90210.Lacking in any of the fundamental elements of the genres it was going for; Horror, Comedy, Suspense.
For a comedy that's pretty lame.Still, there are a few gags in there, the zombies are decent, the gore is good and the story isn't that bad, which makes the film enjoyable..
"Boy Eats Girl" is a funny, brilliant take on both adolescence and the horror genre; the characters take center stage and the whole zombie plot is more of a side note.But...I loved it.
I've seen some pretty shoddy horror movies, but this film has excellent cinematography, decent special effects, and, most importantly, good acting and interesting characters.
I was of course drawn to "Boy Eats Girl" because it is a zombie movie, but also because of the pun title of the movie.
I watched this movie back in 2005 or 2006, and then decided to revisit it again in 2019 and actually getting around to making a review of it.While "Boy Eats Girl" is a zombie movie, it wasn't really all that great, and I did remember it as being a funny movie from back around 2005-2006 when I first saw it.
Watching it again in 2019, I can honestly say that the movie is definitely watchable, but it is by no account a great addition to the zombie genre.There wasn't enough gore and zombie make-up or special effects to keep me properly entertained.
"Boy Eats Girl" wasn't one such movie.It pains me to the very core when I see the zombies or infected running around and sprinting.
But it just doesn't feel right, it is as if that shambling zombie feel is a must for a zombie to be scary for me.While the characters in the movie were pretty much stereotypical and generic college student, I will say that David Leon was actually the primary force driving the entire movie with his performance, and he was also the one with the more detailed and meaningful character.For a zombie movie, then "Boy Eats Girl" holds very little aside from a hilarious movie title.
Boy Eats Girl is a teen horror romantic comedy that is somewhat of a cross between Clueless and Dead Alive aka Brain Dead.
If you have seen a decent amount of movies, Boy Eats Girl probably won't rock your socks off.
And it especially isn't every day that a feature film from Ireland turns out to be a horror comedy.
When it comes to horror, the movie does have a few somewhat pleasing bloody moments, particularly the climatic scene that in part rips off the climax of the Peter Jackson film "Dead Alive".
Since starting The Walking Dead, I've been on a bit of a zombie craze, and decided it was time to check out and old movie that had a really interesting cover.
Technical I suppose the movie is still considered rated R because of gore, even when the blood looks like V8 juice, but this film is anything but scary.
Boy Eats Girl, promises a zombie film for the ages, but it's more laughable than anything else.
You just can't take Irish people being pursued by the living dead seriously.There's some pretty poor acting in here and the whole situation pushes suspension of disbelief a little too far.There are a couple of good moments, but anyone could throw a couple of decent jolts into such a genre film  it lends itself to them...I can't understand how anyone can bugger up such a simple format.
(What I did first was watching Slither, another funny and sometimes spooky horror-movie and just after it, I watched Boy Eats Girl and my package of these two films really entertained me a lot!) Boy Eats Girl, though it is a teen horror, has also good camera shots in some scenes besides making you laugh in general, but be sure most of the things you laugh at purely comes from the fact that the wits are good enough and the movie isn't one of those poor teen-horrors which unfortunately suck while seriously trying to scare you!
It isn't a full-on horror movie, it's more like the Buffy movie with zombies instead of vampires and a lot more gore.
Well, it won't be the first time.Aside from the aforementioned gore, Boy Eats Girl is a horror-comedy with the emphasis on the comedy.
...with the only thing of note about it being that it was made in Ireland, and given the over(t)ly earnest attempt to imitate American cinema/TV, its Gaelic origins hardly matter.If "Boy Eats Girl" really had a $5mil budget, the bulk of it must have gone to one of its ostensible leads, pop singer Samantha Mumba, who had a moment in the sun in a smallish part in the mostly-wretched 2002 remake of "The Time Machine," and apparently came away from the experience with the idea that she's an actress.
The Irish take on the zombie genre, adopting a clever title, but little else in the movie is overly original.
Zombie fans often put aside originality if they get their grue, and "Boy Eats Girl" does in fact deliver plenty of ultra-violence, but a good deal of said carnage occurs off screen.
The film's highlight would have the be the showstopping splatterfest where Jessica(Samantha Mumba)gets inside her father's tractor and mows through an array of zombies, with blood and body parts scattered all over her yard.
The film features a romantic subplot between lovelorn Nathan(David Leon), the one whose mom brings back from the dead, and Jessica, whose pops forbids her to see him.
The use of a snake bite as it pertains to a possible cure for the virus is a bit hard to swallow, but the way the zombie outbreak is concocted in the film's plot, such a development seems only fitting..
Now here's Boy Eats Girl starring former teen pop star Samantha Mumba trying her hand at acting, and failing miserably.
The movie follows 17 year old Nathan who is in love with Mumba's character Jessica.
Following in the bloody footsteps of British zombie-themed romantic comedy Shaun of the Dead, Irish movie Boy Eats Girl sees a heart-broken schoolboy, Nathan (David Leon), accidentally hanging himself after mistakenly believing that the girl he loves, Jessica (ex-popstar Samantha Mumba, looking way too old for the part), is a slut.When Nathan's mother discovers the body of her dead son, she steals a voodoo book from the vault of a local church and reanimates him.
Unfortunately, she screws up the process (the book is missing a vital page), and Nathan returns as a flesh-craving zombie; it's not long before hordes of hungry undead are rampaging through the streets of Ireland.With its likable characters and fair amount of impressive gore, Boy Eats Girl had the potential to be a real winner.
One nip from the slithery little blighter, and Nathan is as right as rain, and getting smoochy with Mumba like nothing has happened.Oh well, at least before our hero is returned to normal and gets the girl (sheesh!), fans of excessive violence are treated to a bit of decent splatter (most of which happens towards the end of the film, so gore-hounds hang in there), including a spectacular incident involving a piece of heavy-duty machinery (with which limbs are scattered and bodies crushed), and a great moment where Nathan pulls the head off an undead school bully..
Not quite as good as "Shawn of the Dead," but still not too shabby.In Ireland, young go-nowhere teen Nathan pines for upper-class best friend Jessica, but is too nervous to show his true feelings.
Now Nathan needs to get to Jessica before it's too late."Boy Eats Girl" is a refreshing move away from the traditional zombie movies.
Finally the subtext of the forlorn love between Nathan and Jessica just adds to the entertainment value of the film.Sure, it's no Oscar-worthy movie, but it's definitely worth a watch..
Perhaps it's because of the natural humour, or the sense that the cast is having a whale of a time making it, but this is a fun if goofy way to spend seventy minutes of your life.The film goes about setting up the various characters (jocks, geeks, etc.) that you'd expect from a high school teen flick before introducing the zombie element.
The zombies themselves are played for laughs although the film is happy to wallow in the gore at key moments.
Pretty good comedy-zombie-teen thingie.The soundtrack is all US adolescent angst, but doesn't create horror/suspense effects.
David Leon stars as Nathan, a guy secretly in love with his friend Jessica (Samantha Mumba).
The best thing about this was Samantha Mumba as a school girl.The plot A guy accidentally commits suicide after he thinks (wrongly) that Sammy does not want a bit of his snake.
He bites some one and they turn into a zombie but will the ma finds a cure can she save Nathan and cure the world before the end of the movie?
Samantha was great and it is pretty good for a comedy movie.
Boy Eats Girl is set in an Irish town where a woman named Grace (Deirdre O'Kane) renovating a Church finds a hidden crypt & some ancient Pagan books on Voodoo rituals including the resurrection of the dead, initially the find doesn't seem significant but comes in very handy after her teenage son Nathan (David Leon) accidentally kills himself while drunk.
The script by Derek Landy isn't as much an out-and-out comedy as Shaun of the Dead was since most of it's comedic moments are one-liners or people reacting in silly ways to certain situations they find themselves in like someone taking an umbrella out of a golf bag to protect himself by accident rather than a golf club like his friends, the romance element is alright but a little corny while the horror aspects are OK with some decent blood & gore although it's not an overly dark film.
I'm not too happy about the happy ending either where the hero gets the girl, the bad guy is killed & a cure for being a zombie is rather luckily found by complete accident.
The acting is alright but rather predictably Samantha Mumba who is better known as a pop singer is terrible & you know your in trouble when she's the 'name' in it.Boy Eats Girl has a wonderfully amusing title, unfortunately the film isn't anywhere nears as imaginative, funny or clever & it's as simple & straight forward as that.
It's worth a watch if you like horror comedies but isn't anything brilliant whichever way you look at it.
The bad thing is, he develops a taste for human flesh.Review: Irish zombies, for a change.