Nathan is about to tell his close friend Jessica about his true feelings for her, but through a series of misunderstanding, he ends up hanging himself instead. His mother brings him back to life with the help from some voodoo spell-book that she found in an Irish church. But Nathan's not the same guy that he used to be. Now he's crawing human flesh and happens to bite a school mate who continues to spread the zombie infection further, and turn the whole school into flesh-craving zombies.
A zombie movie featuring Samantha Mumba. What the hell! I was kinda put off even before I had actually turned the movie on, and for the first 10 minutes or so I had to struggle against the vomit trying to make it all the way up through my throat. But after a while some things started to happen that, even if it wasn't that great, was still entertaining enough to make you wanna keep watching. Keep in mind that this is a teen-flick, but that it actually delivers a huge amount of gore, and that alone is well worth watching.
It's not too often we get to see an Irish horror production so only that alone makes it somewhat interesting, well at least it's something different. Boy Eats Girl is kinda like a mix between some shitty zombie horror movies, and add to that some teen-flick type of humour and a big doze of Shaun of the Dead to top it off with. Although, were Shaun of the Dead managed to truly be funny, this one fails miserably trying to do the same. I guess if you're 12 years old you'll appreciate it, but other than that, NO.
 
Nathan (David Leon) has a crush on Jessica (Samantha Mumba), but instead of ending up in bed with her, he ends up wanting to feed on human flesh. Although, he can resist his hunger throughout the movie, and the zombie infection spreads when he's fighting a school rival and happens to bite him, and that guy continues to spread the infection further. Everyone who gets bitten turn into a zombie the second after, but Nathan manages to never really turn, what's that about?
So what does this movie have going for it? Well, except for the stupid teen humour that the viewer has to sit through, it's actually fast-paced and so never really gets boring to watch as something's happening all the time the movie throughout. But the greatest thing here is definitely the gore, and that's actually the one thing that ends up saving this movie in the end. We get to see some gore the whole movie throughout, but it's especially one scene that stands out among the rest. It's a little similar to the most splattery scene in Braindead with the lawnmover, but I won't spoil it for you. If you like to see guts, blood and limbs fly around then you might wanna check it out.
The score is completely awful, consisting of shitty pop music that makes your head ache and is kinda hard to sit through. The acting is actually not very good, it's not wooden or totally bad, just not very good. And I don't see the reason why Samantha Mumba had to be in this movie, she's crap and they could've easily picked someone else.
Bad stuff: Samantha Mumba, the acting, humour, irritating characters, score etc.
Good stuff: Fast-paced and actually delivers some real gore, and that's the one thing that saves this movie, or that is, the only reason why one would watch it. Kinda ok, but can't really recommend it.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Stephen Bradley
WRITING CREDITS: Derek Landy
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
CAST: Samantha Mumba, David Leon, Sara James
COUNTRY: Ireland
RUNTIME: 85 min
RATING: 5/10
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