Boy Eats Girl (2005)

All in all, this is reasonably engaging stuff, an amusing enough Irish spin on modern zombie fare, partly a romantic drama as well. It clearly aspires to be like "Shaun of the Dead", with a level of gore akin to that of Peter Jackson's "Braindead". It's not in the same league as those other films, but it's likable, has some good laughs, and definitely delivers in the violence department. David Leon stars as Nathan, a guy secretly in love with his friend Jessica (Samantha Mumba). Depressed after seeing what he is thinks is Jessica getting with another guy, he's playing around with a noose and accidentally gets killed by his mom, who's already learned how to resurrect the dead thanks to some standard issue ancient artifacts she's found. Trouble is, she didn't know how to prevent the resurrection from turning her son into a zombie. David chows down on a grumpy bully, who in turns creates more zombies who keep the cycle going. So David, who's trying to suppress his newfound hunger for human flesh, teams up with his friends to try to save the day. Now, "Boy Eats Girl" is rather slow to get going, as it builds up the romantic portion of its plot, but it does at least feature genuinely amiable characters. The young actors do the best at getting into the spirit of this thing, with Nathan's friends Diggs (Tadhg Murphy) and Henry (Laurence Kinlan) tending to steal the show. Singer Mumba looks great, but despite being top billed basically plays second fiddle to the guys - until she kicks a ton of zombie ass with some handy farm machinery. This is a true highlight as the movie kicks into gear, and things get pretty exciting and darkly funny. The movie refrains from ever getting bogged down in exposition, so that's one good thing. The wrap-up isn't totally satisfying (whatever happened to the mom?), and this doesn't add up to much when it's all over, but it's still easy enough to watch, and zombie movie lovers should be pleased with the amount of brutality on display. Six out of 10.

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. Then his dear ol' ma resurrects him with a voodoo book she happened to find in the church she was cleaning. 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? The Acting. Samantha was great and it is pretty good for a comedy movie. For a horror movie I would give this negative marks as they were feeble. The zombies themselves were terrible with minimal make up. The effects Pretty dire, a little bit of blood her and there and some naff makeup. Comment. Feeble attempt to make an Irish Shaun of the dead. It is a very limp by the number comedy horror movie. Only worth renting to see Samantha Mumba as a schoolgirl. 6/10 for a comedy 4/10 for a horror movie

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. However, lacking any decent laughs and saddled with some particularly crap plot devices, the film is only partially successful. If you a) find it unlikely that a voodoo manual would be lurking in a church vault, and b) doubt that a suddenly bereaved mother would resurrect her son in what appears to be a very messy ritual (we don't get to see the process by which he is brought back to life—another big mistake, I think), then wait 'til you see how the film ends.... the mother 'cures' her zombified son with the bite of a snake that she finds in the church.Yes.... that's right.... a snake bite can cure you of being a rotting flesh-eating corpse!!! 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.

I didn't expect an awful lot from this film, I sat prepared to just go along for the ride and take whatever enjoyment I could from the experience. Which is why I'm so surprised it left me quite this disappointed.There were one or two moments that aroused a vague smile, but it fell far short of anything I'd consider comedy. The acting was, for the most part, painfully wooden... movements so deliberate and self-conscious that you'd think you were watching the rehearsal... constantly jolting me out of the (generous level of) suspension of disbelief I was affording it.The plot was uninteresting, tired and boring. I felt nothing for any of the characters, they all could have been eaten or horribly killed and I wouldn't have cared in the slightest.This is a bad film, plain and simple. The only recommendation I'd give it is to someone I disliked.