Boy Eats Girl

By Geoff Bough

Boy Eats Girl comes to us from Ireland which seems to be having a zombie outbreak (of films) of their own over the past few years.

Boy Eats girl is a teeny-zombie film that borrows from films like Night of the Living Dorks and Shaun of the Dead. It does however have some of its own entertaining moments.

In the opening of the film, we see a woman come across a mysterious book in an old hallway of a church. Upon opening the book, we see that it is a voodoo spell book.

Nathan who can’t quite muster the courage to ask his childhood friend Jessica out on a date has his master plan of wooing her derailed by her father. Nathan later sees Jessica with Kenneth and mistakenly thinks the two are going all the way. To make matters worse, Samson the school bully is convinced that Nathan has been flirting with his slutty girlfriend Cheryl.

Nathan returns home spurned by the nights events and winds up drunk and by way of accident, ends up hanging himself. Nathan’s mother will not accept this tragic end to her son’s life and uses the book she found to resurrect Nathan. Nathan comes-to as if nothing had happened except that now he feels no pain and craves human flesh.

That night at the school’s disco dance, Nathan is confronted by Samson. He goes crazy and takes a bite out of Samson’s face spitting the flesh out. The town is soon crawli…err, running with zombies. Yes, they run in this one.

As the town sets upon them, Nathan and his friends along with Jessica take a stand in a scene reminiscent of Lionel’s assault with the lawnmower in Braindead. Blood and severed parts are flying everywhere as Jessica uses a piece of farming machinery to puree her flesh-crazed classmates.

Nathan is now a becoming a threat as the infection is beginning to take affect and turn him against his friends. As Nathan’s mother stumbles upon the cure for the infection, a serpent’s bite, she races to save her son.

The ending of the film is a little concerning as we see the band of friends off their undead classmates after finding a cure for the infection. Another point that really threw me off was why is it that Nathan seems to be resistant to the infection when everyone else turns into a zombie immediately?

Its one thing to creatively pay homage to films that may have inspired you along your way but it’s another to blatantly rip off scenes from cult classics and use them in your own film. Boy Eats Girl had some potential but becomes confused trying to decide if it’s a horror film or a romantic comedy. It’s worth a watch but I’d much rather just watch Shaun of the Dead to fill my rom-zom-com needs.