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| Directed by | Dennis Dimster |
| Produced by | Peter Abrams Natan Zahavi Robert L. Levy |
| Written by | Jonathan Glassner |
| Starring | Brian Bonsall Ashley Laurence John Diehl Mimi Craven Whitby Hertford Lyman Ward |
| Music by | Tim Truman |
| Cinematography | Tom Jewett |
| Editing by | Omer Tal Natan Zahavi |
| Studio | Constantin Film |
| Distributed by | Imperial Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | September 23, 1992 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Mikey is a 1992 horror film directed by Dennis Dimster and starring Brian Bonsall. The film centers on the character of Mikey Holt, a young boy who is adopted by a family after his previous adoptive family dies. Rather than the darling child they expected, however, Mikey turns out to be a violent sociopath and a budding serial killer.
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Every family Mikey lives with has a series of unexplained "accidents" and hence he's moved from home to home.
Mikey is disciplined by his foster parents for starting a fire indoors, so he responds by causing his foster sister to drown in the pool, electrocuting his foster mother while she's in the bath, and killing his foster father with a bat. Mikey avoids suspicion because he's only nine and by telling the police that an intruder killed his foster family.
Mikey falls in love with his best friend's older sister Jessie, but she isn't interested in him as she is 15 years older than Mikey and is with a man called David. Mikey's teacher is also investigating him because she's noticed something odd about Mikey's behavior. In an attempt to make Jessie love him, he electrocutes David while he's in a jacuzzi. After this fails, Mikey kills his foster father, his foster mother, and his teacher with a slingshot and ball bearings, the school's principal and (nearly) Jessie. To avoid being blamed, Mikey fakes his own death using the body of a boy the same age as him. Jessie is told by the authorities that Mikey is dead. By the end of the movie, Mikey goes under the name Josh and is adopted by another family.
The film was withdrawn from release in the United Kingdom following the James Bulger murder in Liverpool in 1993. The decision was made by the BBFC which refused to issue it with a UK release certificate in 1996. Unlike other banned films that have since been reclassified and released, this film remains prohibited in the UK.[1]