| Boy Eats Girl | |
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| Directed by | Stephen Bradley |
| Produced by | Ed Guiney Andrew Lowe |
| Written by | Derek Landy |
| Starring | Samantha Mumba David Leon Laurence Kinlan |
| Music by | Hugh Drumm |
| Cinematography | Balazs Bolygo |
| Editing by | Dermot Diskin |
| Studio | Element Films |
| Distributed by | Odyssey Distributors Ltd. |
| Release date(s) | April 5, 2006 |
| Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | Ireland United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | €3.6 million |
Boy Eats Girl is a 2005 horror film directed by Stephen Bradley and starring Samantha Mumba, produced and shot in Ireland.[1] The plot tells of a teenage boy who comes back to life as a zombie, similar to the plot of the American film My Boyfriend's Back.
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While working in the church, Grace (Deirdre O'kane) finds a hidden crypt. While exploring she discovers a voodoo book, however she is soon sent away by Father Cornelius (Lalor Roddy). Grace's son, Nathan (David Leon) attends the local high school, with his friends Henry (Laurence Kinlan) and Diggs (Tadhg Murphy). Nathan likes his long-time friend Jessica (Samantha Mumba) however is too scared to ask her out, in case he is rejected. Also in the school are popular girls Charlotte (Sarah Burke), Glenda (Jane Valentine) and Cheryl (Sara James). Cheryl pursues Nathan, despite already having a boyfriend, Samson (Mark Huberman), who confronts Nathan along with his womanising friend Kenneth (Conor Ryan) 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 (Paul Reid). 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 Cheryl makes out with Nathan, before he runs away. Samson follows him and begins to fight him for what he did with Cheryl. Nathan soon becomes more zombie-like and bites Samson before returning home. As Samson becomes a zombie, he attacks Shane and infects him, before more pupils and students are also infected. Jessica goes to Nathan's house to sort things out, but Nathan warns Jessica away from him, realizing 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 grarage and starts to search for something to help him recover. Meanwhile, Kenneth is infected by Charlotte. 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. Natahan saves Grace, who escapes, and kills Samson, but has now become a zombie. As Nathan is about to attack his friends, the snake bites him, however the zombies attack him and he is caught in the fire that Jessica starts. 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.
The film was the first non-pornographic film for some years to be banned by the Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO), due to a depiction of suicide. While the scene was not cut from the film, the IFCO appeals board overturned the ban, issuing a 15A rating.[2]
The film was released on DVD on December 18, 2007.[3]