The Loneliest Boy in the World

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Good movie!

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Is a a teen romance? Horror? Comedy? Or just a splodge of all three? It was set in America but filmed in england with half english actors with dodgy accents. Which added to the oddness I suppose. The acting was fine but the story was very juvenile with over the top performances. I certainly wouldnt pay to see it but if it came up streaming for free and you were a bit drunk then it might make a an OK evening. Otherwise I would avoid as there is much better stuff you could waste your time with. Needed to be darker and less jokey. Basically a Halloween film for 12 year olds , which is probably the target audience.

Not everybody appreciates dark humor and this film is dark humor perfected. Wife and I loved it! Definitely gonna be a buy via Redbox. My thought is that this film may have grossed out the squeamish which only serves to demonstrate that this type of film is an acquired taste and not for someone looking for typical horror fare. Perhaps a bit more niche but feel this is on Everything Everywhere All at Once tier for entertainment. The subtle quips and attention to detail are on par. The film also has a aesthetic that reminds me of Stranger Things and it's nostalgia. People need to stop judging the corpse based on superficial rotten flesh. Not cool guys!

Oliver (Max Harwood) is dealing with the sudden death of his mother and when he's released from a psychiatric facility, he's told he has one week to make a friend or go back. All he knows is watching Alf on TV and going to his mother's gravesite to tell her the details of the creature from Melmac and his interactions with the Tanner family. Yet when he learns of the death of a young boy around his age named Mitch (Hero Fiennes Tiffin). He decides to dig him up, as well as Susanne (Susan Wokoma), a young girl named Mel (Zenobia Williams), Frank (Ben Miller) and even a dog. He brings them home and sets them up on the couch and it makes him happy. To his surprise, the next morning they've all come back to life and become his family. Somehow, director Martin Owen (The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud) has taken a story that could have been totally presented as a serial killer origin and turned it into a family comedy with Oliver getting the sitcom mother, father, sister and brother he always wished he had. They teach him life lessons, show him how to talk to girls and how to be happy. Sure, they should be buried but everyone seems fine with their lives. It has a dark concept -- a lost young man in a world that doesn't understand him that has to make his own world out of corpses -- yet somehow it becomes innocent, candy-colored fun. Who would have thought?

Stumbling upon the 2022 horror comedy "The Loneliest Boy in the World" by random chance, reading the synopsis and realizing that this was a horror comedy with zombies, then of course I had to sit down and watch the movie immediately. Granted, I hadn't heard about this movie from writer Piers Ashworth, Emilio Estevez and Brad Wyman prior to actually sitting down to watch it, so I didn't know what to expect, nor did I know what I was in for. But still, it being a horror comedy with zombies, it had potential for sure. The storyline told in "The Loneliest Boy in the World" was not overly great. Sure, the movie was watchable, though this is hardly an outstanding or memorable zombie horror comedy. And while I managed to sit through the entire movie, then I doubt that I will ever return to watch it again, simply because the storyline was too plain and mundane. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, though I think that the actors and actresses did good enough jobs with the severe limitations imposed on them by an inferior script, plot and character gallery. Visually then "The Loneliest Boy in the World" was actually good. I liked the special effects, and they were definitely fair for a horror comedy of this caliber. All in all, then my rating of director Martin Owen's 2022 horror comedy "The Loneliest Boy in the World" lands on a four out of ten stars.

After the death of his mother, a lonely teen is taken unable to move on is forced to make friends which allows him to dig up recently-deceased corpses to use as a family but the more he spends with them the more he tries to keep them safe the family of corpses allows him a different life than he wanted. This was a rather solid effort if suffers somewhat as a genre outing. The film has an entirely effective cheesy atmosphere throughout here that becomes its greatest asset, working a highly effective tone here with the spot-on satire on old-school corny tone at the sight of everything happening here. That comes from the flashbacks to the entirely goofy idea of the creatures coming to life for a fantasy-based series of encounters that maintain a highly enjoyable tone that carries on throughout here. All of the various whimsical situations throughout the second half come off quite nicely as it weaves through the secondary storyline involving the need for a person's independence and sense of family that this one carries throughout here. For all of this, though, the film does stumble as a genuine genre effort as the whole thing flies in the face of more traditional zombie fare. Rather than engage in the more expected flesh-ripping and entrail-munching that would be expected in these kinds of films, the zombies are treated more as a ghostly imaginary friend role that is constantly undecided whether or not others can see them. Despite his insistance that they're living with him and that they're constantly around him, this one tends to go back-and-forth as to their existence since there's nothing about how they come back to life as he just finds them awake one morning with no hint as to how they reanimated. It comes off as the one main flaw with this one, however, so it's not a completely crippling factor as those who can buy the whimsical setup will have a lot to like with this one. Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.

This was such a waste! It had potential but they blew it! Even the bullies seemed forced. I really liked the lead actor and they had that guy from the popular After films but was underutilized. The movie is described as a modern fairytale with zombies. I thought it resembled more of a bad dream. Not even a single musical number or duet. Max Harwood was the lead in the musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie. They could have just had Oliver be an out and about gay boi singing to the heavens then finally gets his prayers answered with a new zombie friend. Then with the power of true love the yucky zombie turns into a dashing loaded prince. Mitch introduces Oliver to his loving and supportive folks and they live happily ever after! How's that for fairytale? Oliver first tries to find a friend then ends up getting a best friend, a boyfriend and a new modern family. Now before you can say that's ridiculous! Oliver wakes up and he's back in the asylum and it was all just a dream. But then a very cute male nurse arrives with his meds and it's Mitch! Smile! You have the fantasy mixed with reality and the possibilities are endless. They should have just focused solely on these two instead of those silly side characters and saved a whole lotta money. Young girls are gonna wanna see their beloved bad boy Hardin Scott not a disgusting zombie!

When I watched the trailer, I thought that this is a horror comedy about post zombie apocalyptic story. But as it turns out, it's not. It's very different from my initial impression. As someone who holds the importance of principle, I have to point out that this movie doesn't have any. It didn't explain how things were the way they were in it. Like how a group of corpses suddenly got reanimated. Was it the magic of Halloween (Samhain, the Wiccan's New Year) or was it a curse? Anything would suffice. But there was no explanation of how the corpses can come back to life. It's kinda crucial, if you ask me. Cause otherwise people can start making movies without rules, like pigs can fly or kitchen utensils can move by themselves. It's pure chaos and utter non sense. I should've given this movie 4 stars for this HUGE flaw. But seeing how this is a good-feel comedy, I've decided to bump it up by 2 stars.