Boy Eats Girl (2005)

THING: Movie

GENRE: Horror/comedy

SYNOPSIS: A heartbroken British high school student accidentally commits suicide, causing his mother to bring him back from the dead using an ancient book. As a new zombie, he begins to infect his classmates. Hilarity ensues.

WHO WOULD LIKE THIS: Gross-out-comedy fans, or anyone who likes a lot of blowjob jokes. Probably not zombie fans, though, because there are too many liberties taken with the formula.

IT'S KINDA LIKE: 'American Pie' meets 'Shaun of the Dead.' Of course, both of these movies are 20x funnier than 'Boy Eats Girl,' but the ingredients are there: sex-crazed teenagers and slackers who don't notice their neighborhood has already become zombie-central. There were quite a few jokes lifted directly off of 'Shaun of the Dead,' which was released a year earlier.

YAY, NAY, OR MEH: Meh, almost a nay.

WHY: There were a few laughs to be had, but none of the characters stand out. The only reason I remembered some of the names was because they were repeated so often. The zombie enthusiast in me wanted to hate this movie for everything it did wrong with the zombies (except for one particularly gruesome slaughter, which disturbed and delighted me at the same time), especially with the main character, but the over-all campiness of it almost held it afloat. There were a lot of jump-scare moments, but they felt cheap, without any actual tension behind them. Unfortunately, the story is thin and the plot resolution is incredibly stupid, without resolving much of anything. The most creative thing about this movie is the title.