The Loneliest Boy in the World

Eeww. Just ...eww.

This horror comedy is way too heavy on the gross. It emphasizes the reality of dead bodies, beginning with the mother's "accident" and goes too far when Oliver's new family of dead bodies come to life. He can't imagine them being fun or clever or not puking up every single thing they eat, talking while vomiting. That's when I had to turn it off.

Nothing about Oliver is compelling, anyway, he's just weird and sad and obviously belongs in a mental hospital. There's also something sad about him making friends with corpses he dug up from the grave, that gives creepy vibes in the worst possible way. Not a fun way or a spooky way, but like a "omg that's a dead body you freaking weirdo."

Seems like some indie film maker was trying to push the envelope just to be an edgelord, or has some necrophiliac tendencies. Because I'm lost on how a normal person could find this funny or charming.

I enjoyed this movie and found the premise quite unique and very entertaining. The title character was done quite well and combined a pleasant personality with a somewhat disturbing and quirky side that was amusing.

The entire cast did an excellent job and played it perfectly...again pleasant and yet that odd quirkiness that made them each very interesting!

Now for the MAJOR flaw. The movies was filmed in Wales with an all British cast, but set somewhere in the United States and with a story line purporting to be a young man trying to live the American dream, so what was the point of setting it in America?

That fact seemed pointless and detracted from the story. The thinly veiled British accents were quite apparent and to be honest, ANNOYING distracting. Everything was overtly British while pretending to be American?

No pun intended - it's all in the family and all that. Of course you have to suspend your disbelief with this one. While it seems to be based in reality, it really goes off the rails quite quickly. Try to see this as a fairy tale of sorts. A quite violent one - or at least brutal. Nothing for the sensitive souls for sure.

Good effects and a crazy story. Maybe you identify with the loneliness of the main character (well if you can call it that - he is not "alone" - or is he?) - but of course no one should try anything that is shown is tried at home. If you like weird stuff, you will feel right at home (no pun intended once again). This also has a killer poster art ... just saying.

The Loneliest Boy in the World is a unique story about a teenage boy who lost his mother in what he calls and accident. After being told to find friends, which is not an easy task for him, he begins to make his own by digging up corpses from recently passed people. He creates his own family of dead bodies in his house. But one day he wakes up to find them more alive than ever...

The movie is colorful and stylish, the actors do a good job portraying their characters, however this movie is riddled with clichés and plot holes. There are several things that are not adding up and the movie feels like it is unsure what it wants to be. It plays out like a kid's movie with horror aspects but has an R-rating and I think the movie should have decided for either one of those. It could have been much darker and more horrifying with more absurd and crazy storytelling, but it chooses to be a mixture and therefore be rather forgettable. [5,1/10]

Is just around the corner, filled with dead and creepy skeltonized figures wherever you turn around, and its surtainly the season to be jolly if you like horror comedies like the one i review here, or the more smashier of the matter.

This is all happening in the glorious 80's, when the music whamed you and still do, a lonely boy has to make a friendship or go to the house of insane...

well he makes friends for sure, quite a neckrofilia love story it is, with a sharp script and a naive style of acting that may feel by far gotten by the most horristic part of the audience, but comedywise and as a decent look at the halloween traditions made in the u.s.a. It really follows the thick red line, with pinkish backgrounds and superstyled set decorations and and choice of locations is superbly done.

My acclaim though goes to the makeup and specialeffects departments, the yokes made arent the most advanced nor costliest in the movie business but they work. The script is filled with dead earnest irony and picrasy, well hidden in the acts and words performed by a rather pictorial whacked out acting crew. Playing dead aint easy and they know the acts of stilleben, and doing the most hilarious acts to countermeassure your angsts and other frights in life...

a well made film, perfect playtime, and wellmade and chosen score. The grumpy old man wouldve died from laughter if seen back in the eighties, but it still have that tremendous power to make me laugh (with my spouce) today too. A recommend...