Boy Kills World

2023
R
1h 51m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

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A fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination an... Read allA fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.A fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

35K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,730

173

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

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Official Red Band Trailer

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Official Trailer

Boy Kills World: Welcome To The Resistance

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Boy Kills World: Fight

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Boy Kills World: Culling Intro

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Storyline

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Trivia
A previous version of this film had Bill Skarsgard providing his own voiceover for his character in the style of a Mortal Kombat announcer before H. Jon Benjamin was cast for the final version; the trailer featuring Skarsgard's voiceover has mostly been scrubbed from the internet. In the original concept trailer, Boy's inner voice is taken from a cigarette commercial, with a voice similar to Sam Elliott's.

Goofs
After Hilda arrives at the culling party, the downward total shot at 44:15 with Boy and Mina on the landing has exactly the same number and arrangement of macarons on the two plates between them as the shot from the same angle a minute earlier (43:27), even though Boy has in the meantime stuffed himself with macarons taken from those plates.

Quotes
Gideon Van Der Koy: Of course, if someone takes a big steamy shit in the sink, I'll stop doing the dishes.

Crazy credits
After the credits there is an extra scene with the brother and sister sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast cereal.

Connections
Featured in The 7PM Project: Episode dated 3 May 2024 (2024)

Soundtracks
No Friends
Written by Leon Michels, Homer Steinweiss, Nick Movshon, Paul Castelluzzo
Performed by El Michels Affair

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Featured review

7/10

I hate to compare, but here I am comparing.

Here we are in 2024 with another revenge film. I had just seen Monkey Man over a month ago, a revenge film which I also enjoyed.

Boy Kills World was already on my radar, before watching Monkey Man, but I didn't think I would be in a situation where I would be comparing the two. Until now, after watching Boy Kills World.

Without spoilers, both men go through a similar journey of a traumatic event happening in their childhood. With Monkey Man being more of a drama and Boy Kills World being more of a comedy.

However, I will say Boy Kills World has a more creative narrative structure and stronger choreography than Monkey Man. It also has replay value, I will definitely watch Boy Kills World again, much sooner than revisiting Monkey Man.