Not long after watching Mikey & Daddy's Girl, I heard about this film, which just like the films mentioned, is a child psycho killer film!This time it's in the form of a 12 year old boy who kills Melissa's mum by smothering her with a plastic bag in order for her & her daughter to come back & move in! The film doesn't waste much time in story-line or kills though just like Mikey & Daddy's girl they were very few, & not much different or half as imaginative but were decent enough!Like I said, the film didn't waste time & within a minute & a half into the film the first kill ensues, & was abit more quicker than Mikey for the open death(s). Basically throughout the film the boy, named Johnny Mcfarley, gets involved with the lives of Melissa & her daughter Cammie, but the happiness quickly diminishes when they begin to see a very disturbed side to the smiley friendly face of Johnny! This is after a small misunderstanding assuming that he , Melissa & Cammie would have a barbecue dinner together, but instead Melissa is going out on date with her boyfriend Brian & has Brenda, his nemesis to babysit! He increasingly gets attached to the pair & does anything he can to make sure they are a family despite their being no relations except friends! He also gets annoyed when Brenda grasses on him & he ends up nearly killing her! The deaths were abit poor & too far apart for my tastes. There was lack of blood too, though there was some present in the film, it just wasn't good enough for me! The films got abit boring at parts but was OK & had a sinister feel to it!The ending was great too, Johnny gets arrested after nearly killing Melissa's boyfriend Brian by burning him alive while he was unconscious! Though he got away in the nick of time! The end part looked as though it would end where Melissa gets the blame as she had the pick axe in her hand after a struggle with Johnny who tries to pin the murder on her until Brian steps out & shows him up & Johnny gets put in a police car! Great ending! Not clichéd! Just great!I found the film to be OK, nothing to dissimilar to Mikey or Daddy's Girl! Though it lacked body count & blood! Overall a decent enough film! 6/10

The Paper Boy starts with 12 year old psycho paper boy Johnny McFarley (Marc Marut) suffocating his elderly neighbour Mrs. Thorpe with a plastic bag. Mrs. Thorpe's daughter Melissa (Alexandra Paul) & her young daughter Cammie (Brigid Tierney) fly in from Boston to attend the funeral, however no sooner has Melissa arrived at her Mother's house Johnny is trying to do things for her. At first Melissa just thinks that Johnny is a nice lad who comes round to play with Cammie but a darker side to Johnny emerges, Johnny is absolutely infatuated with Melissa & hides a two way baby monitor device in her house to listen in on every word Melissa says. Johnny turns his closet into a shrine dedicated to Melissa crammed full with photo's of her. Johnny buys her & Cammie expensive things, he is always hanging around, some of the things he says are unsettling, he becomes upset easily when Melissa ignores him & he will do anything to try & make her happy. All Johnny wants is a family, a Mother, someone to love him & he goes to murderous lengths to ensure Melissa & Cammie are that family he's looking for...This Canadian production (there's a surprise, not!) was directed by Douglas Jackson & is surely more than worth the description of crap. Much more a psychological thriller than straight horror the script by David E. Peckinpah has a ridiculous central premise, a homicidal emotionally messed up paper boy who turns to murder to get his own way. For starters I simply couldn't believe that someone thought making a film about a killer paper boy was a sensible idea! Us horror fans have had to put up with a lot, killer dentists, killer ice-cream men, mutant killer snowmen, killer insects & animals of all shapes, sizes & descriptions, killer aliens, killer ghosts, killer toys & dolls, killer cars, trucks & ships, killer Leprechaun's, killer plants, killer waxworks & a whole host of other bizarre homicidal maniacs besides but a killer paper boy? Surely that's stretching things just that bit too far? I mean the idea of a killer paper boy hardly sends shivers down my spine! The film is as dull as dishwater, it's slow & boring, it's predictable, the character's are bland & forgettable & as a whole the film did nothing for me whatsoever. I guess I just hated the wretched thing, plain & simple.Director Jackson does nothing to try & liven the tedium up, The Paper Boy is bland, forgettable & uninspired stuff throughout. There is zero tension, atmosphere or scares & the story is very pedestrian & obvious. In fact I couldn't make it through the thing in one sitting, I watched the first 50 odd minutes a couple of days ago & then since I'm such a masochist I forced myself to watch the rest of it yesterday, never let it be said I don't give a film a chance! Forget about any gore, violence or nudity because there ain't none.Technically The Paper Boy has that made-for-TV cheapness written all over it & I'm surprised it wasn't, I can barely remember a single shot from the thing. Surprisingly Alexandra Paul was in the middle of her Baywatch (1989 - 2001) stint when she made The Paper Boy & you thought Pamela Anderson made a bad career decision with Barb Wire (1996) just wait until you this this cinematic train wreck! To her credit though she is pretty good looking. I absolutely hated Marut, I thought he was awful as he was a whiny annoying pain to watch & I just wanted to grab him & give him a good slap. There certainly wasn't anything sinister or scary about his character which has to be his fault, right?The Paper Boy was crap, it's as simple & straight forward as that. I found no entertainment value here whatsoever & I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, probably one to avoid.

This movie is so stupid it's funny. It's like a nineties version of "The Bad Seed". Johnny becomes infatuated with his hot new neighbor, Alexandra Paul, but not in a sexual way...he wants to become part of her family, together with her daughter. Poor Johnny, caught in that awkward age between sexual awakening and wanting to belong, he doesn't even realize how hot Alexandra is, he just wants to live in the same house with her and move away from his milquetoast father. Alexandra comes home one day to find Johnny in her kitchen, making apple pie. "We can have it a la mode," he smiles and says to the startled Alexandra and her daughter. "That means 'with ice cream'." You have to see it to believe it, this movie is filled with stupid scenes like this. An old woman meddles in Johnny's affairs and pays the price: he literally scares her to death, in a scene reminiscent of the magic-act scene in the movie "The Other". He even bumps off his dad, who wants to move them to California. This show pops up on USA once in a while, check it out, it's a riot.

i saw this movie as a child and i don't have very fond memories of it- that is, it really scared me. i'm sure if i watched it again now that i'm older i wouldn't feel so creeped out about it. i remember quite a few scenes vividly- the main character is a twisted boy who kills without regard but whom nevertheless forms a strange bond with a younger girl next door. as i recall, people start to catch on to what he's about and the ending is a real bloodbath.this movie isn't for the faint of heart, but if you like stories about psycho killers and gruesome murders, then by all means, rent this movie, the paperboy won't disappoint you.