The Paperboy (1994)

Why so much hype?

best movie i've ever seen.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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

First, from the looks of things this movie was an actual theater release which is a bit surprising. It looks and feels like a made for television movie, when I first saw it on USA network I thought it was a movie they made. Second, why is it listed as a horror movie? It is not very horrific at all. It is a rather mild thriller about a crazy paper boy who becomes really attached to this mother and daughter, so much so that he does everything in his power to make them like him. If anyone tries to warn the mother, then he deals with them. Here is a movie where you just want to beat the snot out of the stalker character; it drives you crazy at what he gets away with. It also makes me glad I don't have a person that likes me that much. Sure some days I wish a gal would form some sort of crush on me, but then you see some of the possible results of such an unhealthy obsession. All in all though this movie is not good, and it is not bad. It is just a mediocre thriller worth a look see if you see it on the television.

I watched the movie just today and I thought it was more hilarious than it was scary or a thriller. I don't know anyone who's actually found that movie scary, so obviously it isn't. I think I was probably in an energetic movie since I laughed the whole time. Just at the way Johny reacted to things.The cool thing about this movie about how Johny (Marc Marut) is very devilish and too obsessed, but most good movies aren't realistic at all. Hes a young kid around the age of 12-15 who has an obsession for a woman and his obsession goes a little too far causing people to die since they get in the way. I suspected that kid to be evil since he has some sort of innocent, yet a smart-a** side to him and its really disturbing. Many people will say it was a tasteless, corny and pretty lame movie, but the young actor couldn't have played his part better. He was really convincing!I'm not going to give a summary/ending or the whole point of the movie since thats a surprise for everyone else and I'm no good at it. I think the young actor plays a purfect part in it.

Sigh...memories of long summer days in which my sister and I did little more than watch the USA network. While doing so we tripped over this pathetic little blunder of a movie, and have since peppered our conversations with comments such as "God hates stupid children!" and "Hey Peaches, want some ribs?"Characters are as follows: Johnny McFarley, the homicidal paperboy, Melissa, the completely oblivious object of his desire, and Cammie, Melissa's brainless little girl. There is also the witchy old woman from down the street, who spends about half of her scenes cackling, "He's eeeeevil!" in reference to Johnny.In short, the movie is dumb. It's contrived. No one I've talked to has ever seen it, which is a pity because it's so humorously bad.