Mikey (film)

Mikey
DVD cover
Directed by	Dennis Dimster
Produced by	Peter Abrams Natan Zahavi Robert L. Levy
Written by	Jonathan Glassner
Starring	Brian Bonsall Ashley Laurence John Diehl Mimi Craven Whitby Hertford Lyman Ward
Music by	Tim Truman
Cinematography	Tom Jewett
Editing by	Omer Tal Natan Zahavi
Studio	Constantin Film
Distributed by	Imperial Entertainment
Release date(s)	September 23, 1992
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Mikey is a 1992 horror film directed by Dennis Dimster and starring Brian Bonsall. The film centers on the character of Mikey Holt, a young boy who is adopted by a family after his previous adoptive family dies. Rather than the darling child they expected, however, Mikey turns out to be a violent sociopath and a budding serial killer.

Plot

Every family Mikey (Brian Bonsall) lives with has a series of unexplained "accidents" and hence he's moved from home to home.

Mikey is disciplined by his foster parents for starting a fire indoors, so he responds by causing his foster sister to drown in the pool, electrocuting his foster mother while she's in the bath, and killing his foster father with a bat. Mikey avoids suspicion because he's only 9 and by telling the police that an intruder killed his foster family.

Mikey falls in love with the his best friend's older sister but as she's 15 years older than him she isn't interested in Mikey. His teacher is also investigating him because she's noticed something odd about Mikey's behaviour. In an attempt to make Jessie love him, he electrocutes David while he's in the jacuzzi. After this fails Mikey kills his foster father, his foster mother, his teacher with a slingshot and ball bearings, the school's principal and almost kills Jessie. To avoid being blamed he fakes his own death using the body of a boy the same age as him. Jessie is told by the authorities that Mikey is dead. At the end of the movie Mikey now calls himself Josh and has been adopted by another family. This new family are folk singers and he join them as a performing act and sings his own compositions, happy sounding songs trivially depicting how his other foster families met their demise. His new family seem unaware of the sinister content of his popular sing-along songs.

Cast

• Brian Bonsall as Mikey Holt
• Ashley Laurence as Shawn Gilder
• John Diehl as Neil Trenton
• Mimi Craven as Rachel Trenton
• Whitby Hertford as Ben Owens
• Lyman Ward as Mr. Jenkins
• Josie Bissett as Jessie Owens
• David Rogge as David
• Mark Venturini as Det. Jack Reynolds
• Laura Robinson as Grace Calvin

UK ban

The film was withdrawn from release in the United Kingdom following the James Bulger murder in Liverpool in 1993. The decision was made by the BBFC which refused to issue it with a UK release certificate in 1996. Unlike other banned films that have since been reclassified and released, this film remains prohibited in the UK.^[1]

References

1. ^ BANNED: The most controversial films - Mikey

External links

• Mikey at the Internet Movie Database
• BANNED: The most controversial films - Mikey The Independent