{"id":4460,"date":"2023-10-12T14:12:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2023-10-12T14:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:25:05","slug":"oct-12th-mikey-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/?p=4460","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 12th: Mikey (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Mikey (1992)<\/div>
Directed by Dennis Dimster<\/div>
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Evil kid movies are a dime a dozen. I\u2019ve covered a few evil kid movies in the past.\u00a0 For every Omen there\u2019s at least 15 Paperboys.\u00a0 Mikey is one of those\u2026.how should I say it?\u00a0 Other movies.<\/div>
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Mikey is about a boy, that kills his foster family?\u00a0 Adoptive family?\u00a0 Idk.\u00a0 He goes and lives with a new family now and starts killing people.\u00a0 If it sounds tired, if it sounds cliche, and if it sounds simple, its because it is man.\u00a0 Nothing new here.\u00a0 It is even similar to The Stepfather, a great movie by all means.\u00a0 Brian Bonsall plays the titular Mikey.\u00a0 You probably know him from Family Ties or Blank Check.\u00a0 The cutsie kid with the funny looking haircut and teeth(pictured below).\u00a0 He\u2019s rather wooden and a prime example of 90s child acting.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Mikey takes a liking to the neighbor girl, whom of course is way older than him. He basically just wipes out any obstacles in his way to getting what he wants. Kills the boyfriend and such. Again this movie is anything but original, so basically nothing right? The effects are meh too, nothing worth mentioning. A guy gets bludgeoned with a baseball bat by Mikey and it is as laughable as you would imagine. There are lots of water based electrocutions, like why so many? Mimi Craven (wife of Wes Craven, pictured right) plays the mother. Of course she wont believe that Mikey is an evil asshole, we\u2019ve seen it all before.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The acting is made for tv levels of quality. No one shines. Brian Bonsall, like previously mentioned is a child actor. Mimi Craven is passable at best and at times so void of emotion that it is funny. Josie Bissette plays Jessie the neighbor and she\u2019s ok, and probably the best in the movie. Ashley Laurence of Hellraiser fame plays Mikey\u2019s teacher and she is also decent. We also get another Elm Street connection with Whit Hertford (Alice\u2019s unborn son in Elm Street 5) as the neighbor boy, creepy eyes and all!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The end is completely ridiculous. Mikey shows his true colors and attacks his mom. She is such a wuss that she can\u2019t fight off a 7 year old boy. They end up fighting around, she gets whacked with a hammer a few times, then they crash off the balcony. Then Ferris Bueller\u2019s dad and Kirsty from Hellraiser show up to find the mom dead and Mikey laying on top of her. Mr. Bueller makes the mistake of leaving his gun alone and Mikey empties the bullets. He meets his end by an arrow to the gut. Kirsty walks in and faces off with the little shit. Dear lord who is the \u201cfinal girl\u201d in this? You think the mom is, but she dies, now Kirst comes in and gets a slingshot ball to the face and collapses. Jessie is the only logical choice right? Mikey then turns the stove burners on, letting gas out. He goes to Jessie\u2019s house, uninvited trying to score, I can only assume. She quickly boots him. Dad comes home and doesn\u2019t notice the bodies around and the blood on everything, he\u2019s an idiot. Then the dad comes into the dining room where MIkey has everyone set at the table like the end of Happy Birthday to Me, which he throws a molotov cocktail into the house and blows it up. We get a funny miniature shot of the house exploding that was classic. Now Mikey is getting with a new family, and a new name of Josh. Ugh!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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I suppose you could categorize this under the \u201cyuppie nightmare\u201d subgenre of horror\/thrillers, along with evil little shit movies. There isn\u2019t much suspense in this and not much for rewatchability. If you really like evil kid movies, then maybe you\u2019ll enjoy this. I found it rather lame and dull. I give Mikey a D.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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beating the genre into the ground<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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