This early 90's chiller is about a 5 (!) year old serial killer. Well, that's disturbing. He murders people without a visible change in his facial expressions. I'd say he's gifted. Only Michael Myers was able to pull that off so far. Although the basic subject is original, the whole movie is rather average. I'd even say passable and not recommended. The young Mikey has a wrong way to deal with his emotions. After being punished by his parents he doesn't obey them...he slaughters them !! Because of his very young age, he isn't suspected of course so the police closes up the case as a robbery with deceased victims. Mikey is adopted by a new family and it all starts out fine. He especially is keen on his new neighbor girl played by Jodie Bisset (the blond chick from "Melrose Place") One problem : she's about 15 years older than he is so he can't handle the fact she has a boyfriend. Overwhelmed by hate, the little psychopath inside Mikey comes alive again... I didn't regret watching it but still I have the feeling something better could have been done with it. Mikey is a standard thriller with the right amount of suspense, nudity and humor but it could have been a lot more if you ask me. I loved seeing Ashley Laurence acting again,though. She was the leading actress in my favorite film Hellraiser and here, in Mikey, she plays the teacher who first starts to think there's something wrong with the little brat. Mikey is a good film to watch if nothing better appears on TV or if you've seen everything else in the videostore already. Nothing more, nothing less.

Following the James Bulger murder in Liverpool in 1993, Mikey was banned from the UK. Unlike plenty of other movies that have been since re-released (like, for example, our three different Video Nasties articles - follow the links for 1, 2 and 3),this movie is not allowed to play across the pond.

Mikey (Brian Bonsall, who was Andy Keaton on Family Ties) starts the film off by drowning his sister Beth and throwing a hairdryer into the bathtub while his foster mother Grace is just trying to let Calgon take her away. If you're like, "Mikey, top that!" he soon answers by tripping his foster dad with marbles and beating his brains out with a bat while videotaping the murder. Oh Mikey - you've won me over before the credits even ran!

He gets a new family and plenty of friendly victims, which include Josie Bisset from Hitcher In the Dark as a 15-year-old girl who he falls for and Ashley Laurence from Hellraiser as a teacher who pays the price for caring about Mikey's emotions. Lyman Ward - Ferris Bueller's dad - and Mimi Craven - second wife of Wes - appear, along with Mark Venturini, Suicide from Return of the Living Dead.

If you've ever yearned to see a pre-pubescent child annihilate people with slingshots, crossbows and shoving them through rails and off the second floor of a house - not to mention Molotov cocktails - then you should pretty much watch this one.

I heard about this film when going through a list of banned films. This film was banned in the UK because of the James Bulger case & still today. Though I caught this one on YouTube. The film didn't have much of a story to it but it was pretty dark & evil in most places!

The film doesn't waste much time & pretty much gets stuck in with 3 kills of his foster parents in the space of 7 minutes approximately! The kills are pretty disturbing! Especially the one where he kills the youngest daughter Beth, where he wobbles the diving board until she falls in & drowns. Although you don't see this, the sound of the splashing stopping suddenly implies that she died! I thought this was pretty evil & twisted! Then the mum who he plainly just electrocutes with a hairdryer whiles she's taking a bath! Then the father who comes home & sees his dead daughter lying lifeless in the pool & swiftly in shock, he slips on the marbles that Mikey laid out & he smashes through the door only for Mikey to brutally bludgeon him with a steel bat! This was a bloody scene! Nasty!

Police arrive & Mikey tells them it was a man who done it. They believe him & he gets adopted by another family! Uh Oh!

Then for the space of 40 minutes no deaths occur, which now would be bad considering this film is a horror, but he bonds well with the new foster parents hes been put with! He crushes on the next door neighbours daughter, Jessie & gets jealous when he sees her & with her boyfriend. He then kills him off after a failed attempt at getting her to dislike him by killing Jessie's cat, Rosie! Evil or what! He begins to worry the teacher at his school (whose friends with his foster mum) when he draws depraved pictures with blood in them & self harms himself at school. His teacher then begins to start digging deeper into his Mikey's past & find out about the murders of his previous family. It's only then after killing Jessie's boyfriend off (when Mikey embraces her) that she suspects that he killed him. His foster mum also suspects this after an incident & a slight death threat involving electrocution!

Mikey then starts to kill off the rest of the family! His step mum with a hammer & slitting her throat via a fall through the balcony. His gym teacher with a bow & arrow & his mum friend teacher with a slingshot! This is the point of the film which got crazy! He also at one point terrorizes Jessie & nearly kills her!

Then to top it off he blows up the house with his stepfather inside (not before using the same fashion of "Hi dad!" he did with his previous father) Then afterwards Mikey gets adopted by new parents & calls himself Josh & well...the whole thing starts all over again! Creepy...!

The film was pretty good & had a level of darkness & sheer creepiness about the kid who looked & was pure evil! The blood was alright in this fill as were the kills, though some could've been abit better! Story was abit simple, though it's not explained why Mikey was evil in the first place! But it was overall a good film with a twisted premise!

Overall, it was a good film! But it lacked a few things here & there! But it was a decent film! I recommend it to all Horror fans!