geretyc When I first saw this movie I like many people never really heard of it. Well their is a reason its not exactly brilliant or known for academy award acting. Its really not scary to adult I would say as it is somewhat predictable. With that being said its still a good film depending on what you would want out of it. Don't expect a horror film but rather expect huge laughs about a unraveling of a bratty,nerdy and quite weird neighborhood kid. Their is a lot to laugh at when its clear that the horror theme isn't even coming close with a over so trying character. It all starts when the boy notices the new family across the street and decides to meet them. LOVE at first sight. He becomes hooked and starts visiting on the daily. He grows increasingly stranger by the day and starts taking out whoever is in his way. The boys father is no help while its pretty apparent how he spoils him with his guilt about divorcing his mother. The movie is good not great. I would say see this to the viewer who like the laugh at unique humor when its not so easy to see.

Johnurry64 I love this movie ever since I saw it on USA. However, it is out of print now & I'm hoping it will come back one day. The guy who played Johnny was the creepiest kid I've ever seen in a horror movie. Alexandra Paul was great as well. The girl who was her daughter though...well, stay away from acting, kid. Marc Marut's fits of rage were very, very believable in my opinion. This movie is a very good horror movie that I will recommend to anyone looking for a scare. I just hope I get to own this movie someday. This movie really isn't as bad as people think it is (at least in my opinion.) If you want to get a great scary thriller, get a subscription to The Paperboy!

tocotuffs2 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.

Aaron1375 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.