Loneliest Boy in the World, The

[Available Dec. 20 on DVD and Blu-ray™.] After his mother (Carol Anne Watts) is tragically electrocuted in a swimming pool and then impaled with a garden gnome in 1987 in Martin Owen's captivating, wacky, coming-of-age, poignant, intermittently funny, satirical, 90-minute horror spoof, her lonely, bullied, Alf-loving, socially-inept, 18-year-old son (Max Harwood), who is desperate for friendship and has two caring social workers (Ashley Benson and Evan Ross) worried about him, digs up corpses (Susan Wokoma, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Zenobia Williams, and Ben Miller) from the cemetery who move into his house and become his flesh-pealing, life-affirming, friendly zombie family.
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