Boy Kills World

Boy Kills World centres on a deaf and mute young man whose family is destroyed by the ruling Van Der Koy dynasty, a corrupt clan that stages an annual public execution of its opponents. Left without hearing or speech, Boy flees into the jungle, where a mysterious shaman trains him in martial arts and teaches him to suppress his vivid childhood imagination. Years later, now an adult fighter, he witnesses another massacre and abandons restraint, setting out to take revenge on the regime's matriarch and joining a group of resistance fighters. An inner voice narrates his thoughts along the way, and the ghost of his rebellious younger sister keeps challenging him.

Moritz Mohr directs this dystopian action thriller from a screenplay by Arend Remmers and Tyler Burton Smith, with Sam Raimi, Roy Lee and Stuart Manashil producing. Bill Skarsgård plays Boy, with H. Jon Benjamin supplying his inner voice. The cast also includes Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Brett Gelman, Sharlto Copley and Yayan Ruhian. It was shot in the United States and South Africa.

The film was released in April 2024 and runs 111 minutes. Made for roughly 18 million dollars, it returned about 3 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.4 from 40,000 votes and on TMDB 6.7 from 884 votes, while a critics' rating of 5.6 from 170 reviews sits below both audience scores.