The kind of movie that makes you wish you could rinse your brain in bleach, to wash all traces of it from your memory.
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10/05/07
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The Girl Next Door (2007)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:11
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.5/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 19, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Jack Ketchum's disturbing novel moves to the screen with this horror film. A young boy develops a crush on his new neighbor, but he soon realizes that she is being tortured by the woman who was... [More]
Starring: Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche, Blanche Baker, William Atherton
Director: Gregory M. Wilson
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Reviews for The Girl Next Door
1 - 16 (sorted by rotten rating)
Beneath the 1950’s seemingly placid exterior of Ozzie and Harriet normalcy, there were -- brace yourself! -- sinister undercurrents at work.
10/16/07
The film is stuck with an utterly quotidian screenplay that never truly provokes the viewer.
10/03/07
Like some demented cross between a Norman Rockwell painting and an Eli Roth film.
10/03/07
There's little reason to see the movie. Unless, of course, you get off on watching the sexual exploitation of underage girls.
10/05/07
Words simply don't do it justice; it's a masterpiece, and I'll never be able to see it again...
12/04/07
Not as bloody as 'Hotel 2,' but because we know that the horrific events really happened, 'The Girl Next Door' is at least as scary.
09/27/07
L'expérience que nous propose Wilson se veut si intense et le malaise qui s'en suit si profond qu'il serait surprenant que plusieurs désirent la vivre une seconde fois
10/03/07
A super-realistic horror flick that's so relentlessly-disturbing it's likely to trigger debate as to whether the filmmaker might have left too little to the imagination.
10/16/07
If you are easily disturbed, you should not watch this movie.
06/25/08
Based on Jack Ketchum's deeply disturbing novel, Gregory Wilson's film explores the dark bond between an embittered housewife and a group of apparently ordinary suburban teenagers that leads to torture and murder.
10/05/07
The Girl Next Door is the best horror film of 2007
01/14/08
To say the film is disconcerting is an understatement.
10/05/07
Much more than just your basic sadistic horror thriller, The Girl Next Door redefines the notion of guilty pleasure as raw and potent allegory, and corrective to the US culture of conformist collective complicity.
09/29/07
It's a dark, harsh and sometimes powerfully unpleasant film, but it's also one that's made with a lot of care and craftsmanship.
10/07/07
The film is quite disturbing and some scenes are difficult to watch.
07/16/07
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