The Girl Next Door (2007)
Genre: Drama / Horror
Duration: 91 minuten
Alternative title: Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door
Country:
United States
Directed by: Gregory Wilson
Stars: Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche and Blanche Baker
IMDb score:
6,4 (31.852)
Releasedate: 19 July 2007
The Girl Next Door plot
"In this town, murder became the neighborhood game."
After their parents died in an accident, sisters Meg and Susan are taken into the home of their Aunt Ruth and her three sons. Ruth wants to discipline the girls by punishing them severely. Ultimately, the oldest girl, Meg, is held and tortured in the basement by Ruth and her sons. The other children in the neighborhood will also join in. Only neighbor David, who has befriended Meg, sees the seriousness of these tortures.
Actors and actresses
Meg Loughlin
David Moran
Eddie
Mrs. Moran
Mr. Moran
Willie Chandler Jr.
Adult David Moran
Ruth Chandler
Homeless Man Hit By Car
Donny Chandler
Reviews & comments
leatherhead
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- 3556 messages
- 1813 votes
Read somewhere that people found this more intense and shocking than Martyrs. What a joke.
The film started out somewhat promising. The build-up was quite nice and although the acting of the children was not too good, Baker did her role very well. Her monologues to her children were also quite convincing at times.
Then the second part, where the film simply fails miserably. Do include themes such as rape and female circumcision in your film, but then you are too cowardly to explicitly portray them. Strange, for a film like this, to make such brave concessions. Ensures that the shock level is just negligible as far as I'm concerned. Then there is the end, perhaps an even bigger downer. Sentimental posturing (terrible soundtrack), which only undermines the film even more.
No, there are really plenty of movies that do this much, much better and more impressive, often without even containing all kinds of dirty themes. Next time a little less obedient and a little more modest please, because this is just a pathetic display. 1.5* for the role of Baker and the promising start.
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scorsese
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- 13232 messages
- 11124 votes
Good film about two sisters who come to live with their aunt and nephews after the death of their parents. A film that shows the cruelty of man in all its horror. The psychological and later also physical torture result in a number of uncomfortable scenes. Certainly penetrating, but not equally believable everywhere.
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Collins
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- 7346 messages
- 4345 votes
The film is based on an event in 1965. Sylvia Likens and her sister were severely humiliated and abused by the foster mother, her children and neighbours, in the foster family where they were placed. How an inhumane example of murderous group dynamics resulted in a progressive erosion of the human dignity of the victims. Mind blow.
The film is also astonishing. The horrific event is no more than a template on which to hang a sadistic and banal film. Instead of a film that conducts dramatic and psychological research into the character's condition, tries to explain something, lets the perpetrators and victims speak, the viewer is confronted with a flat exhibition of sadistic suffering. The Girl Next Door smacks of exploitation cinema.
Nice for the enthusiasts. I thought it was a pointless movie.
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