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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

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sadistic torture and sexual abuse, nudity, language and strong sexual dialogue - all involving children.

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

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... 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 entrusted with her care. [More]

Starring: Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche, Blanche Baker, William Atherton

Starring: Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche, Blanche Baker, William Atherton, Grant Show

Director: Gregory M. Wilson

Director: Gregory M. Wilson
Screenwriter: Daniel Farrands, Philip Nutman
Producer: Andrew van den Houten, William M. Miller
Composer: Ryan Shore
Studio: Moderncine

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If you are easily disturbed, you should not watch this movie.

Full Review Source: ESplatter | comment Comment
06/25/08
Lucius Gore
Lucius Gore
ESplatter

The Girl Next Door is the best horror film of 2007

Full Review Source: Mike Bracken's Horror Films | comment Comment
01/14/08
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken's Horror Films

Words simply don't do it justice; it's a masterpiece, and I'll never be able to see it again...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
12/04/07
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Beneath the 1950’s seemingly placid exterior of Ozzie and Harriet normalcy, there were -- brace yourself! -- sinister undercurrents at work.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
10/16/07
Nick Pinkerton
Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice
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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.

Full Review Source: Leader Newspapers, New Jersey | comment Comment
10/16/07
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
Leader Newspapers, New Jersey

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.

Full Review Source: FEARnet | comment Comment
10/07/07
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
FEARnet

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.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
10/05/07
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

To say the film is disconcerting is an understatement.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
10/05/07
Pam Grady
Pam Grady
Reel.com

There's little reason to see the movie. Unless, of course, you get off on watching the sexual exploitation of underage girls.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment 4 Comments
10/05/07
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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The kind of movie that makes you wish you could rinse your brain in bleach, to wash all traces of it from your memory.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
10/05/07
Neil Genzlinger
Neil Genzlinger
New York Times
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Like some demented cross between a Norman Rockwell painting and an Eli Roth film.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
10/03/07
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine

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

Full Review Source: Panorama | comment Comment
10/03/07
Jean-François Vandeuren
Jean-François Vandeuren
Panorama

The film is stuck with an utterly quotidian screenplay that never truly provokes the viewer.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
10/03/07
Phil Hall
Phil Hall
Film Threat

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.

Full Review Source: WBAI Web Radio | comment Comment
09/29/07
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
WBAI Web Radio

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.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
09/27/07
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

The film is quite disturbing and some scenes are difficult to watch.

Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews | comment Comment
07/16/07
Ted Murphy
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