Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door

Pros: Great cast, great script, great direction.
Cons: Very intense and disturbing.

If I were a quote-whore film critic, I’d undoubtedly start talking about the cinematic adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s novel The Girl Next Door as the “feel bad movie of the year”. Not since Gaspar Noe’s soul-crushing Irreversible ...

Pros: Looks good, Manche is a good lead.
Cons: Auffarth is awful, lacks emotion and "teeth," supposed to be disturbing but isn't...

I've never been shy about admitting to enjoying films and books with very dark themes. I love reading nasty, disgusting, and amoral horror. I also can't help but enjoy similar things in movies. A few weeks back I read The Girl Next Door by Jack ...

Pros: Fine performance from Blythe Auffarth
Cons: Dialogue, acting from remaining cast

the plotDavid Moran, a middle-aged man receives a crude painting in the mail, and the sight of it immediately takes hold of his memories and forces him to think upon an event in his life that he wishes he could ...

Pros: extremely disturbing but true account, Baker was terrifying
Cons: ...

Today I had the unfortunate experience of watching The Girl Next Door which was adapted to screen by Daniel Farrands & Philip Nutman from the book by Jack Ketchum. This is a surrealistic take on a coming of age movie like Stand By Me ...

Pros: Lead actor Manche does a nice job, cinematography has moments
Cons: Direction, dialog, acting, lack of conclusion, bookend effect that adds nothing, character depth, motivation

When I first heard someone mention "The Girl Next Door," I mistakenly thought of the somewhat amusing "Risky Business" clone and Elisha Cuthbert vehicle of the same name. Now that I've seen this version, I sort of wish I'd remained mistaken. ...

Pros: Acting.
Very creepy.
True to story.
Cons: Ending.
Characters too one dimensinal.

WARNING, contains spoilers. Who is worse; the abuser who uses their position of power to torture and maim innocent people, or the person who sits idly by and allows the abuse to continue? How can I possibly review a movie like The Girl ...

Pros: Gut wrenching horror.
Cons: Not for youngsters at all.

It seems that a large number of movie goers are fans of the horror genre. Theatres fill when the exploits of Michael Meyers, Leatherface or Jason Vorhees arrive. These movies are all known as horror films, but in fact they offer more fantasy than actual ...