Neighbor
Neighbor
| 28 July 2009 (USA)
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A mysterious new girl arrives in posh suburban neighborhood and quickly sets out to terrorize the town. As she starts breaking into homes and torturing the occupants, they begin to realize that she isn't just another girl next door.

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jmdanley

This film is nothing but 90 minutes of a woman torturing people, especially one man... it would be merciful to the viewer if she had just killed him. And certainly more interesting...WHY would someone make a film like this? What's worse is why would I watch? Well, by the time we got to the drill being used, I sat with my hands over my eyes, not wanting to see any more of the gore. And what was with all the "flashbacks" or false memories? Was it intended to scare the viewer or confuse the viewer? The writer/director certainly is in love with his work... but lacks the respect to his audience to tell a decent story.

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ArchieIsCool

This film is about a woman who seems to get into peoples homes tortures and kills them and then walks away!America Olivo plays her very well a person who can calmly make a cup of coffee and then go and torture someone with no conscience at all.It starts in a house where shes dancing around the kitchen and then upstairs are the two occupants tied up and tortured, the man is still alive but his wife has died, America then puts a tap into his chest and turns it on making him bleed to death yuck!As she leaves she hears a child crying and goes in I was worried because I did not want to see any horror towards a child but we do not see it thank god.Next we see three male friends talking about their music and from there America gets one of them in his own home and tortures him quite graphically, if you like gore and blood this is for you she seems to relish hurting him. Then his mate comes round hears screaming rushes down into the basement (where shes doing the torturing) and sees what she has done a fight erupts and the mate pours acid on her face and saves his mate, or does he because here is where it went a bit weird the tortured man is now healed but having flashbacks and seeing the woman wherever he goes, but then hes back in the chair still tortured and his girlfriend is next to get the torture treatment and dies from it.The mate who saved him initially turns up and gets set alight and killed! Upstairs his other mate arrives and America gives him a drink shes made a cocktail of weedkiller! so he dies, keep up, now for the finale she strangles the first man who she has been torturing and leaves, a scene where all the dead are in the basement and then the one who drank weedkiller wakes up and it goes dark and he screams!I enjoyed it though intense and gory in places but did not get the scenes where hes better and seeing things maybe while tortured he had visions I do not know. Also in her killing spree she kills a old lady with her pills and a woman by electrocuting her in her bath.How does she get into all these homes? does everyone leave their doors unlocked lol

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moodyhathoot

Trust me,you don't want to see it.I rated it 1/10 but if I could rate it 1,I would.But you will hope you could rate it -10.The plot sucks and the acting is terrible.The acting the worst thing about it and it was the most terrible acting I've ever seen.I admit that it was bloody and brutal but blood doesn't make a terrible movie perfect.Although it's a psycho thriller horror movie,there are no chasing scenes!!It really doesn't deserve watching and I better have saved my money.I sometimes blame my self..Why did I buy it? Don't worry,I didn't say any spoiler but an awful movie like this wouldn't be ruined or spoiled if you knew the storyline from the opening to the ending.The best things about this movie is the title and the poster,they are the only things that made me excited to see it.When I saw the title and the poster,I thought the movie would be like Fright Night (2011) or Disturbia (2007) but it wasn't.I hope this review was useful for you.

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Andrew Mengede

I should preface this review by addressing some issues which have been brought up in other reviews, in order to clarify my opinion on them.Character development - There is little character development in the film, this is really a matter of taste. How much character development do you need? This is torture porn, after all. I found the subtle use of character development to be in line with the atmosphere of the movie, although I did find it frustrating the first time I watched it.Acting - Some of the acting is a little stiff. The characters seem happy enough acting out their mundane ordinary lives but once they get captured and tortured they don't seem to give award winning performances. To the film's credit though, the main antagonist (?) steals the show.The soundtrack and general cinematography was generally very good (songs from the soundtrack are still stuck in my head days after watching it), although around the middle of the movie there's a point where flashback-and-forwards are used a little confusingly.The Girl - Is probably the best reason to see the movie. America Olivo's character is brilliant. Every frame exudes insanity and you'll find yourself chuckling at her twisted sadism. "The Girl" is like Ellen Paige's character from "Hard Candy" with no moral message to give and pure, brilliant, insanity. The Girl is so good that she outweighs all of the bad factors of the film, I give this film 10 girls out of 10.Overall, if you like Hostel and Hard Candy and you aren't adverse to a bit of gore, then go for it. This movie is somewhere between a black comedy and a homage to the old "Video Nasties" and slashers. You may have to watch the movie a few times to pick up the subtleties like character development though.

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