"Next Door" is a Norwegian psycho-sexual mind bender, inspired by the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch.Taking place in a old apartment complex, John's girlfriend Ingrid has broken up with him. She is collecting the few remaining things she has left behind, while another man Ake waits for her in the car outside. John seems to be a regular mild mannered guy, but Ingrid has an uneasy fear of him. He doesn't know what he has done to make her leave and begs her to stay, but it useless. While in the hallway John is approached by Anne the girl next door, she needs his help in moving a cabinet. Anne lives with her sister Kim both women are young, sexy and mysterious. Everything about the girls and their apartment is a little strange and you start to wonder about their motivations and exactly who they are. The girls barricade themselves in their apartment with the cabinet in front of the door. We are told that it is to keep out the man who attacked Kim, but then she denies that she was ever attacked and that Anne has made it up.Things get progressively more bizarre for John as fantasy and reality start to merge. There is something in John's past that's trying to break through. Are Anne and Kim even real? Throughout the story John is on a steady decline until the end when everything comes to a head."Next Door" could easily be an episode of the "Twilight Zone". It is short, compact and takes you on a very strange but interesting ride. It is available on DVD and definitely worth a look.

When this gem came out in 2005 I noticed a review that it was a chiller, a cult one. So I started searching for Naboer, as is the original title. Also noticeable is the fact that it got a rating +18. Never before this movie it was ever given to a movie coming from Norway (in the genre). Here in our region there is a label coming out as Mr Horror bringing out the gems that weren't released and guess what, nr 14 on his list is Naboer. Bought it straight away and watched it immediately. Well, this flick is a beauty. It isn't really a horror movie it's more a psychological one. But it has his gory moments. One of those moments is the scene that has given it the +18. The love scene really get's bloody in some way. I won't spoil the plot but I can tell that some of you out there will have to watch it twice to get it. It's really in the Lynch style, beautifully filmed and really believable actors. Once again a low budget gem. You see, it doesn't have to come from Hollywood to be a good one. Now available here in the Benelux, watch out, it's spoken in the Norwegian language and only has dutch/french subtitles. Normally I don't give that easy a 7/10 but this is the real stuff...

i bumped on this film totally by accident.in fact my girlfriend found it on the shelf of a place where we rent DVD-s. So i didn't had any big expectations on this movie.i watched only Drowning ghost of Norge films.And this one turned out to be a really nice surprise and spent 75 minutes expecting the expected ending.But this one is a psychological roller-coaster that turns you for 180 degrees and you can just stand paralyzed in the end thinking what happened to the nice boy.Excellent acting all.Bravo!!!Scandinavian film producers should definitely try to keep the good work and we expect many great movies.A big relief from all those Hollywood 1ooooooooooooo million budget plastic movies(not all are). if you love this kind of flicks take some time watch this one.

What we have here is a simple, claustrophobic little movie that works thanks to its focus on nastiness on an intriguing surreal atmosphere that constantly intrudes on the sex-charged plot line. The film is a Scandinavian co-production, and this makes it all the more interesting as there aren't a great deal of successful horror movies hailing from this part of the world. The film is short running at just seventy two minutes, but this is definitely a good thing if you ask me as too many films bog themselves down with any number of needless subplots, whereas Next Door keeps it short and sweet, with just the central major subplot taking a central role. The plot focuses on John, a man who has just been left by his girlfriend, for slightly hazy reasons. Left alone in his apartment, he soon bumps into his neighbours - a couple of sexy women who seem all too interested in him. As things start to get more and more weird, it soon becomes apparent that not everything is as it seems...I'd heard that Next Door was one of the nastiest films in years - and while I now think that was said by someone who hasn't spent a lot of time checking out the pleasures of cult exploitation cinema, it has to be said that Next Door isn't really for the feint of heart. The film features sex and violence, and some of the time it features together - which will no doubt please the BBFC no end when they get their filthy mits on the film. The production values are high quality, however, and while the film doesn't feature anything that would cut into a low budget - the crisp cinematography wins it an extra helping of credibility for sure. The acting is also rather good, and the central four actors fit into their respective roles nicely. Director Pål Sletaune obviously has a respect for this sort of film, and the fact that he is keen to implement as much tension and mystery as possible is definitely to the film's credit. Overall, I wouldn't go as far as to say that Next Door is to the standard of a lot of the classic exploitation films – but it's very good for a modern film, and horror fans won't want to miss it.