The Neighbor (2016)
In the town of Cutter, most people keep to themselves. But when John comes home to find his girlfriend missing, he sneaks into his neighbor's house, finding his girlfriend and several other kidnapped people tied up in the basement. When the neighbor come home, John is forced to get out of the house alive and lead the group to safety.
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best movie i've ever seen.
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
In "The Neighbor", a young couple involved in dealing drugs notices the rather strange behavior of their new neighbor, who seems to hide some secrets on his wide-spread farm. When they begin to investigate, things soon take a turn to the worse as they find themselves trapped in a net of violence and domination.As you may have already noticed, this movie had some prominent role models. In fact, in many aspects it is just another shot at the same plot that "Disturbia" already remodelled. So this will clearly not win any award for creativity or innovation. This said, the film actually delivers a very solid performance. It creates a lot of tension, it makes you feel uneasy and it does make you cheer for the lead characters. At some points in my eyes it wanted a bit too much, some of the aspects are never fully explained or seem rather implausible, but all in all since the movie doesn't try to be something it isn't, that's not something too bad. I wouldn't say that it is the best shot at this story, but it takes it over without bigger mistakes.All in all if you see this as a thriller, there's really not much to complain about. It isn't creative and it's far from being deep, but as pure entertainment it works quite well.
In the town of Cutter, most people keep to themselves. But when John comes home to find his girlfriend missing, he becomes suspicious and sneaks into his neighbor's house. What he finds there is unnerving, to say the least. Will he escape the house alive or become another victim? The Neighbor with a bigger budget and definitely a much better and talented cast it could turn out to be a great film unfortunately it was very slow paced and just your typical dumb horror film with some guy from next door who is crazy. There are way better movies out there on this kind of genre it's just that this movie isn't one of them. I'll give it an F!!
Won't win any awards for most original screenplay but it was still pretty well-made and for the more part fast-paced thriller (at least the second half).'Don't Breathe' is one of my favorites so far of 2016 and this is a bit similar to that (a criminal couple vs a old guy) although not as great of course but still good enough. Imagine if Rob Zombie directed that movie then you kinda get the idea of what this is like.To be fair though the director Marcus Duncstan is in no way copying that movie or anything and has made similar movies before with 'The Collector' and 'The Collection' on his resume.Not without it's flaws but overall a gritty and cool flick that's well worth spending 80 minutes to watch.
Saw this on a pirated 50 rupees DVD. A very good thriller. Period. I saw the trailer on you tube while going thru horror movie trailers. I added it to my watchlist in my diary after knowing that Mark Dunstan (The collector 1 n 2) is the director n Josh Stewart is the lead actor. I m a big fan of these two. The movie is a lil slow in the beginning but the end result is very satisfying. One may say it's predictable but it is a straightforward basic thriller without the clichés found in most of the movies. No wasting time in chatting or dialogues, straight killing. "Ugly" from The Good, the bad n the ugly wud have been proud" for his no talk n shoot first. One more surprising thing in this movie was that the females were not shown as weak n stupid. Majority of the horror/thrillers got this stupid scene where after bashing the bad guy with jus one hit, the person starts chatting with the "tied up person" n instead of making sure that the bad guy is dead....... Glad that this movie doesn't hav that sorta stupid thing. The movie does hav lots of tension, suspense n brutal killings but no torture. Josh Stewart acted well. The guy is very likable inspite of his "dirty jobs". Very good direction by Dunstan. One of the best part was the background music. One may find it a lil similar to The Collector for its cat n mouse game, minus the traps. Good shot gun scenes. Good cinematography. Good editing. I hope they show more about the dirty job of the lead characters in the sequel.