The Girl Next Door
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy whose life will be changed forever.
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- Cast：
- Blythe Auffarth , Daniel Manche , Michael Zegen , Catherine Mary Stewart , Grant Show , Graham Patrick Martin , William Atherton
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Admirable film.
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
I wanted to see this movie bad. I read the book a few times, and the movie did NOT do it justice. If you are familiar with the story of Sylvia Likens, then you know they left out how they used to bathe Sylvia in scalding water. Where was Paula and Marie? Paula inflicted a lot of pain on Sylvia, which was not depicted in the film.Why did they change the names? It's supposed to be based on a true story, but very loosely based to say the least.
The Girl Next Door explores the horrors of extreme mental, physical, psychological and sexual child abuse in a way I've never seen before.This movie is absolutely chilling. It rattled me, and I'm not the easily rattle-able type.If you do have the stomach for it, I would definitely recommend giving this one a watch. It gets hard to watch in some scenes, but overall it's a good movie for it's subject matter. Fair warning, it is the kind of movie that you will only want to watch once.This movie stuck with me for days after I watched it, and it will stick with you too.
I watched this movie, not knowing what I was going to expect. I'm giving a bad review for the obvious reason: because the story is extremely horrible and sad! NO ONE should EVER abuse anyone!! Watching this movie gave me the worst pain in my stomach because the abuse, physical, mental, and sexual, almost made me sick so bad!! I'm surprised I finished this movie because the abuse starts right out of the gate of the movie because I was hoping Meg would survive at the end of the movie. I'm not incredibly sure, but I think that this story is based on the real life of Sylvia Likens, a 16 year old girl who was abused, starved, and murdered around 1965. The good thing that came out of this story is that her sister, Jenny, survived the horrors of the aunt, or whatever she was. I would love to kill the woman, as well as the kids who beat up Sylvia because that is one of the worst and horrible stories that ever happened! From what I know, the mom of the boys who murdered Sylvia died back in 1990 and THANK GOD SHE'S DEAD!!!! She needed to die for what god-less acts she's committed, as well as her children!!! Only one of her boys, who was released from prison a bit ago, ACTUALLY confessed that what he did was horrible and admits that he was wrong and feels bad for the horrible crime he committed. Whatever happened to those kids, I think almost all of them went to prison from 2-21 years so, that eases the anger and sadness for Sylvia's death. Back to the point of the movie: This movie is incredibly sad, heart-breaking, and stomach-churning that I would advise to never watch but, if anyone can handle the sexual and physical abuse, as well as Meg dying, then good but, I would NEVER watch it again!It was too upsetting and stomach- churning to watch and had me sleeping with every pillow in my bed and put on sleep music to help me sleep that night because it was too scarring and disturbing for me to sleep and I didn't sleep for more then 4 hours and then took a nap later on the next day. To sum it all up: DON'T WATCH the movie, because it's too sad and has some nudity, as well as disturbing actions of physical, mental, and sexual abuse that NOBODY needs to see. Take it from me: don't be scarred to bad to sleep!!
Everybody experiences a film different. Some like to watch known actors, some like scenery, and others just like a certain genre. For me a film is good if I can forget all that made the film, and when I can connect with the characters and the story. And in this case... I could feel this film! Sadness, anger, judgment, miss understanding and understanding all of it.So what about the film? Iam not going to spoil it. I've known the real story about Sylvia Likens, and tho it's not 100% the same, this film is a must watch, if you into these events. We read a lot about these events in the newspaper (Fritzl and others) but seeing it, makes a difference.As a film 100% emotional. good actors, and the story line? Well. you might wanna watch a good revenge film after this (Spit On Your Grave or so). Just to get rid of your emotions and possible anger.
