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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0013131559699
Label: ANCHOR BAY
Manufacturer: ANCHOR BAY
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: ANCHOR BAY
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 04, 2007
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 5150
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Product Description:
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 (Emmy® winner Blanche Baker of HOLOCAUST). 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. William Atherton (DIE HARD), Catherine Mary Stewart (NIGHT OF THE COMET) and Grant Show (MELROSE PLACE) co-star in this devastating drama adapted from the controversial best seller by Jack Ketchum that Rue Morgue Magazine called one of the most disturbing reads in the history of horror literature.
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Based on the novel by acclaimed author Jack Ketchum, The Girl Next Door draws its nerve-wracking power from a real-life horror show--the torture of Sylvia Likens and her sister by Gertrude Baniszewski and her offspring in the mid-1960s (the case also serves as the basis for the film An American Crime). Here, the Likens character is a recently orphaned teen (Blythe Auffarth) taken in by Ruth Chandler (Blanche Baker), a single mother who plies her adolescent sons and their friends with alcohol and lax supervision. Ruth takes an almost instant disliking to the bright young girl and her sister (who is afflicted with polio) and mounts a campaign of mental and physical abuse upon them; her sons quickly fall into step behind their mother, and a neighborhood friend (Daniel Manche) struggles with his own participation in the atrocities. As true crime thrillers go, The Girl Next Door succeeds on many fronts: Baker and Auffarth give impressive performances, and the violence, though harrowing, is never offered as exploitation. Director Gregory Wilson also keeps the pace brisk and breathtaking as the torture escalates; however, he is less capable in the expositional scenes, and the script by Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman has a leaden ring at times (which undoes the efforts of the younger cast). Still, it's challenging fare for strong-hearted horror and suspense fans. The DVD includes two sets of commentary: one by Wilson, producer Andrew van den Houten, and cinematographer/co-producer William M. Miller, and another by Ketchum and the screenwriters, who pull no punches in expressing their displeasure over changes made to the film's conclusion (and their assessments are entirely correct). Interviews with the cast and crew and the original screenplay (in DVD-ROM format) round out the supplemental features. --Paul Gaita
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Humans are vile.
I love horror movies, so I have seen some pretty sick stuff. With that said, The Girl Next Door is the most horrifying movie I have ever seen. As one reviewer said, I wish I could wash my brain with bleach. Knowing it is based on a true story and it happened to children, really made this painful.The horrible abuse these girls suffered made me fast forward through a lot of the movie. The acting, direction, cinematography is all very well done, and it's a solid film, but certainly nothing I ever ... Read More
Rating:  - A film of exterme derangement
This is not a film for the light hearted.As other reviewers have noted however, the film is a superb depiction of sadism's corruption of innocence.Of course the fact that it is based on a true story only makes it that much more sickening.Be prepared for a journey into the darkness of humanity!
I loved the film for its introspective look at what we can be versus what we choose to be.
Rating: - Human brutality knows no limits
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 Next Door? I've been sitting in front of my computer screen for the last thirty minutes, knowing that I have to write something about this film but unable to do so. How can I write about the shocking nature of this film, about the brutality ... Read More
Rating: - The Truth Is Far worse Than This Fiction
Like Ketchum, I became aware as a young adult with the Likens case after reading Nash's excellent "Bloodletters and Badmen" series back in the seventies. It also haunted me and I couldn't understand why no one had written more on the case. It was only recently I learned of and read John Dean's "House of Evil" originally published in the sixties. I have to say that I was a bit offended by the embellishments made in this screenplay; it's hard to explain why though. Something about the Likens case brings ... Read More
Rating:  - It's Not True!Low Budget Horror Flick Claims To Be More, But Fails
"Based On A True Story" may be the most abused sentence in Hollywood history."The Girl Next Door" claims variously to be "based on a true story", "inspired by actual events", etc.It is, however, an adaptation of a novel and while both may well have been "inspired" by a 1965 Indiana child abuse case, the only thing I could find in common between the film and the actual case was that significant portions of both took place in a basement.
Seen as a horror film, "The Girl Next Door" certainly ... Read More
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