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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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!!
It's Sunday, Oct 23rd and my first feature was The Neighbor, directed by Marcus Dunstan. Starring the star of The Collector films, Josh Stewart, (this is a third film collaboration between Stewart and Dunstan), Alex Essoe, (Starry Eyes, Tales Of Halloween) and Bill Engvall. This is truly a mind blowing top-notched horror thriller that will keep your adrenaline pumping. An extremely intense performance by both Josh Stewart and Alex Essoe. Bill Engvall is one hell of an actor, this is the first movie I have seen of his. Skillful special effects were done by FX Master and Legend Robert Kurtzman. This movie was just so thrilling with that terrifying vibe. So many great things about this movie. It felt like I was watching a third chapter in The Collector series. What an experience on a Sunday afternoon. I'm gonna give this flick an excellent 5 out of 5 stars. Any movie directed by Marcus, I'll be damn sure to own it, because he's such a remarkable director including Josh Stewart, a favorite actor of mine. One of the best films of 2016, and the finest horror thrillers I've ever seen!!!
2016 has brought us some very good predator vs prey in a house movies such as Fede Alvarez's horror hit Don't Breathe and the Mike Flanagan silent suspense film Hush. So now writer of Saw 4-7 and director of the Collector series Marcus Dunstan gives the sub genre a shot. Unfortunately for Dunstan, The Neighbour doesn't make the good list for suspense horror films this year.The film is a little bit generic (as the name would suggest) and doesn't possess the unique quality that the aforementioned films possess. The Neighbour at its core is a snooping-into-other-people's-business-and-finding-something-dark film but fails to bring anything new and exciting to the mix. The dark secret that The Neighbour has feels rather tame when compared to similar films like Don't Breathe, as well as seeing as Dunstan wrote 4 Saw sequels you would expect something more out there and extravagant. This all being said, Dunstan does throw in some inventive weapons later on as the film progresses but it just isn't enough to save the film from forgettable genericness.The film is a short one and so it focuses more on the progression of events rather than their probability. The plot twist surrounding the police officer is intriguing but is never really explained and also Rosie's stomach for violence is rather questionable. The film at the end becomes completely focused on action sequences and rapid pace that it loses substance in doing so.So far I have been rather ruthless towards the director/ writer, but truth be told he does exhibit some rather slick and stylish directing at times. The opening credits and closing sequence stand out with their square box framing and weird black square central to the left of the screen. The film does have suspense and Dunstan does succeed in creating it at times and also does get inventive and a little brutal near the end, but these are only moments in the film, Dunstan needs to step his game up and make the whole film feel like those good on off moments he has shown throughout this film.Overall, The Neighbour is a rather generic film with patchy pacing, that is more of a thriller than a horror. Writer/ director Marcus Dunstan has some interesting moments and ideas but they are so few and scattered that it isn't enough to save the film. Maybe next time he'll hit the nail on the head... or should I say camcorder to the head?
** SPOILERS AHEAD**I didn't have much expectations about this movie, but I like Josh Stewart so I gave it a try. Okay, it's not the best movie ever, maybe even not in top 100 thriller movies, but I liked it! I think the storytelling was simple enough so it didn't became too "blood festive", but thrilling enough to keep my eyes on the screen the whole time. *the spoiler part starts here, be warned*I liked very much that at the end of this movie it was the girl who saved the hot male hero. There are too many movies where woman characters are there only to motivate the male hero to swoop towards some almost impossible rescue mission, always the ones to limp behind the male and be weak and protected. This movie started that way and OK, I would have still watched it, but it was so much better this way. Both of the main characters were strong and weak.