A cheap, teenager rip off of the classic Hitchcock film "Rear Window". This made me sick to my stomach. Shia LaBeouf can't act and i don't know why he is getting so many parts. This is just one endless piece of shit.
Directed by:D.J. Caruso Produced by:Steven Spielberg Distributed by:Paramount Pictures for DreamWorks Pictures Cast:Shia LaBeouf
Sarah Roemer
Aaron Yoo
David Morse
After the death of his father in a car accident, Kale Brecht becomes a troublemaker and aggressive teenager. When he punches his Spanish teacher at school, he is sentenced to three months of house-arrest during his vacations. Kale snoops his neighbors with a binoculars and video camera for killing time, and becomes a voyeur of his next door neighbor Ashley Carlson. When Ashley sees Kale and his friend Ronnie at the window, he tells out of the blue that their neighbor Robert Turner seems to be a wanted serial killer from Austin, Texas. The trio sneaks around his house, and Kale begins to suspect that Mr. Turner might really be the murderer.
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Kale: Think he sees us?
Daniel Brecht: No, he can't see us. Trust me, you can feel him when he's watching.
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Ashley: What took you so long?
Kale: We were... We were upstairs playing.
Ronnie: Video games!
Kale: Yeah, video games... This is my friend, Ronnie. Ronald. Say hi, Ronald.
Ronnie: Hi, Ronald.
Kale:[Whispers] You are so stupid. [To Ashley] So, what brings you here? To my house?
Ashley: I got locked out.
Kale: Oh, that sucks.
Ronnie: It's a tragedy.
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Ashley: Are you spying on the neighbors, Kale?
[Pause...]Ronnie: Actually, he is! You see, he's got this neighbor, who, I guess, by definition, would also be your neighbor. Who may, in point, be a cold-blooded killer... from Texas.
Even after seeing this about four or five times, I still jump at the beginning when there is a car crash. It gets me every time. Shia LaBeouf is a great actor and it shows here. This wasn't meant to be a completely scary movie, so expect some funny one liners. Aaron Yoo is also hilarious. This is a great film. Very highly recommended.
Shia is cool! OK, I can understand punching your teacher but taking down a seasoned, serial killer - I find that quite hard to believe. The ending let this movie down.
I think that this was a very well made movie. It was a good modern retelling of Rear Window yet it made itself original and the only reference if any to the inspiration was the dog in the neighborhood. The cast was well rounded and brought together a great movie.
Hey I have an idea, lets re-make a classic and not give it proper credit by changing the title of the movie! That way it'll look like we're original. By the way Shia LaBeouf you're the worst thing thats happened to movies EVER.
Ronnie: [after knocking over camera] Do you think anyone heard that? Kale: Yeah, my deaf aunt in Omaha heard it.
Something dark lurks in the suburbs, something lame and predictable.
I am so glad that a free screening kept me from having to consider paying for this.
The movie takes the premise of Hitchcock's classic Rear Window and uses it for a teenage version of the movie, equipped to frighten high school girls with PG-13 scares.
The movie starts with one of those movie car crashes leaving a father dead and the son sad.
A year later, the son, Kale, is depressed only during one particular day at class, and knocks out his teacher and is placed in house arrest. At this point, Kale is never again as down in the dumps as he was for that plot necessary day.
Now sitting inside his how, Kale exhausts all boring activities except the internet and masturbation and turns to spying on his neighbors.
A new girl moves in next door, and faster than they can start making out, he, she, and Kale's sometimes humorous best friend spy on one neighbor in particular.
This is the kind of neighbor that no one really knows that well despite living in the house for years, but he is still suspicious enough to get the attention of Kale. Apparently the neighbor having a certain car with a scratch might make him a serial killer who kidnaps women. It also helps that this guy happens to get women to scream and run around in his house loud enough so only Kale can hear him.
The movie remains halfway decent for the first two acts, with Shia LaBeouf's charisma moving along with plenty of lame dialog and situations that just don't make sense and are unreal, then the third act kicks into gear and the movie decides to become ridiculously bad slasher film.
This is a very safe PG-13 movie that will no doubt attract plenty of teens and make enough money over the weekend to prompt Disturbia 2: Electric Bugaloo.
Plenty of moments where the killer stares blankly at the camera and pops up out of no where to make people jump if they did not already see it coming from miles off.
Its particularly sad to me that director DJ Caruso started off so well with The Salton Sea, a greatly under seen film, only to turn to easy commercial fair.
Despite few entertaining moments, this is a very lame PG-13 thriller.
Ronnie: It reeks in here! Kale: What's it smell like? Ronnie: The corpse of a rotting hottie.
The film starts off promising. It kicks in once he goes on house arrest. But, then it drags towards the end and some parts were a groaner. But Shia gave a believe peformance as did David Morse. I liked it overall. It was entertaining.
dude. this movie is fantastically freaky. i love it so much, because its so SCARY! like seriously, you will be on the edge of your seat throughout the whole movie.
Shia LaBeouf stars in this gritty take on Rear Window and other flicks about murder and paranoida. A boy who likes taking pictures of his neighbors apparently witnesses the killing of someone next door. Not Hitchcock, but nobody as ever done him right. Still, a suspenseful movie.
It was so creepy! I thought Morse was excellent as the creepy resident.
LaBeouf, not being biast because he's my favourite actor, but he was excellent as serious and funny!
Yoo also, was fantastic as slow Ronnie, and escpecially with his "Kissass" spanol bit was cool :)
And also , I am quite astonished how fantastic Roemer played the girl next door Ashley.
But so tense, i mean I nearly fell off my chair I was that into it! Morse was soo freaking mysterious and the ending
could've been a lot better, but still creepy and shocking, especially the wood/plank falling scene in the basement.
All in all 10/10 for thrill and spill and hotness. *tsst*
In a time of crappy torture-gore flicks it is nice to see a film that goes back to the Hitchcock standards. Although there were a few technical issues, this is one of the best modern teen horror movies I have seen in a long time. Shia is amazing, hated the girl, Morse was definitely creep material. The camera work and writing are what really made this film work. Basically, a big thank you for returning to genuinely creepy suspense horror.
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