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A teenage girl,
Meg, and her younger sister have
recently lost their parents and are staying with their
abusive aunt Ruth. Ruth has two sons and feel general
hatred towards other women so together with her two
sons and their friends, she ties Meg up in the basement
where they torture here for days on end. David, one
of the young boys who has to be part of all this, is
not a voluntary participant as he's become good friends
with Meg. But can he stop it before it's gone too far?
As I'm writing this review, tears are still running
down my cheeks. There are no words to explain this
movie with and I'm not even sure that I should try
to review this film, to do so properly the way
that it deserves to be reviewed, you really must be
an author who's worked for several years. Naturally
I will do my best though but I'll keep it short.
A couple of days ago I saw "The Mist" and described it
as an emotional rollercoaster, which it was, but it
was nothing compared to this. I was literarily consumed
by hate, by fear, by sorrow and so many more emotions.
Not a single one of those feelings were uplifting. The
Girl Next Door is really as destructive and disturbing
as they come. Films like Hostel and Saw pale in
comparison, big time!
The Girl Next Door takes place in the late 50's and
follows a young boy named David Morgan and a teenage
girl called Meg Loughlin. Meg lives together with her
aunt Ruth, her younger sister and her aunts two sons
since her parents recently died in a car accident.
This is anything but a blessing in disguise since Ruth
is abusive and deranged and hates women above everything
else in the world. She ties Meg up in the basement where
she tortures her together with her two sons and their
friends in all kinds of unspeakable ways while David
tries to find the strength to tell somebody of what's
going on in the basement. That's all I'm going to say
about the story.
What probably made this movie so powerful is that it's
based on a true story (aren't those always the best
movies?) but not even this horrifying movie manages
to portray the horrors that Sylvia Likens (or Meg as
she's called in this movie) was put through I imagine.
The torture scenes that were left out were probably
left out for good reasons (you can look them up on
wikipedia). The Girl Next Door is no low-budget indie
flick, it's a very nice-looking film indeed and that
makes it even more difficult to watch. It feels so
realistic that you at several times feel sick to your
stomach. Now, I probably seem to be coming down on this
movie a lot but the fact is, this story wasn't meant
to be sweet or mainstream, it was meant to be hard and
depressing no matter how difficult it is to sit through.
The Girl Next Door is pure brilliance, it really is,
it's the most disturbing and shocking movie that I've
ever seen I think - and that's saying a lot. It's done
with style and it's done flawlessly but I can't
recommend it, I simply can't. I don't want anyone to
witness this movie. It's one of the best movies of the
year but no one should have to see the pain and
suffering that this girl went through. If you decide
to see it anyway - which I'm guessing that you will,
remember that you've been warned.
The gore wasn't what made it disturbing, believe me.
Good soundtrack but honestly I didn't listen very
closely to it, I was too much into the film.
One of the hardest films I've had to sit through. The
Girl Next Door is so disturbing and so destructive
that it shouldn't be viewed by anyone - and still, it's
such a powerful and brilliant movie where everything
is done flawlessly that you can't help but to love it.
I will never watch it again, that's for sure, and it's
going to take many days before I can get over it.
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