The Girl Next Door

Meg Loughlin's parents are dead, causing her and her sister to live with their aunt Ruth. Ruth is not like the other parents: she allows the neighborhood children to smoke and drink, and has an intense dislike for Meg --... Full review

This was, without a doubt,the most disturbing movie and book ever brought out. But for a different reason.The motive was why it hit me, purely to "Teach a lesson". When I was 15 years old, my father had chained me... Full review

This movie disturbed me to my very core. The acting is superb. The plot is very engrossing. Everything about this movie screams unbelievably well done and the makers of it should be extremely proud. This is the first Horror /... Full review

Its been a really really long time since I seen a movie this intensely horrifying. This is the type of movie that starts off soft and ends at the climax, leaving viewers breathlessly shocked. I have never before seen children... Full review

I was very unsure on how to rate this film. I watched it all and to be fair the film held my interest throughout. I would say it is probably a good film but something I cannot say I enjoyed... Full review

Before I get into the film let me briefly surmise the actual case that this film is based on. Firstly, the actual case of Sylvia Likens was in reality much more brutal than this movie portrays. If you can try... Full review

Based on a true story, this is one sick and very very disturbing movie. A foster Mother has a couple of young Sisters join her foster family, and the boy next door becomes friendly with the oldest girl. The foster... Full review

This is an excellent film and therefore in some ways it is a pleasure to watch, but anyone who has seen it will know that it's effectiveness in fact makes it almost unbearable to watch.The story revolves around two girls... Full review

My preliminary research into this adaptation of a tale of demented human cruelty had me primed to expect a grueling viewing experience, if only I could be sure I would make it to the UK premier screening. But it was... Full review

By Cam Lindsay Since its 1989 release, Jack Ketchum's novel The Girl Next Door has been commended and condemned for the author's graphic and fictitious depiction of Sylvia Marie Likens, a young girl who was brutalised by her foster parent, Gertrude Baniszewski. ... Full Review

Much in the way the details of the Ed Gein case wormed its way into the psyche of horror writer Robert Bloch and motivated the author to dramatize Gein's murderous deeds in what became the classic novel Psycho , the... ... Full Article

AUNTIE Ruth is a perv - and so, I suspect, are some of the peo ple responsible for the repellent film "Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door," based on a Ketchum novel that was itself based on real-life events. ... Full Article

ike some demented cross between a Norman Rockwell painting and an Eli Roth film, The Girl Next Door flaunts the dark side of suburbia while selling itself as an examination of our social mores. ... Full Article

Left orphaned after the untimely deaths of their parents in a car accident, Meg (Blythe Auffarth) and Susan (Madeline Taylor) Loughlin found themselves suddenly adopted by their closest relative, Ruth Chandler (Blanche Baker), a single-mom already raising three adolescent boys... ... Full Article