The House Next Door

I can be very picky when judging a suspense-horror type movie. I can honestly say I enjoyed House Next Door very much. Mainly because the type of suspense shown in the movie was believable. We've all experienced weird neighbors, not... Full review

The young couple Lori Peterson (A.J. Cook) and her husband Tom Peterson (Matthew Harrison) moves from Chicago to a suburb, to live in a huge house. Their neighbors Helen Schmidt (Theresa Russell) and Carl Schmidt (James Russo) welcome them with... Full review

As a writer and a filmmaker myself, I try not to be ultra-critical when you consider all of the elements that go into making a film. When viewing this one, I quickly realized that John Benjamin Martin's script didn't have... Full review

Uh-oh. The bland leads are Canadian. The movie staff is mostly if not all Canadian. The setting, which consists mostly of two side-by-side generic-looking houses and their yards, is right out of THE X FILES in the years it was... Full review

Actors are not bad in this film as a matter of fact acting is very good and believable. Also the filming is quite good as much as I can say something about it. But when the actually story is sooooo... Full review

the title really says it all but i can expand a bit. The acting was breathy and lacked any talent what so ever. The plot was obvious and stupid. I saw the end of the movie the second the movie... Full review

This is slightly less suspensefull then having somebody tell you the plot of "Rear Window". All scenes are done by the book, with no big mistakes, but with no imagination or heart either. The actors save the movie from being... Full review

This is the story: my wife and I ran into The house next door at the video rentals, she picked it up and read at the back cover that this is one thriller in the vein of Hitchcock's The rear... Full review

This conventional woman-in-jeopardy suspencer, screened at the American Film Market in February, has enough predictable situations to place it in the lightweight horror category.A young Chicago couple, married two years, move into their country dream home only to discover their... Full review

I had the opportunity of being invited to the Vancouver screening of `The House Next Door'. The movie was very well done; it kept everyone in the audience on the edge of their seats wondering... why doesn't she leave? Vancouver... Full review

Armond White The New York Press turns 20, giving an opportunity to lash out at all those snake-hipped word-slingers once again. Only this time, at length: "There's more writing about movies these days than ever before. In print and online, ... Full Article

"I can recognize a cultural turning point when it smacks me in the kisser.Griffith has been trounced.Chaplin rules."Click his name to find out what in the world Stuart Klawans is going on about in the Nation . ... Full Article

Over at The House Next Door, Matt Zoller Seitz invites everyone to participate in a Robert Altman blog-a-thon on March 3 in anticipation of the director's honorary Oscar. ... Full Article

Another film critic who's forged a rep in print takes the leap: Matt Zoller Seitz launched his blog, The House Next Door , on New Year's Day. ... Full Article

Andrea Joy "A.J."Cook is a Canadian film and television actress who was born on July 22, 1978 in Oshawa, Ontario. The daughter of a teacher and a psychiatrist, she was raised along with three siblings, and is a devout... ... Full Article

Lori and Tom Peterson have moved into their dream home, next door to perfect neighbors Carl and Helen Schmidt. Lori, still haunted by a brutal rape in Chicago years earlier, soon begins to suspect that the Schmidt's are not what... ... Full Article