Nonureva Really Surprised!

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

trashgang I came across this one because I liked Don't Breathe (2016) people said well there's another one in that style to watch but hasn't got the publicity the other one had. So i picked it up.It starts rather as a flick about dealing in drugs and living underground to earn money so John (Josh Stewart) and his girlfriend Rosie (Alex Essoe) can leave it all behind and go to start a new life. Until that point this flick is not delivering but of course on day they got a visit from their neighbor. From there on this flick suddenly turns into a brutal flick were it doesn't matter who's face is smashed to bits, girl or boy. I can't go too deep into the story or I would spoil it all but you just doesn't see it coming how this flick turns into a horror suspense flick.Excellent flick, don't bother about the characters not being evolved, this is all about surviving. Gore 1/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Dan Harden 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?

ekv-115-3491 ** 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.

Corey James This is my review of The Neighbor (spoiler free)*** (3/5)It's been 4 long years since Director Marcus shocked audiences everywhere with his sequel to the original masked slasher movie The Collection and the spirit of that movie looms deep within this which is more like the low-budget version but still keeps the same thrills and threats. Although this takes a more dramatic spin by making it a neighbour thriller that in a way teaches a lesson to never go looming into a neighbour's home because you never know what you could find. It uses the same style as The Collector and its lumbered and forgotten sequel The Collection it has the style that the killer keeps a secret lurking in his home with a secret tunnel filled with cages and a couple of badly designed paper mache masks. Although this time the protagonist is a lot stronger and conveniently knows how to use a gun. Normally home invasion movies like this have a knack for having a vulnerable protagonist that always manages to be taken and/or killed by the antagonist, both of whom show to be self reliant and know how to fight. Apart from this years Don't Breathe which had strong protagonists and a vulnerable antagonist who was more like a victim. There have also been several home invasion movies with vulnerable protagonists you get the picture but this seems to be completely different with having two characters who are completely even of sorts. Set in Cutter, Mississippi John (Josh Stewart) makes a stable living with his girlfriend Rosie (Alex Essoe) with a sort of thieving business when he replaces old registration plates from cars who come passing by, run by his Uncle Neil (Sid Sudduth) who talks like he is a member of a mafia of some kind, a man who knows every single movement that everybody does. The story is okay it's a fun addition to the home invasion genre but it's lumbered, mitigated by violence to get it through although through its editing style it takes a while for the violence to kick in so, in a sense a lot better than the slasher style of The Collection. In terms of character development there isn't much it's a little progressive but only manages to offer a few lines of development before it gets to the home invasion part which lasts awhile and considers itself to be the main set-piece much like Don't Breathe. But the characters and show to be pretty fighters and know how to use fire arms. It starts off slow basically showing who John is for the first forty to fifty minutes but this makes the film a bit better as some horrors will try to get to the violence straight away, but this low-budget version of a slasher film shows to be surprisingly better than most other higher-budget slashers for example Saw who were the producers of The Collector but Markus Dunstan shows to be on his own with this, not relying on the producers of Saw and it shows that he can make a decent home-invasion movie on his own. After the first how has been done and gone it turns into an escape style thriller when John discovers that his girlfriend has been taken by the neighbour from hell and then the violence comes in a little more progressive than you might expect. Although hankered with the material this strives to be better than most slasher films and at points succeeds but at others it tries to be the same, when the mask goes on and the deep voice comes in it's mostly after that, which is unfortunate. All can be forgiven even with its short run time it offers a decent story, with a lot of violence and also a lot of towards the denouement which is happy and a lot as the relief of freedom is set. There is a recurring theme with most of this but there is one that is completely predictable when Troy (Bill Engvall) and his two sons Cooper (Luke Edwards) and Harley (Ronnie Gene Blevins) who love filming their victims on a type of film camera and are in this what they call business for money. And with a shocking twist towards the end that Troy must be working for some kind of employer telling himself that he is the middle man a lot like John who is also the middle man working for an employer, with a controversial business. All this leads to an ending which is very short but happy as John escapes the home where he is held and the thing he wanted was to investigate the neighbour's home. It's a decent low-budget home invasion movie that's full of violence and can be forgiven for its incredibly short run time, and could be seen as a watch able addition to the home-invasion genre, and at some points succeeds to be better than other higher budget home invasion movies. This could be one of the best Marcus Dunstan movies ever.VERDICT: A violent, home invasion movie that's a bit lumbered and shamelessly hankered down with some of the themes, but it is good at what it does.6/10 good.