The Good Neighbor

2016 "You never know who's watching"
6.3| 1h38m| R| en
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Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.

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Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
mtyducs I think the IMDB rating is dead on with this movie. Nothing special but definitely entertaining enough to the point you want to see what happens next. Plus how you can you not like the main dude after Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse?
classicsoncall It's rare for a movie these days to come up with something unique by way of story, but this one's twist ending is bound to create an awareness in the viewer that things are not always as they seem. Up until that point, the picture was dragging for me, primarily due to the shrill relationship between teenage buddies Sean (Keir Gilchrist) and Ethan (Logan Miller). They get involved in what they call their 'Haunting Project', a deliberate attempt to scare their next door neighbor, a neighborhood curmudgeon named Harold Grainey. Grainey's reputation has taken a hit over recent years due to the death of his wife, and the story's non-linear exposition of Grainey's true character is what makes the story's resolution so stunning. All the while I'm waiting for Harold to go big time Sonny Corleone on the pair of instigators, and it just wasn't meant to be. If you can suffer through the emotional outbursts of the frustrating, movie-making, scientist wannabe's, the outcome will most likely affect you with a visceral response. That they seemingly got away scot-free with what might be considered a legitimate manslaughter rap only made me that much angrier.
lopes2204 One of the best movies I've seen in my life. Starting to see the movie, I never imagined what the outcome would be, I totally thought the opposite. I had another vision of the "neighbor". It's a sensational triller, that holds you from beginning to end, the temporal narrative, with flashes, memories and the end to the beginning fits very well, it's been a long time since I was moved by a movie, I cried, serery underrated movie! Masterpiece
morrison-dylan-fan Whilst talking to a friend about what Grunge bands she has been listening to,I decided to ask about what movies she has recently seen,and was told about a Thriller on Netflix UK. Recognising the title from a very good review by Kim Newman in Empire magazine, I decided to pay a neighbourly visit.The plot:Deciding to make their own secret "social experiment" film,Ethan and Sean break into the house of loner neighbour Harold Grainey,in order to plant hidden cameras and other electronic devices around in order to make Grainey believe the house is haunted . Over the next few weeks,Ethan and Sean spend all their waking hours watching Grainey. Desperate to wind Grainey up,the guys use devices that create random power cuts,and even break the windows. Believing that they have a camera in every part of his life,Ethan and Sean soon discover a secret door in Grainey's life that they want to unlock. View on the film:Picking up the camera for a feature film debut after spending years working on major blockbusters as a concept artist,director Kasra Farahani displays a striking artistry for various film formats,with the footage "shot" by Ethan and Sean being given a low-res Video grit,that neatly counters the slick digital format that spans the houses of the guys and Grainey. Recording a mix of genres,Farahani & cinematographer Alexander Alexandrov give the voyeurism of Ethan and Sean an intelligent twist,where the traditional sexual undertone is exchanged for an obsession similar to internet trolling,where the guys want to make their "haunting" troll Grainey to the point where it controls his life.Recording Sean and Ethan starting out on their film project,the screenplay by Mark Bianculli and Jeff Richard give the Found Footage genre a psychological horror dominance,with Sean and Ethan's recordings capturing every waking (and sleeping) moment of Grainey. Looking into each room of Grainey's life,the writers brilliantly turn the Home Invasion Thriller genre round,with it being the things on the outside,and not the "monster" seen inside that are the real terror. Joined by a terrific,short-fuse Logan Miller and Keir Gilchrist as Sean and Ethan, James Caan gives a fantastic performance as Harold Grainey. Speaking a limited amount of dialogue,Cann gives Grainey a ticking time bomb facial expressions,that also carry the weight of what is in the unknown room,of this good neighbour.