A mysterious new girl arrives in posh suburban neighborhood and quickly sets out to terrorize the town. As she starts breaking into homes and torturing the occupants, they begin to realize t... Read allA mysterious new girl arrives in posh suburban neighborhood and quickly sets out to terrorize the town. As she starts breaking into homes and torturing the occupants, they begin to realize that she isn't just another girl next door.A mysterious new girl arrives in posh suburban neighborhood and quickly sets out to terrorize the town. As she starts breaking into homes and torturing the occupants, they begin to realize that she isn't just another girl next door.
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Joseph Aniska
- Sam Landis
- (as Joe Aniska)
Robert A. Masciantonio
- Kip Wellington
- (as Robert Angelo Masciantonio)
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This movie was a bunch of gory torture scenes with some poor attempts at a plot trying to link them together. The acting was atrocious as was the Tarentino-like directing of showing things happen then going back to before they happened later. It was confusing and painfully amateur. Things happened to the torturees that would have had them (in real life) screaming their heads off in agony and keeping them that way for a LONG time. Here, something unthinkable happens to them, they squint and growl for a minute until it's done, then they are just breathing heavy. It was laughable. The movie desperately tries to make the main character seem hot with a crazy streak. Well she's not hot from the neck up and her attempt at crazy is nothing more than blank stares. On a final note she has a full grown man taped to a chair with silver electrical tape (in what looks like, I couldn't tell) for days. After the horror this guy had been through he could've (any human being could've) broke free. There was one scene where he's just laying on the couch with his hands bound. Ridiculous.
The Story A woman (Olivo) has made a full-time hobby of talking her way into homes, conking people over the head and, when they wake up, finding creative ways to torture them to death, smiling and chatting most of the way. She finds it all quite amusing. Don Carpenter's house (with conveniently soundproofed home recording studio) is her next stop.
The scenes in which The Girl charms people into trusting her are tense and at the same time clever, as are the scenes where delusion is juxtaposed against reality (movie reality, anyway), and we aren't sure which is which. However The Girl reserves most of her creativity for her torture sessions, in which she improvises with staples, nails, glass stirrers, and too many other implements to remember. You'll want to grab The Girl by the shoulders and ask "why?," long before the question occurs to Don. If you haven't yet been desensitized to movie violence, this movie will either do the job or give you nightmares.
Why you should see it: You're getting numb to movie gore, and you're watching 365 movies this year, so you ain't picky.
Why you shouldn't see it: The Girl is one movie monster who stops being fun to watch before long, and the glass swizzle-stick scene is an ordeal even if you're used to horror movies.
The scenes in which The Girl charms people into trusting her are tense and at the same time clever, as are the scenes where delusion is juxtaposed against reality (movie reality, anyway), and we aren't sure which is which. However The Girl reserves most of her creativity for her torture sessions, in which she improvises with staples, nails, glass stirrers, and too many other implements to remember. You'll want to grab The Girl by the shoulders and ask "why?," long before the question occurs to Don. If you haven't yet been desensitized to movie violence, this movie will either do the job or give you nightmares.
Why you should see it: You're getting numb to movie gore, and you're watching 365 movies this year, so you ain't picky.
Why you shouldn't see it: The Girl is one movie monster who stops being fun to watch before long, and the glass swizzle-stick scene is an ordeal even if you're used to horror movies.
This movie is obviously being targeted in classic IBMD shill fashion( making 5-6 sock puppet accounts and trashing it) If you go through all the 1 star reviews they're all made by the same user on 1 review accounts. While this movie isn't anything too great it doesn't deserve to be called the "Worst movie ever" yadda yadda yadda. Believe me its far from the worst movie ever..
My only real problem with the movie was the main psycho girl's acting, which was simply bad when she was trying to come off crazy or torturing her victims. She did fine when she was acting normal, but the crazy act was just hard to buy and came off kind of silly at times. Not in a good way either. The rest of the movie and all involved weren't too bad, the script and the film definitely needed much more, but were worth a watch nonetheless.
5 out of 10 stars is an honest review here. Pretty forgettable, but will pass the time.
My only real problem with the movie was the main psycho girl's acting, which was simply bad when she was trying to come off crazy or torturing her victims. She did fine when she was acting normal, but the crazy act was just hard to buy and came off kind of silly at times. Not in a good way either. The rest of the movie and all involved weren't too bad, the script and the film definitely needed much more, but were worth a watch nonetheless.
5 out of 10 stars is an honest review here. Pretty forgettable, but will pass the time.
No plot , no storyline , disjointed, bad acting , poor special effects and not scary in the least. Disgusting , yes.
Who are any of these people? There is no explanation at all into any of the characters especially the hot torturer/murderer lady.
Maybe it should have been a short there is no reason for it take 90 minutes to tell the story of guys planning party , lady showing up torture and murder a bunch of idiots.
What happened in the middle she is killed off then just pops back in all okie dokie killing off the same idiot as before earlier in the movie. it is like they made two movies of the same topic changed it a bit and stuck them together.
Who are any of these people? There is no explanation at all into any of the characters especially the hot torturer/murderer lady.
Maybe it should have been a short there is no reason for it take 90 minutes to tell the story of guys planning party , lady showing up torture and murder a bunch of idiots.
What happened in the middle she is killed off then just pops back in all okie dokie killing off the same idiot as before earlier in the movie. it is like they made two movies of the same topic changed it a bit and stuck them together.
I love a good psychotic neighbor movie - but this one is a train wreck.
There is SO much not to like here especially the pathetic acting. It's almost worth watching this movie just to see what bad acting really is.
One hint to the "actors": when you are being tortured please pretend that you are in pain.
On a positive note (the only positive note) the blood and gore was well done (especially for a low budget B movie) and is the only redeeming quality of this movie. Unfortunately that's not nearly enough to justify watching this.
And forget the good reviews - if you are unfortunate enough to watch this - you will know they are BS.
There is SO much not to like here especially the pathetic acting. It's almost worth watching this movie just to see what bad acting really is.
One hint to the "actors": when you are being tortured please pretend that you are in pain.
On a positive note (the only positive note) the blood and gore was well done (especially for a low budget B movie) and is the only redeeming quality of this movie. Unfortunately that's not nearly enough to justify watching this.
And forget the good reviews - if you are unfortunate enough to watch this - you will know they are BS.
Did you know
- TriviaThere are over fifty horror film references made in this film.
- Crazy creditsThere is an additional scene before the final credits.
- Alternate versionsThe UK release was cut, cuts required to remove sexualised focus on the torture and sexual assault of a man by inserting a urethral sound into his semi-erect penis causing severe bleeding, in order to obtain an 18 classification. Cuts made in line with BBFC Guidelines and policy, and the Video Recordings Act 1984. An uncut classification was not available.
- ConnectionsFollows Cold Hearts (1999)
- SoundtracksPhiladelphia
The Low Budgets
from the Album, 'Leave Us A Loan'
Chunksaah Records/Schuylkill Records
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