The Neighbor

2016 "We all have our secrets"
5.8| 1h27m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 19 August 2016 Released
Producted By: Fortress Features
Country: United States of America
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In the town of Cutter, most people keep to themselves. But when John comes home to find his girlfriend missing, he sneaks into his neighbor's house, finding his girlfriend and several other kidnapped people tied up in the basement. When the neighbor come home, John is forced to get out of the house alive and lead the group to safety.

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Marcus Dunstan

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Fortress Features

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The Neighbor Audience Reviews

Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
midocm-154-920977 More of a quick thought summary after just watching it a few minutes ago than a professional astro turf review (apologise for bad English as it is not my 1st language):This movie proves why IMDb ratings are a joke for any genre outside of Drama and non-slapstick Comedy movies. Amazed the budget was so low for this project.My expectations were lowered thinking it to be an average gore flick. The movie draws you in and you care for the characters.. hardly any overacting, females are shown to be neither completely weak damsels nor Mary Sue Goddesses .. they got the balance right and reactions were very realistic. Pretty cool concept well executed and not butchered by the ending as happens so often. Although very subtle we find out towards the end that there are more layers to what meets the eye. Hope they make a sequel as they left room for it.My only complain is that they could've upped the violence a BIT (not too much like Eli Roth) as it is more of a thriller. The duration is perfect - no point watching a 100-120 minute movie, too much downside with that route.Finally - even though I am not a Yank or even political - thank you for not taking any ethnic swipes towards Southerners in general as happens so often in Hollywood.Big Thank you to Director, actors and everyone who was involved with the project. Perfect Friday night movie given the budget :)
cjs6547 There were many opportunities throughout the movie to make the 'neighbor' more mysterious, more freaky, and more cunning, but these were quickly abandoned in favor of a more clichéd criminal. That is my largest disappointment with this film. Otherwise, it worked well as an action/thriller.The protagonists are caught up in a mob's smuggling operation, and they use a telescope to spy at people through the window. One day, the girlfriend (Who, I assume by the hero's subsequent panic is never supposed to leave the house) spots something incriminating and is nabbed by the neighbor. (Yes, this is the actual premise of the film, not the more innocent summaries I have read elsewhere. I don't know why they bother hiding the fact that their protagonists are criminals too).So everybody, who is incidentally criminal, is trying to get one up on each other by sleuthing, tackling, slashing, shooting and your usual hijinks. The movie has good photography, good soundtrack, and is a bit gritty - kind of like the only quality everybody seems to need to survive.
Nenad Dragicevic Disaster. Don't waste time watching this crap. Awfully naive and retarded as anyone who spent time making this.the story of the movie -> 2 neighbors, one is a dealer who made a ton of cash illegally and the other one kidnaps persons(with his 2 sons) to demand ransoms from rich families ....so one time the girlfriend of the dealer neighbor see the other neighbor killing someone, and this one kidnaps her, then the dealer neighbor goes inside the house of the kidnapper for the heroic rescue... actions scenes are worse then movies equivalent to ~1997.Its so freaking bad, there is no scene of horror, and leans towards comedy. What the hell is wrong with productions these months? I mean guys seriously, if u aren't making something which ACTUALLY looks like movie why the hell do you embarrass yourself. 1/10. Ps movie ratings are probably paid by some fake bots =) Obvious, i was guided by IMDb rating but that was my mistake.
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.