It’s Just A Movie

If you like to feel chills up your spine, to be in constant suspense and to permanently wonder “What’s gonna happen now?”, then Disturbia, directed by DJ Caruso, might be the perfect movie for you. One of the best things about this film is that it manages to combine, in a perfect proportion (that obviously inclines towards the thriller genre) the comedy moments with the ones when you can barely breathe, due to all the tension.

What is the movie about? Kale, the teenager hero of the movie has a fight with one of his teachers and is forced to obey a house arrest for three months. And what can a teen do without going out and meeting his friends? He can watch the neighbors! What follows is quite captivating: the close neighbors seem to hide dark secretes, under their “perfect wannabe lives”. More precisely, Kale discovers that his neighbor might be a potential serial killer, but the fact that he is forced to remain at home limits the further investigation possibilities. It might have started like a voyeurism play, like the only available way of killing time for a teenager with a binocle in his hand, but the fact is that things get more complicated and scary once our hero starts to discover the stories behind the window curtains.

With a good script, a captivating tagline “Every killer lives next door to someone” and quite good acting, the movie turns out to be less predictable then you might expect. So, yes, it an be considered a must-see - after all, we are talking about the movie that managed to be on top of the Box Office this week, overcoming by far the “lighter” movies Blades of Glory and Meet the Robinsons, so that must be something!