film be make for a variety of different reason but the best that cinema have to offer will invariably provoke an emotional response while and gregory wilson film version of jack ketchum the girl next door be one of the best example of a film to do that while and the emotional response that the film provoke in me be anger . the director force his audience to watch a series of vile atrocity commit towards an innocent and undeserving party . the film make me want to reach into the screen and do something about it and and the fact that i couldn not make this film one of the most gut wrenching and unbearable movie watch experience of my long movie watch career . mainstream hollywood tends to specialise in sear emotional drama design to make it audience shed tear but the fact that everything here be present completely raw mean that the audience be leave to make their own mind up while which have apparently leave some viewer unaffected but it be what ultimately make the film so powerful for me . the film take place in the fifty and we focus on david moran while a young boy who meet a young girl name meg loughlin when she move in next door with her sister after the death of their parent . her presence incite the matriarch of the household while who take it upon herself to use her son ( along with some other neighbourhood child ) to torture and abuse meg and while the case go unreported . the first third of the movie be not too far remove from be a drama about a group of child in the summertime while but a the film move on and thing start to get dark pretty quickly and by then the film grab you by the throat and doesn not let go until the credit role . the violence show in the movie be not particularly explicit while and that possibly why the film do not get a rouse reception from some circle who be hop for an exploitation flick . what we do see be more than enough and however and and it the situation that really make the film what it be . the acting be brilliant also while with the monstrous blanche baker head up a cast of youngster . every film be look at in different way by different people while but i honestly be surprise that some people who saw this film be not affect by it . the girl next door be surely one of the most unforgettable and painful film i have ever see and for that reason i would give it a cautionary recommendation . it well worth see . but you have be warn .