THE NEIGHBOUR
Fear Thy Neighbour
Showing at Horror Channel FrightFest Sunday 28th August
UK cinemas and VOD 16th September
DVD 31st October
From the director of the cult horror classics The Collector and The Collection,
comes a brutal, stylish and paranoid thriller about a married couple
with a shady trade, who discover their next door neighbour is up to even
worse things than they are.
Key talent:
Josh Stewart (The Collector, The Collection, The Dark Knight Rises, War Machines)
Alex Essoe (Starry Eyes, Tales Of Halloween)
Bill Engvall (Blue Collar TV)
Ronnie Gene Blevins (True Detective)
Marcus Dunstan (Writer/director The Collector, The Collection, writer of Saw 4-7)
Charlie Clouser (Composer, the Saw films, The Collection)
Synopsis:
In
the small town of Cutter, Mississippi, army veteran John and his wife
Rosie live on a run-down ranch, dreaming of one day escaping to Mexico.
To raise the cash John runs illicit errands for his uncle. On the day
they plan to finally leave Cutter, Rosie disappears. John thinks his
mysterious neighbour, Troy, might have something to do with it, and
breaks into his house that night. Thinking that his mysterious
neighbour, Troy, might have something to do with it, he elects to
investigate, but discovers a secret far more sinister than he could ever
imagine.
We like it because:
The writer/director and star of hit horror films The Collector and The Collection
team up again for another wildly effective and ruthlessly nasty
trapped-in-the-house thriller, that could almost be the third in the
series. As before, director Marcus Dunstan puts his star Josh Lewis
through hell as a war vet fighting to save his girlfriend from the
clutches of a truly dangerous maniac.
Dunstan, scripter of no less than four films in the Saw franchise, is the go-to guy for nerve-stretching, shriek-inducing thrills – and The Neighbour
provides plenty of those, as well as some of Dunstan’s most
imaginatively realised kills, including death by camcorder and death by
rotting meat. Stylishly shot and adrenalised with a sleek soundtrack
from Saw composer Charlie Clouser, the film starts with a bang
and builds to a deliciously nasty fightback finale that’ll make you
think twice about moving next door to anyone ever again.
The film boasts two fantastic lead performances, from the underappreciated Stewart (soon to be seen in David Michod’s War Machine), and star on the rise Alex Essoe, brilliant in the 2014 psycholigical thriller Starry Eyes, and with a lead role in Simon Rumley’s forthcoming Fashionista.
In a rare straight acting role, popular US TV comedian Bill Engvall is
the murderous Troy, who imbues the line “we all have our little secrets”
with spine-tingling menace.
Fans of Mother’s Day, Wolf Creek, Straw Dogs and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
are in for a blast with this pitch black rural noir, ninety minutes of
deep-Southern fried, blood-spattered mayhem that doesn’t let up and
never lets go.
Release Details:
Showing at Horror Channel FrightFest Sunday 28th August
UK cinemas and VOD 16th September
DVD 31st October
