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Next Door [2006]
from Tla Releasing
starring Kristoffer Joner, Cecilie A. Mosli, Julia Schacht, Anna Bache-Wiig, Michael Nyqvist
directed by Pål Sletaune

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Colour
• Dolby

Editorial Review:

NEXT DOOR is a sexy thriller filled with unexpected twists. When an eligible young bachelor gets friendly with two women who live in the apartment next to his, he doesn't expect the erotic and ultimately anguishing experience that follows. Will these two seductresses be the end of him or will he escape unscathed?

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Sub-Lynch film noir
  There are good things in this movie, but plot is not one of them. The initial build up - the lost guy, the two mysterious women next door with their strange requests and their labyrinthine apartment - promises much, with shades of John Fowles' "Magus". However, the movie builds up too quickly to a single shockingly violent sex scene and then rather loses any sense of direction for the remaining two thirds of its running time. Clearly the labyrinth is a metaphor for what is happening inside John's (the... more info

• Lesbian? No. Gay? No.
  Yeah, Next Door was an exciting, fast-paced, eerie film with good twists and turns. but what i'd like to know is, why on earth is it listed in the gay and lesbian section? there is nothing homosexual about this film whatsoever! so, to those of you who are going to purchase this film in the hopes of it being gay/lesbian, don't bother.

• How many Norwegian horror films have you seen?,
  Well for me this is my first and I enjoyed it very much thanks to my Amazonian friends who had already seen this and recommended it to me. As beautiful as the direction and cinematography is this story revolves around the office employees John (Kristopher Joner), whose girlfriend Ingrid (Anna Bache-Wig) is recently separated from him. This has its already fragile psyche another missed kick. His life still revolves entirely to the woman who left him; withdrawn, he now lives alone on the top floor of a... more info

• Psychosexual Thriller
  Naboer/Next-Door is the story of a man whose two eerie female next-door neighbours appear to be playing some kind of bizarre and perverse psycho-sexual game with him.
  The eeriness is particularly effective in the first half of the film, although as the story proceeds, it's not long before the outcome is going to be fairly obvious.
  It's a well-done film however, psychologically taut and engrossing and the protagonist's mind appears to be unravelling while being seduced and then provoked in turn by... more info

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