Every killer lives next door to someone
After his father is killed in a car accident, things unravel for Kale Brecht and he is placed under house-arrest for punching his Spanish teacher. Having nothing better to do, Kale occupies himself by spying on his neighbors. But one night, he witnesses what appears to be a murder going on in Mr. Turner's house. Kale becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind these murders but, after a few unsettling run-ins with Mr. Turner, it becomes a matter of life and death. And the ominous question: Who is watching who?
Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Runtime: 105 minutes
Rating: 7.0/10 (63,534 votes)
Release Date: 4 April 2007
Country: USA
Languages: English, Spanish
Company: DreamWorks SKG
Sound: DTS-ES, Dolby Digital EX, SDDS
MPAA: Rated PG-13 on appeal for sequences of terror and violence, and some sensuality.
Director(s): D.J. Caruso
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Producer(s):
Jackie Marcus - producer
Joe Medjuck - producer
Kwame Parker - associate producer (as Kwame L Parker)
Tom Pollock - executive producer
Ivan Reitman - executive producer
E. Bennett Walsh - producer
Writer(s):
Christopher B. Landon - (screenplay) (as Christopher Landon) and
Carl Ellsworth - (screenplay)
Christopher B. Landon - (story) (as Christopher Landon)
Cast:
Shia LaBeouf - Kale
Sarah Roemer - Ashley
Carrie-Anne Moss - Julie
David Morse - Mr. Turner
Aaron Yoo - Ronnie
Jose Pablo Cantillo - Officer Gutierrez
Matt Craven - Daniel Brecht
Viola Davis - Detective Parker
Brandon Caruso - Greenwood Boy
Luciano Rauso - Greenwood Boy
Music: Geoff Zanelli
Jackie Marcus - producer
Joe Medjuck - producer
Kwame Parker - associate producer (as Kwame L Parker)
Tom Pollock - executive producer
Ivan Reitman - executive producer
E. Bennett Walsh - producer
Writer(s):
Christopher B. Landon - (screenplay) (as Christopher Landon) and
Carl Ellsworth - (screenplay)
Christopher B. Landon - (story) (as Christopher Landon)
Cast:
Shia LaBeouf - Kale
Sarah Roemer - Ashley
Carrie-Anne Moss - Julie
David Morse - Mr. Turner
Aaron Yoo - Ronnie
Jose Pablo Cantillo - Officer Gutierrez
Matt Craven - Daniel Brecht
Viola Davis - Detective Parker
Brandon Caruso - Greenwood Boy
Luciano Rauso - Greenwood Boy
Music: Geoff Zanelli
Posted on: October 21, 2008
March 4th, 2009
1st watched 2/27/2009 – 6 out of 10(Dir-D.J. Caruso): Tittalating yetaffective teen-focused thriller with the newly christened big star,Shia Lebeouf. He's good enough to carry a movie despite his earlygoofball beginnings with his Disney channel comedy, "EvenStevens.(which I have to admit I liked) This movie is similar to otherpeeping tom movies where they see something they shouldn't but thisone's a little more complex. Shia's character is on house arrest bypunching his teacher after he made a comment about his recentlydeceased father. After his mom pulls the plug on his xbox, Itunes, andTV he runs out of things to do and starts spying on his neighbors. Atfirst he just entices his hormones by watching a teasing neighbor girl,but then gets interested in a neighbor who appears to be doingquestionable things.(like possibly killing a woman he brought home?) Heties his suspicions in with a killer he read about in the newspaper andstarts believing this is him. Sarah Roemer is very flirtacious asShea's lust, I mean love, interest and he also has an Asian friend todo some of his dirty work for him. This group of teens are fun to watchand you never really know if their inklings are true until near theend. Then, of course, you get the good old chase with the main psychocharacter at the end. Despite the movie's similarities to other moviesof this type the movie is fresh and exciting to watch mainly because ofthe new talent and they play out their characters well. This is not agreat movie, but a good one and enjoyable even for an old guy of 44like me.(OK, maybe it's because I'm an old guy of 44??)
March 30th, 2009
Shia's got that everyman thing about him and good comedic timing andall that. This movie's alright in terms of delivering some modestentertainment without being nearly as retarded as most movies of itsgenre typically are. The Asian side-kick guy was pretty funny but otherthan that I thought the acting was not that good. The girl next doorwas a pretty shallow character and the performance just felt veryobvious, for lack of me thinking of a better way of putting it. DavidMorse was okay but his character was terribly clichéd and he couldn'tshake that. Carrie-Ann Moss didn't do anything but was fine otherwise.Shia, of course, is cool. As always.
The story has its moments. Or ideas. Not original but good. Enough todraw you in just the tiniest bit. A good sign when you root for thegood guys if only a little. Music forgettable but effective enough andwithout being awful or distracting (which be rare these days).
I get frustrated that I didn't notice more while watching the movie butit just isn't challenging or meant to be. 'Twas watchable and with somemildly memorable moments. Does that make it worth checking out? Iwouldn't go out of your way…
April 5th, 2009
I liked more this film as a teenager movie than as a mystery one.
The actors are good in here specially Shia LaBeouf, Sarah Roemer (shelooks so cool and beautiful as Ashley) and David Morse, there is a goodchemistry between Shia and Sarah; but it is how the film is developedthat fails because "Disturbia" looks more like a comedy romantic teenmovie than any other thing.
Kale is a teenager who has been punished not being allowed of gettingout of his house otherwise he will go to a correctional, but his boringlife at home will change when the beautiful Ashley move next door andat the same time he begins to suspect that one of his neighbor is apossible wanted serial killer ……..
6 stars = regular
April 8th, 2009
LOL! A big laugh was what came out of my mouth when I saw the IMDbgeneral users' rate to this movie (7/10), after watching it. How can a"FAMOUS FIVE" type of movie like this have such rate? In fact watchingthis I felt like watching a "THE FAMOUS FIVE" episode but with thedifference that this one tries to be a real suspense movie! Well, ittries, but of course it fails, because everything looks so pathetic inthis film! First, those "kids" are too old to play the "FAMOUS FIVE"kind of adventures (spying a psycho killer in the neighbourhood! Whatidea could be more childish and "FAMOUS FIVE" type than this??).Second, what kind of psycho killer tries to kill his victims in hishome, at night, with the windows open, the lights open, and near thewindows??! (I'm still thinking why he didn't come to the window andshout out loud: "Hey neighbours! I'm killing someone, don't you want tosee it??!). Hummm, thinking better I guess I found a kind of psychokiller that could do a thing like that: the psycho killer from a filmlike "SCARY MOVIE"!!! Third, everything else looks so clichéd andboring: the predictable "romance" between the main characters; thefigure of the psycho guy, so stereotyped and close to the figure of a"bad guy"(!); his house (he also has the clichéd type of house thatlooks so small outside but it's so biiiiiiig inside and full ofslashing rooms!); the pseudo-suspenseful scenes like that one in thebasement when the main character was surrounded by floating bodies! Oh,so scary! Oh, so suspenseful! Why didn't anyone told me before it was ateenage movie trying to be a pseudo-suspenseful movie?! I wouldn't havespent two hours of my time with it!
April 16th, 2009
Stupid shitty angst ridden teen pretends he is Jimmy Stewart in thishorrible almost remake of an Alfred Hitchcock classic. Instead of acast he has an ankle bracelet since hes so badass that he punched ateacher. There's no point in even discussing this trash, if you likethe crapper that stars in this movie watch transformers at leastthere's some cgi, which I'm sure is far more important to you thenstory or characters. There isn't even any boobies to make up for thestupidity of this movie, so stupid. All in all, just watch rear window,if you want to see someone spying on people, only you also want to seea good movie at the same time.
May 13th, 2009
Disturbia a clever different type of horror. Yes it doesn't have nogore or too much violence, because it's not meant for that, so if yourlooking for that type of movie you better avoid Disturbia. A great teenHorror/Thriller, executed well by D.J Caruso, it's not easy making ateen horror (keep in mind you are limited in many areas, such as goryscenes.)
Getting straight to it Disturbia is Thrilling and Gripping, it keepsyou on the edge of your seat at times, it has a touch of humour too.It's highly enjoyable film to watch with your friend's or a greatthriller for your movie night. No it's not perfect it does lack somequality's in certain areas, like it take's a while before you reallyget into the movie, before you really get interested, Caruso should ofbought the thrills in a bit quicker. But do not let that put you off,because when the movie does get interesting it really get's going andjust get's more thrilling by the moment. But above all…The acting.Acting was pretty much flawless i can't think of someone else who couldplay Kale in a better way then Shia. LaBeouf again show's his talentand i think the success of the movie is because of him, i probablywouldn't be so interested in the movie if he was not on the cast. Buteven the rest of the cast were decent too. A great GrippingThriller/Horror, load's of intense thrills. Simply go see it.