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Disturbia [HD DVD] [2007]
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
Alfred Hitchcock fans may experience déjà vu upon exposure to this voyeuristic thriller. That's because director DJ Caruso (The Salton Sea) and co-writer Carl Ellsworth (Red Eye) use Rear Window as a jumping-off point before cherry-picking from more recent scare fare, like The Blair Witch Project. In the prologue, 17-year-old Kale (Shia LaBeouf, Transformers) loses his beloved father to a car crash. A year passes, and he's still on edge. When a teacher makes a careless remark about his dad, Kale punches him out, and is sentenced to house arrest. After his mom (Carrie-Anne Moss, Memento) takes away his Xbox and iTunes privileges, the suburban slacker spies on his neighbours to pass the time. In the process, he develops a crush on Ashley (Sarah Roemer, The Grudge 2), the hot girl next door, and becomes convinced that another, the soft-spoken Mr. Turner (David Morse, The Green Mile), is a serial killer. With the help of the flirtatious Ashley, practical joke-playing pal Ronnie (Aaron Yoo), and an array of high-tech gadgets, like cell-phone cameras and digital camcorders, Kale sets out to solve a major case without leaving his yard (a feat that would prove more challenging for a less affluent sleuth). In the end, it's pretty familiar stuff, but there are plenty of scares once Turner realises he's being watched, and rising star LaBeouf makes for an engaging leading man--despite his character’s propensity for slugging Spanish instructors. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
A TAUT THRILLER
Review date: 2008-02-02 Rating: 8 out of 10
Disturbia really boasts a top cast and marks another fine acting performance from Shia LaBeouf (Transformers) but also stands out from the crowd thanks to the stunning presence of the relatively unknown actress Sarah Roemer who is gorgeous! The image transfer is of very high quality throughout with the opening scenes in the mountains really looking stunning in High Definition, almost 3D in depth and the sound is perfectly respectable too.
Underneath all this eye candy there lies a suberb teen thriller with plenty of shocks, including a very unexpected and horrific one just five minutes in which I promise you will never see coming!,a truly sinister bad guy at its heart who really delivers the scares and some very funny moments too which help relieve the building tension, leading you in to a false sense of security, before it gets racked up again!
I highly recommend this movie particularly in glorious HD.
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Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Matt Craven
David Morse
Shia LaBeouf
Sarah Roemer
Carrie-Anne Moss
Creators:
Shia LaBeouf (Primary Contributor)
Carrie-Anne Moss (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
EAN: 5051367102918
Binding: HD DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2008-01-21
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Running time: 104 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2007