Product Description Product DescriptionBased on a true story & book by jack kethum. A teenage girl meg & her crippled sister susam whose parents are dead now are left captive to the savage whims & rages of a distant aunt who is rapidly descending into insanity. Only one troubled boy stands between meg & susan & their cruel torturous deaths. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 09/30/2008 Run time: 93 minutes Rating: NrBased on the novel by acclaimed author Jack Ketchum, The Girl Next Door draws its nerve-wracking power from a real-life horror show--the torture of Sylvia Likens and her sister by Gertrude Baniszewski and her offspring in the mid-1960s . Here, the Likens character is a recently orphaned teen taken in by Ruth Chandler , a single mother who plies her adolescent sons and their friends with alcohol and lax supervision. Ruth takes an almost instant disliking to the bright young girl and her sister and mounts a campaign of mental and physical abuse upon them; her sons quickly fall into step behind their mother, and a neighborhood friend struggles with his own participation in the atrocities. As true crime thrillers go, The Girl Next Door succeeds on many fronts: Baker and Auffarth give impressive performances, and the violence, though harrowing, is never offered as exploitation. Director Gregory Wilson also keeps the pace brisk and breathtaking as the torture escalates; however, he is less capable in the expositional scenes, and the script by Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman has a leaden ring at times . Still, it's challenging fare for strong-hearted horror and suspense fans. The DVD includes two sets of commentary: one by Wilson, producer Andrew van den Houten, and cinematographer/co-producer William M. Miller, and another by Ketchum and the screenwriters, who pull no punches in expressing their displeasure over changes made to the film's conclusion . Interviews with the cast and crew and the original screenplay round out the supplemental features. --Paul Gaita
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