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Disturbia
EMAILPRINTParamount Pictures / DreamWorks SKG

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
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Based on 88 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Christopher B. Landon (also story)
Carl Ellsworth
Directed by: D.J. Caruso
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 11, 2007
DVD: August 7, 2007
Running Time: 104 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 on appeal for sequences of terror and violence, and some sensuality
Starring Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Matt Craven
Two teens begin to suspect that one of their neighbors is a serial killer. Are their suspicions merely the product of cabin fever and vivid imagination? Or have they unwittingly stumbled across a crime that could cost them their lives? (Paramount Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The Breakfast Club meets Rear Window. The result should satisfy dating crowds from high school to night school.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore
There's plenty to ensure fresh jolts for viewers who know Hitch's tricks inside out, to say nothing of young moviegoers who don't know Grace Kelly from Thelma Ritter.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
One way you know that D.J. Caruso is a resourceful director is that he scares you silly with a minimum of violence and a few smears of blood. His job was certainly made easier by Morse, whose glassy demeanor and high, soft rasp suggests horrors that not even Quentin Tarantino could imagine.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
The bloody wrap-up isn't handled especially well, and I must confess that the most shocking thing about the movie was the casting of Carrie-Anne Moss as a suburban mom. I kept expecting her "Matrix" skills to show up in the final reel.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Though it's not likely to become a classic like the Hitchcock film, it's a smart and well-acted teen thriller that serves up some lively scares.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Morse, with his hulking frame, baby face and soft voice, has probably done too many of these villain roles for his own good. But how could you avoid casting him when he manages to present someone who's screamingly insane in the mildest, most pleasant way?
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
What Disturbia lacks in complexity, it makes up for in witty jokes, sneaky jolts and a timeless lesson: If you've got windows, someone's always watching.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
At a certain point, movies like Disturbia require suspension of belief. To its credit, that moment comes much later in the game than usual. Up until then, like "Rear Window" before it, Disturbia is sly and suspenseful and full of mounting dread.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
Caruso, a very visual director, serves up some surprises and scares, and he's paced his movie briskly. You're out of this disturbing suburbia before you know it, shaken and even stirred.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
Once the plot finally kicks into gear, director D.J. Caruso (Taking Lives) effectively cranks up the tension.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
The battery of startling shock cuts can get repetitive and the plot has a few potholes, but the palpable atmosphere of vulnerability keeps the drama knotted in tension and the audience rooted to the teens in peril.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Zach Haddad
It did a great job of giving chills and making me jump. It may not be the most original film out there, but which ones out there today are completely original anyways?
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
There are no big surprises, but the jumps and jolts are well timed and the overall mood is at once grisly and good-natured -- more diverting than disturbing.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
Squirmingly fun suspenser that brings Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" into the era of vidcams and cell phones, serving up hearty, youth-skewing portions of PG-13 violence and bikini-bait along the way.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
If it's possible to be a rip-off with wit, Disturbia qualifies.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
A nice little mystery thriller that takes a wrong turn on the way to its climax and morphs into a slasher movie.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Does so many things right that it's a shame to see it sink into horror-movie cliches.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Instead of leaving you lamenting the lack of creativity and originality in the film industry, this modest, playful thriller puts you in a forgiving mood.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
There's not one single bombshell dropped in Disturbia; everyone is exactly who you think they are and does exactly what you think they'll do precisely when you think they'll do it.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
The most disturbious part of Disturbia is how engaging this teenage thriller manages to be, even though it's a shameless rip-off of "Rear Window."
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
If you're happy to watch a thriller about a tenth as good as Alfred Hitchcock's, director D.J. Caruso and screenwriters Christopher B. Landon and Carl Ellsworth hold up their end of the deal, at least until the proceedings devolve into standard horror-movie effects and minimal motivations.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
There are a few decent jolts in Disturbia, but overall this ultra-predictable thriller doesn't live up to the hype.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Up-and-comer LaBeouf (Holes) is a young actor to watch, but he's had better opportunities than this teen thriller to show what he's capable of.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
For all its glitz and gadgets, is markedly inferior in everything but teen appeal.
Read Full Review >Washington Post John Maynard
LaBeouf is appealing as the frustrated shut-in, and comic-relief cred goes to Aaron Yoo, who plays his neurotic buddy Ronnie. The ending, though, drags, and the film quickly shifts from a clever homage to "Rear Window" to a bad parody of "The Silence of the Lambs."
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
"Rear Window" never comes up in the Disturbia press notes, which is probably just as well since it steals that movie's premise but none of Alfred Hitchcock's wit, finesse, or seduction.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Dennis Lim
What the new movie lacks in craft, suspense and metaphoric richness it makes up for with, um, gadgets.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.7 (out of 10) based on 88 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Gabor A. gave it a3:
Tries the trick of having a slow buildup to try to fool some critics into thinking this movie has characters. But in the end instead of going from stupid to more stupid like its genre neighbors it simply goes from boring to stupid.
Michael R. gave it an8:
Even though its pg-13 it was a great horror movie.Shia does a great job acting and the serial killer in the movie was very convincing.Its not predictable at all.
Peter W. gave it a0:
A predictable mash-up of Rear Windows and Silence of the Lambs.
Brian M gave it a10:
Brilliant film, but the tension could've been cranked up another couple of notches if it had been longer. Normally I'd give it an 8, but there's far too many people on here giving it ridiculously low scores, so I'll give it a high one.
Robbie B. gave it a10:
A great thriller, Shia LaBeouf is fantastic!!
brother T gave it a1:
Absolutely diabolical. I saw it for free and I still think I was ripped-off.
Peter J. gave it a6:
Good movie. Nothing more, nothing less. The chick in the movie kept me watching :)
