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The Girl Next Door
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29 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 5 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 3 out of 5
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    75
    Neither Ketchum nor the filmmakers take an exploitative approach to the material; their focus is the way the youngsters' petty cruelty erupts into murderous sadism.
  2. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Phil Hall
    40
    The result is a great-looking bore.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    30
    Gregory M. Wilson, the film's director, has made the kind of movie that makes you wish you could rinse your brain in bleach, to wash all traces of it from your memory.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Pinkerton
    20
    Any resonance from that real-life atrocity gets smothered by a script that interlaces clichéd dialogue so tightly as to block out any glint of recognizable human behavior.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    12
    If there is anything positive in The Girl Next Door, it is the brave performance by Auffarth, who is in her early 20s. Other than that, there's little reason to see the movie. Unless, of course, you get off on watching the sexual exploitation of underage girls.
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7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. zgp92
    8
    This is a faithfull and solid adaption of Jack Ketchum's brutal masterpiece, which was based on a true story. Could be deeper, but satisfying nonetheless Not for the squeamish.… Full Review »
  2. afxcollin
    8
    This movie is scary…no not scary, disturbing. This is the closest a movie (also the novel) gets to showing true horror; disturbing reality that is hauntingly all too real. This movie has a love it or hate it vibe. I, myself, cannot watch this movie more than once, the book was enough alone, but the payoff is to experience horror that has been palpably real. There are no jack-in-the-box scares here, just physical and psychological imagery that truly makes the film horrorable to witness.… Full Review »
  3. JoeF.
    0
    Irresponsibly exploitive and feebly made. Only harry potter abuses its child actors more.
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