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October 2007
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR |
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By Kam WIlliams
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True Tale of Teen Torture Brought to the Big Screen Left orphaned after the untimely deaths of their parents in a car accident, Meg (Blythe Auffarth) and Susan (Madeline Taylor) Loughlin found themselves suddenly adopted by their closest relative, Ruth Chandler (Blanche Baker), a single-mom already raising three adolescent boys on her own. Unfortunately, the authorities entrusting the girls to their aunt’s care had no idea the woman had some serious issues, specifically, that she was a severely disturbed sadist whose mind was spiraling towards madness. Directed by Gregory Wilson, this gruesome screen version paints a super-realistic picture that’s so relentlessly-disturbing it’s likely to trigger debate as to whether the filmmaker might have left too little to the imagination. Cleverly constructed as flashback flick narrated by David who appears briefly in a couple of present-day wraparounds, brace yourself for practically-pornographic horror fare far more frightening than the Scream trilogy. A daring docudrama not for the squeamish. You wuz warned.
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