This slow-burning thriller set in rural Mississippi creates a mood of edgy suspense before unleashing sequences of heart-in-mouth terror.
What the hell is going on next door?
Deep in hardscrabble rural Mississippi, cash-strapped young couple John (Josh Stewart) and Rosie (Alex Essoe), are low-level players in a local drug ring. Yet if they are making a dishonest buck their illicit activities pale in comparison to what their shady, rabbit-shooting neighbour Troy (Blue-collar comedy stand-up Bill Engvall) is getting up to in his cellar…
Lean, slow-burning thriller The Neighbour takes its time revealing its secrets. Too much time, some will feel. But the patient build-up pays off, with director Marcus Dunstan creating a mood of edgy suspense before unleashing some sequences of heart-in-mouth terror. Almost as scary is the film’s implication that resorting to criminality of one kind or another is the only way to get by in the economically depressed society it depicts.
Certificate 18. Runtime 87 mins. Director Marcus Dunstan
The Neighbour debuts on Sky Cinema Premiere on Thursday 18 May. Available on DVD from Arrow Films.
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