Every killer lives next door to someone
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Shia LaBeouf, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Morse, Aaron Yoo |
| Director |
D.J. Caruso |
| Screenplay | Christopher B. Landon, Carl Ellsworth |
| Music | Geoff Zanelli |
| Cinematography | Rogier Stoffers |
| Editing | Jim Page |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital EX, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2007 |
| Produced by | Cold Spring Pictures, Dreamworks SKG, The Montecito Picture Company |
Official Site | IMDB page | CAP Report | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large
| Genre | Thriller |
| Language | Infrequent, includes infrequent blasphemy |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | Mild, infrequent |
| Violence | Not frequent, but has a prolonged violent scene |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Violence is not graphic or gory, it is implied. However the movie is very suspenseful, and contains a lot of threat and menace. |
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| Category | Score (-50 to 50) |
|---|---|
| Wanton Violence / Crime | -50 |
| Impudence / Hate | -50 |
| Sexual Immorality | -50 |
| Drugs / Alcohol | 40 |
| Offence to God | -50 |
| Murder / Suicide | 30 |
| Final score | -22 |
Sex / Nudity |
Violence |
Blood / Gore / Gross |
| Guns / Weapons |
Profanity |
Alcohol / Drugs |
Smoking |
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Zane Henry  Hitchcock for the MTV generation. | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Francois Bloemhof 'n Lomp draaiboek met ongemotiveerde handelings. | 5 |  |
| Cape Times Dennis Lim Echoes of Hitchcock in teen thriller. | 10 | |
| iAfrica.com Melanie Daly Disturbia is definitely a passable DVD idea for a rainy Saturday night. | 8 | |
| Mail & Guardian Shaun de Waal | 14 |  |
| The Citizen Peter Feldman Disturbia is competently made and imminently watchable — but it could have benefited from a higher suspense ratio. | 14 | |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge A slick, slight but highly entertaining thriller. | 10 | |
| 24.com Alistair Fairweather If it weren't for the instantly likeable lead actor, the entertaining Disturbia would have been another ordinary teen thriller. | 10 | |
| BBC Paul Arendt Disturbia is a popcorn-clutching treat. | 15 | |
| Box Office Annlee Ellingson Hip Rear Window homage disturbed in last reel | 10 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson Occasionally inventive but ultimately rote teen thriller.
| 5 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli Disturbia is a nice little mystery thriller that takes a wrong turn on the way to its climax and morphs into a slasher movie. | 13 |  |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Cool stuff. Cool movie. | 15 | |
| ScreenItThe film moderately works for a while until it completely unravels in the third act. | 9 | |
| Metacritic.com 28 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 156 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer A tense, subtle thriller with a noteworthy performance from Shia LaBeouf. | 14 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 25923 Netizens Not very original but better than most of the teen horror/thrillers recently | 14 | |
Average .. 56% | 11 | |