Disturbia - 6th March 2012

For this weeks Tuesday Night is Film Night film, we depart from the pink and fluffy, chick-flick, rom-com genre and run headlong into a dark and disturbing thriller, aptly called;

Disturbia

So, taken as a whole the film was not too scary. However, the tension builds and builds to an edge-of-the-seat or behind-the-sofa finale.

So what is Disturbia all about?

Well, the film centres of Kale Brecht (Shia LaBeouf) a high school kid that is involved in a car accident, which kills his father. As a result Kale becomes difficult and ends up punching his Spanish teacher. For this misdemeanour he is placed under house arrest and electronically tagged so that he cannot wander more than 100 feet from his house.
From the solitude of the family home, he begins to observe activity in his neighnourhood. Spying on the people that surround him, including Ashley (Sarah Roemer) who has just moved in next door. So this thriller has some love interest.

However, it is another neighbour; Mr Turner (David Morse), that Kale becomes obsessed with, having witnessed what he believes to have been a murder, taking place next door.

Interest in Mr Turner increases, and Kale ropes in Ashley and his school friend Ronnie, to help with the surveillance.

The tension builds and the film takes a darker route, when Ashley is following Mr Turner at the supermarket, whilst Ronnie and Kale try to discover some of the secrets of the house next door. When Ashley loses track of Mr Turners' whereabouts, things start to get scary, especially when he stops her in the car park and takes her car keys.

What will he do?

What he actually does is to tell Ashley, that he is a private man and doesn't appreciate being spied upon. So, he knows he is being watched, but as he points out, who is watching who?

From here the tension grows. Ashley wants Kale to drop the spying. Kale is convinced that Mr Roberts is a serial killer. So he concocts ways of obtaining evidence, but each time he seems to be thwarted by Mr Roberts.

So, is Roberts a serial killer. Is Kale deluded and totally wrong?

You'll need to watch the film to find out! We don't give away much here at TNiFN.

Needless to say, this is a good tense film to watch. Not too much gore, but enough scares to keep you hiding behind the cushion. It is fairly easy going to start of with, but the tension builds and the suspense grows to a great finale.