Best Teen Slasher film in a LONG time...

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2008)

While not the typical teen slasher film, Disturbia is successful because it isn't typical. A sort of loose combination of Rear Window and Wm Castle's I Saw What You Did, this fine film manages with dexterity to rise above the squalid stereotypical teens meet killer with a knife trash that is so common, and does this with fine performances, giving us realistic people who we can care about and feel empathy for. A tight script and suspenseful storyline help very much, plus the fact that these are not the "jock and bimbo" teen types, a line in the film that serves this purpose well. It's been a long time since I've seen films with teens who are normal and nice people, relatively so, interact with adults in reasonable fashion. They are usually presented as the all-knowing soothsayers with the adults as ignorant annoyances to the teens' adventures. Also finally figured out what "disturbia" really means. Recommended highly!