A mostly entertaining modern take on Hitchcock's 'Rear Window.'

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2007)

Somewhere in the middle of the movie the main character makes a reference to the big city suburbs as 'disturbia' (suburbia) and that is the source of the name of this movie, a reference to disturbing things that tend to go on in neighborhoods.
Shia LaBeouf is the lead character Kale Brecht and the movie begins with him fishing trout with his dad in a beautiful setting with Rocky Mountains as a backdrop. They are close, they are having fun, but a horrific crash on the way home results in the death of his father. This is necessary to set up the rest of the story, young Kale becoming depressed and under-performing in school. His Spanish teacher makes a comment about his dead dad, Kale decks him, and goes to court. He ends up with a 3 month home imprisonment with ankle monitor, and this allows him to spy on neighbors as a way to kill time.
Pretty Sarah Roemer as the 'hot' Ashley Carlson moves in next door, and to Kale's surprise she starts to hang out with him. They start spying together on a neighbor that Kale suspects is the killer of a lady in the news as missing.
Carrie-Anne Moss of Matrix 'Trinity' fame is his mom, Julie Brecht. Aaron Yoo is his funny Asian friend who gets involved too.
This movie is nowhere near the quality of Hitchcock's 'Rear Window' but for a modern horror movie is pretty well made and enjoyable.
BIG SPOILERS. David Morse is Robert Turner, the neighbor on the other side. He drives a blue 1960s Mustang with a dented left fender, as reported in the news as a suspected vehicle. As Kale spies on him, he sees things that lead him to believe that he is a serial killer of women. Now his mother is also in danger as she has become friends with Turner. In a complicated ending scenes, there is a secret part of Turner's house where Kale finds corpses and other evidence of his crimes. (I would imagine that it would have smelled pretty bad in there!) In a terrific fight in his house, Kale and Ashley manage to fight off Turner, find his mom in Turner's house, and when the police arrive Turner is dying in his own dungeon with shrub shears sticking into his chest. Pretty disturbing stuff.