The Good Neighbour

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  • Hidden Motives Run Amok
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  • Perspective and Haunted Memory
  • Movies in Theaters
  • The Good Neighbor
  • THE GOOD NEIGHBOR: Hidden Secrets & Haunted Truths

    • Its main focus is distorting perception, just as our own perceptions of the people in our neighbourhood might be skewed. Following two young men — Ethan Logan Miller and Sean Keir Gilchrist — the film concerns their social experiment of spying on a mysterious, older neighbour named Harold Grainey James Caan. Using advanced technology and an elaborate computer setup, their plan is to watch Grainey and slowly try convincing him that his house is haunted.

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    The Haunting of Hill House. I'm sure Rear Window is available cheap on Amazon, so buy that instead. Christopher Clausi as Court Attendee. Ruben Gutierrez as Juror. Using advanced technology and an elaborate computer setup, their plan is to watch Grainey and slowly try convincing him that his house is haunted.

    Except, their plan is marred by false judgements and secrets, which threaten the safety of everyone involved. The screenplay by Mark Bianculli and Jeff Richard examines memory by constantly diverting exposition. As Ethan and Sean do surveillance on Grainey, we are never privy to any more information than they see.

    Sometimes, not even that. Farahani defers viewer satisfaction by going from scenes of Ethan and Sean in front of their computers keeping an eye on Grainey, to courtroom scenes warning us of a horrific resolution to the social experiment. Partway through, we come to discover that Ethan has an entirely different reason for wanting to haunt Harold Grainey.

    Representative of real life, Ethan harbours negative perceptions of his neighbour, which cloud his judgement fatally. But Ethan and Sean are close friends who ought to know one another well. Coupled with the finale, Ethan proves that we never truly know anybody; not our closest friends, and certainly not the old man across the street.

    Ethan hides his true motives for keeping an eye on Grainey from Sean. Moreover, neither Sean nor Ethan know anything about his personal life. This makes the fake hauntings feel real for the old man. Inadvertently, the young men tap into his worst memories. The results are devastating. Afterward, we unravel the mystery of appearance until the reality of his character is laid bare.

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    The social experiment Ethan and Sean undertake is not meant to hurt anybody, which is usually the excuse of anybody caught negatively affecting the lives of others, such as they do to Grainey. Voyeurism for Farahani is not a window into the lives of others; it is a window into the voyeur. It connotes the fact that one character is indeed morally good. Specifically, the character of Ethan projects his ideas about Grainey onto the old man to the point where it becomes dangerous.

    You may discover things about yourself or your friends in the process.

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    When Ethan and Sean made the decision to fake a haunting, they never once took into account that Grainey, like any regular person, may have already been haunted by the pain of his own memories. Have you ever found yourself judging someone harshly only to discover you were completely wrong about them? Has anyone ever judged you in the same way? Because, realistically speaking, up until the ending, this was a perfectly decently made movie.

    Ethan as a character may have been a massive dick, but there was nothing terribly offensive in the movie. It does kinda hold your interest and the reveal that Grainey wasn't, in fact, the monster that Sean and Ethan believed him to be was well-done. But the fact that it ends up like one of those shitty Lifetime TV movies based on a real crime, or inspired by one, really did hurt it a lot. It actually brought the rating down, at least to me. Maybe I'm overreacting, but I did think that the ending hurt the movie a whole lot. James Caan is great here, but he's not around enough to make much of an actual impact in the film's overall quality.

    And that's a shame, really. I can't complain much since I watched it on Netflix, but it's not a good movie.

    I'm sure Rear Window is available cheap on Amazon, so buy that instead. This is an average film made into a below average one due to its heavy-handed ending. I remember watching the trailer for this and thought this could be a decent thriller. This is utter rubbish. Let's start off with the good, James Caan.

    That, unfortunately, is where the good points end. The teenagers were stupid, the script was tedious, the camera shots bordered on unimaginative and the whole premise was a massive letdown.

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    This is what I spent the whole film thinking about, and it's still driving me nuts. What does "DEN" mean!? Ugh, enough about that. The 'paranormal' pranks looked extremely fake and pretty sure anyone who would've experienced it could figure it out straight away. The teenagers were ridiculously stupid, so stupid that one of them carries a gun to the neighbour's house just to pick up a fallen camera. I mean that's alot of watching. I should've known this film was utter tripe when the production company was Vertical Entertainment, check their filmography out because I can guarantee all the films are awful.

    Perspective and Haunted Memory

    The Good Neighbor is a American thriller film directed by Kasra Farahani and written by Mark Bianculli and Jeff Richard. The film stars James Caan, Logan . A pair of mischievous high school kids create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting elderly neighbor while keeping his every reaction under surveillance.

    Overall, The Good Neighbour was boring, uneventful, a snooze fest, tedious, dull, stupid and a god damn waste of my time Can't say that everyone will like this but I really enjoyed it. More Top Movies Trailers Forums. Season 7 Black Lightning: Season 2 DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 4 Doctor Who: Season 11 The Flash: Season 5 This Is Us: Season 3 Saturday Night Live: Season 4 The Walking Dead: Renewed and Cancelled TV Shows View All Videos 1.

    View All Photos 7. A pair of mischievous high school kids Keir Gilchrist and Logan Miller create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor James Caan. While keeping his every reaction under surveillance, they see much more than they bargained for. Jeff Richard , Mark Bianculli. James Caan as Harold Grainey. Keir Gilchrist as Sean. Logan Miller as Ethan. Edwin Hodge as Officer Palmer. Laura Innes as Caroline.

    Mindy Sterling as Mae. Anne Dudek as Elise. Bailey Noble as Carly.

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    Lili Reinhart as Ashley. Nik Dodani as Sanjay. Tamlyn Tomita as Heather Cromwell. Dean Cameron as Defense Attorney. William Charles Mitchell as Judge. Billy Khoury as Neighbor. Ted King as Sean's Father.

    The Good Neighbor

    Luke Spencer Roberts as Ted Spiegelman. Elyse Dinh as Reporter 1. Hannah Elise Pilkington as Reporter 3. Francesca Baer as Young Woman. Ragnhild Bjoerge as Paparazzi. Leonel Claude as Court Attendee. Christopher Clausi as Court Attendee. Joshua Elizondo as Partygoer. Tonya Guadalupe as Court Attendee.

    Ruben Gutierrez as Juror. Fred Huguez as Jury Member. Joey Hartstone as Juror.

    THE GOOD NEIGHBOR: Hidden Secrets & Haunted Truths

    Kimbrey Jones as Jury Member. Arcola Kyle as Juror. Kyle Mosonyi as Court Attendee.