Watching this makes you wanna curl inside yourself and cry like a child, or scream and go on a rampage. I'm a grown man, and I had to continuously remind myself that it was just a film and not real. There's barely any blood, and still - I have never, ever been more shocked and disturbed over a film. If you've ever thought a person could be cruel, abusive, and plain down right evil - The Girl Next Door will teach you that you haven't seen anything yet. That was what I wanted to do to the characters of this film (except the one protagonist of course). It's been a while since I felt the urge to scream, pick up the computer screen and bash it to pieces. The entire film is one long psychological torture, leaving the audience desperate, enraged, frustrated and helpless. This film squeezed my soul to the point of trauma. I've "survived" Martyrs, The Inside and Murder Set Pieces. I'm pretty experienced with the genre, and I don't scare or shock easily. FOX would see returned about $16.7M after theaters take their percentage of the gross - far less than their P&A spend and the theatrical receipts would not dent the budget.I consider myself a Horror freak. The overseas cume was $15,821,739 - bringing the worldwide total to $30.4 million. Overseas, The Girl Next Door pulled in weak numbers in most markets, where it grossed $753,011 in Australia, $3 million in the UK and $3.4 million from Spain was the strongest performance. After a steep 59.7% third weekend decline to $1,109,813 the film lost most of its theater count and flopped out of theaters with $14,589,444. Audiences were more kind than critics and gave the movie a solid B+ cinemascore, but it sank 54.1% the following weekend to $2,757,145. Reviews were mixed, leaning negative and The Girl Next Door opened way below expectations with a terrible $6,003,806 - placing #10 for the weekend and faring the worst out of the new openers. The Girl Next Door opened over the Easter weekend against a slew of flops - The Alamo, The Whole Ten Yards, Ella Enchanted and Johnson Family Vacation. In the end, what’s really funny is that - everyone knows this, no one is at fault - the marketing destroyed the movie.” We had worked with some of the best trailer editors. I got in there and I was trying to cut trailers too. The idea that they had to go out there and sell an R-rated movie about teenagers and about a kid falling in love with a porn star? They tried. Director Luke Greenfield said “ Our movie, there was such a challenge, because we’re at 20th Century Fox, which at the time was a very conservative studio. However the studio botched the marketing, with ads that alienated the core 18 – 30 year old male audience and instead peaked interest with young teenage girls, who could not even buy a ticket. With strong testing scores, Regency had high hopes that the sex comedy would be a major hit and FOX invested heavily for the US marketing campaign. Production went smooth, but numerous executives were nervous of some of the pic’s darker elements, but little changes were made after it tested well with preview audiences. After a miserable experience helming that garbage and much interference from the studio, Greenfield was offered The Girl Next Door by Peter Cramer. Wisely, Greenfield passed on that monstrosity, but quickly took a directing gig on the idiotic Rob Schneider vehicle The Animal. The Girl Next Door was a long in development project at New Regency and after executive Peter Cramer saw a short film by director Luke Greenfield, he offered him Freddy Got Fingered. New Regency fully financed The Girl Next Door for $21 million and Fox distributed the film in most markets. Cast: Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, Paul Dano. Written By: Stuart Blumberg, David Wagner, Brent Goldberg.
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