Noah takes Claire to a barn house where he has tied up Garrett and Kevin, threatening to kill them unless Claire stays with him. Noah pours kerosene around the barn, causing it to ignite in flames. Garrett frees himself and attempts to choke Noah with a rope, prompting Noah to shoot him in the chest.
Claire stabs Noah's eye with Kevin's EpiPen. Noah removes the EpiPen from his eye and blindly attempts to strangle Claire to death. When he holds Kevin at gunpoint, she pulls a lever that drops an engine on Noah, killing him. Claire and Kevin then help a wounded Garrett exit the burning barn house as police and paramedics arrive.
Screenwriter Barbara Curry, who was a criminal lawyer for ten years, revealed that she developed the script's concept after running past a house which she described as her 'dream house'. A 'bad boy' her son went to school with resided in the house across the street, which gave her a 'really interesting' concept about a neighborhood boy creating conflict and 'driving a wedge between a family'.
This served as her inspiration for the screenplay. Curry stated that the 'first few drafts of [the movie] focused on a year-old boy and a mother's trial of trying to get her son out of this boy's clutches, and gradually, it became something else'.
They can understand making a mistake in a moment like that. The Boy Next Door ' s plot has been compared to the thriller films Basic Instinct and Swimfan , [5] [8] while being dubbed 'the Fatal Attraction of '. Director Rob Cohen stated that with the film, he wanted to 'reinvent the genre in an entertaining way' that would reflect ', not '.
Lopez, who also served as producer on the film, chose a fellow Latino actor Guzman to cast in the film, stating that 'two Latinos opening in a mainstream movie, if it does well, that's gonna change things. I would love for the Latino community to come out and support this movie because it would give us the freedom.
That's what I love about this film. We're breaking down the walls and stereotypes. On his approach, Cohen said that he refused to consider making the film PG 'The first thing I said was, 'If you want me, I'm making an R-rated movie.
I don't want to deal with sex and make it, like, for year-olds. We all shared one trailer, we had no craft service, it wasn't that type of luxury movie set, let's say. That was the first time we did that, but it was very liberating as an artist because it made me realize I can make whatever movie I want like this. We had to choreograph every piece It was the most unsexy-really-sexy scene that you'll see on screen.
The film's main demographic is women and Latinos. She hoped that the film would appeal to Hispanic markets, due to featuring two Hispanic leads, which she stated might not have been possible if a big studio had produced it.
Measuring the film's pros and cons, Boxoffice magazine said that the film's social media activity online and Lopez's pull with Latino audiences would help it. However, the publication said that Lopez's box office drawing power had been dwindling, which worked against the film. The film was released on January 23, The film's UK distributors, also Universal Studios, chose to remove two seconds of material, the eye gouging scene, in order to obtain a There is an rated version available.
The Boy Next Door received generally negative reviews from film critics, who felt that it promised 'campy thrills' but did not deliver. The site's consensus reads: ' The Boy Next Door may get a few howls out of fans of stalker thrillers, but for most viewers, it won't even rise to 'so bad it's good' status.
Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle , Thomas Lee wrote: 'Why Lopez decided to do this inept, cliche-infested film is anyone's guess'.
Richard Lawson from Vanity Fair wrote: 'Given the material, Lopez is actually pretty darn good in the movie, taking it seriously enough that it's not irksomely arch camp, but also plenty aware that she's not doing Shakespeare. She's a joy to watch throughout. This item will only be visible in searches to you, your friends, and admins. Steam Artwork. View all artwork. This item has been added to your Favorites. Watch The Boy Next Door online free Watch The Boy Next Door online for free - Bilbo and Company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and Created by.
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