Saturday, January 10, 2009

The Girl Next Door


This was a bizarre movie. And creepy. And gross. And based on a true story which makes all that worse.
Set in 1958, it follows the harrowing story of two adolescent girls who upon losing their parents in an accident are sent to live with their Aunt Ruth, a sadistic psychopath. Unbeknownst to the residents of the small New Jersey suburb, the girls endure unthinkable punishment at the hands of their aunt and three cousins.
Now this movie is based on Jack Ketchum's book, which is based on the true story but is not told exactly how it happened. There is another movie called An American Crime which more closely follows the actual events.

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