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LVIII: Disturbia (D.J. Caruso, 2007)
The last time Shia LaBeouf was up before a judge he was sent to Camp Green Lake and discovered his family's long lost wealth. Now, as Kale, he is sentenced to house arrest and electronically tagged. The stage is set for Hughes directs Hitchcock or Teen Window. Obviously he spies on his attractive teen female neighbour (Sarah Roemer), but also his creepy neighbour, Mr Turner (David Morse) who he is convinced is a murderer. If Kale leaves his house, the police come round - which could condemn him to a jail sentence or save his life.
Rear Window only once shows us what Jimmie Stewart doesn't see (he falls asleep) with his back to the apartments opposite but this films takes us beyond Kale's house to other locations, stopping the full sense of claustrophobia. Otherwise the film barely puts a foot wrong, and even the opening two sequences feel like the kind of wrong footing that Hitchcock did in, say, Psycho: no it's not about that. The soundtrack alludes to Herrmann on more than one occasion.
Oops, I didn't recognise Carrie-Anne Moss as his mother, and production designer Tom Southwell worked on Blade Runner. There is no escape. LaBeouf went from this (via Transformers) to Indiana Jones, and shifted from being a teen to being a man - of course Spielberg in behind this film as it comes from Dreamworks.
Totals: 58 (Cinema: 21; DVD: 35; TV: 2)
The last time Shia LaBeouf was up before a judge he was sent to Camp Green Lake and discovered his family's long lost wealth. Now, as Kale, he is sentenced to house arrest and electronically tagged. The stage is set for Hughes directs Hitchcock or Teen Window. Obviously he spies on his attractive teen female neighbour (Sarah Roemer), but also his creepy neighbour, Mr Turner (David Morse) who he is convinced is a murderer. If Kale leaves his house, the police come round - which could condemn him to a jail sentence or save his life.
Rear Window only once shows us what Jimmie Stewart doesn't see (he falls asleep) with his back to the apartments opposite but this films takes us beyond Kale's house to other locations, stopping the full sense of claustrophobia. Otherwise the film barely puts a foot wrong, and even the opening two sequences feel like the kind of wrong footing that Hitchcock did in, say, Psycho: no it's not about that. The soundtrack alludes to Herrmann on more than one occasion.
Oops, I didn't recognise Carrie-Anne Moss as his mother, and production designer Tom Southwell worked on Blade Runner. There is no escape. LaBeouf went from this (via Transformers) to Indiana Jones, and shifted from being a teen to being a man - of course Spielberg in behind this film as it comes from Dreamworks.
Totals: 58 (Cinema: 21; DVD: 35; TV: 2)
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