March 06, 2007

JACK KETCHUM'S THE GIRL NEXT DOOR - official website for the Gregory Wilson-directed movie

(Posted In Drama Film News Horror USA and Canada )

girl_next_door_web01.jpgThe official website for the Gregory Wilson-directed movie Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door is online, although at present it's just a home page. The movie has been rated 'R' by the Classification And Rating Administration (CARA) "for sadistic torture and sexual abuse, nudity, language and strong sexual dialogue - all involving children."

The screenplay for Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door was written by Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman, based on the novel The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. The movie's cast apparently includes Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche, Blanche Baker, Graham Patrick Martin, Benjamin Ross Kaplan, Austin Williams, Spenser Leigh, Michael Zegen, Dean Faulkenberry, Madeline Taylor, Catherine Mary Stuart, Grant Show, Kevin Chamberlin, and William Atherton.

Here's a description of Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door from the website of production company ModernCiné: "Based on the best-selling novel by Jack Ketchum, this film deals with the fictionalized account of the 1965 true story of Sylvia Likens's brutal torture, rape and abuse in the basement of a family member's Indiana home."

Those who are interested in Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door may also wish to read the Twitch articles on Hiromu Nakamura's Concrete (Konkurîto), Joel Bender's Karla, and Ulli Lommel's Killer Pickton.

Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door official website
ModernCiné: Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door

» Posted by The Gomorrahizer at March 6, 2007 06:20 AM
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Another film with Katherine Keener and Ellen Page, called "An American Crime", was made about this event and released to much notoriety at Sundance. Apparently, Keener didn't want to take the role as the genuinely psychotic mother who orchestrated this heinous event, but couldn't get the story out of her head after reading the script.

This post is the first I'd ever heard about the actual events and a few website hops later I'd learned more about human capacities for cruelty than I think I ever wanted to know. Just being aware of the story of Sylvia Likens might blacken my view of humanity in ways that only events like the Rwandan genocide did to me before, because in this case it wasn't about politics or anything greater than what was occurring to a 16 year old girl in a basement.

This poster makes me a little worried. I'll hold my comments for now, but I hope this won't be "Hostel: Indiana".

» Posted by Momo at March 8, 2007 03:58 AM

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