Rue-Morgue Magazine Features "Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door”
"Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door” is being featured in
this months issue of Rue-Morgue Magazine. The in-depth feature
includes interviews with director Gregory M. Wilson, leads
Blanche Baker and Blythe Auffarth, screenwriters Daniel Farrands
and Philip Nutman. You can purchase this issue at any local
magazine shop or at Barnes and Noble. Click
HERE
for full details on this issue.
"Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door” Special Edition
Novel Now Available
Due to the recent film adaptation of "Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door”
the original novel is being re-released in a special edition
format. The book will be available in both hardcover and
paperback editions and will also include a special bonus
interview with novelist Jack Ketchum. Click
HERE for full
details on the book and for purchasing.
"Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door” on DVD 12.4.07
"Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door” comes to DVD Tuesday
December 4th compliments of Starz Home Entertainment. Special
Features include two audio commentary tracks, one with director
Gregory M. Wilson, producer Andrew van den Houten, and
cinematographer/producer William M. Miller, the second with
novelist Jack Ketchum and screenwriters Daniel Farrands and
Philip Nutman. Also included is a Making-of featurette along
with cast and crew interviews. Click
HERE for full DVD specs and purchasing.
Stephen King Loves The
Girl Next Door
- A quote from the master of horror
himself -
"The first
authentically shocking American film I've seen since Henry:
Portrait of a Serial Killer over 20 years ago. If you are easily
disturbed, you should not watch this movie. If, on the other
hand, you are prepared for a long look into hell, suburban
style, The Girl Next Door will not disappoint.
This is the dark-side-of-the-moon version of Stand By Me." - Stephen King
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Why these scenes are tough to watch may be why I
think the film “works.” I’m a critic at a horror site, folks. I
see depravity, murder and hateful bloodletting on a seemingly
weekly basis. But JACK KETCHUM’S THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is the only
film I’ve seen in my brief tenure that views torture and
denigration as an act of cruelty and human waste. Not the cheeky
sideshow that the Eli Roths of the world would have you believe
it is. After viewing movies like CAPTIVITY and HOSTEL (Read
Royce’s Hostel II Review Here), I wanted a movie that had the
guts to deal with torture.
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Read full review...
New Review from
BloodyDisgusting.com
Think you know pain? You don’t know shit. Sylvia
Likens knew pain. In 1958 she was locked in the basement of her
foster home, and tortured for weeks and weeks, until she was
dead. She was starved, denied the use of a bathroom, forced to
eat her own excrements, raped, and beaten by the kids of the
neighborhood. Her foster family would invite kids over from the
neighborhood to drink beers, smoke cigarettes, burn and
penetrate a tied up 13 year old girl in the cellar, as long as
they didn’t tell anyone. It went on for around three months,
until poor Sylvia Likens died.
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Read full review...
New Review from
HouseofHorror.com
You ever see that Stephen King flick - Stand By
Me? I just spent two hours with some kids just like the ones in
that film. The only thing is, instead of taking a walk down the
tracks and checkin out a dead body, I watched them rape and beat
the shit out of a young teenage girl! They made up their own
reasons, and beat and bruised and broke and burned and defiled
and cut her until she was dead. She was only 15 or 16. She never
did anything wrong to deserve it. But they stripped her naked,
burned words into her - she was tied up in a basement and all
the kids in the neighborhood came over and did whatever they
wanted!
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Read full review...
KillerReviews.com
Interviews Blythe Auffarth
"Playing Meg was a
challenge, in that I was asked to visit the “basement” of my
being everyday…deep, dark and dripping with vulnerability.
Having to imagine and experience some of the most ghastly crimes
you could commit against an individual was a daunting
undertaking. And how did I make it through two weeks in the
basement? I owe it to a healthy and supportive family, a
professional and sensitive cast and crew, and an easily accessed
emotional life developed through years of working and training
as an actor." -
Read full interview...
Horroryearbook.com
Interviews Producer Andrew van den Houten
"The book’s powerful commentary on child abuse
was unnerving and so real I couldn’t pass on the chance of
bringing it to the big screen. Jack Ketchum’s writing seeps its
way into ones cranium. He finds the cerebral wavelength and sits
there letting his words penetrate. I find his craft in telling
stories to be so engaging I am anxious to read more of his work
and do another film based on one of his novels in the near
future." -
Read full interview...
KillerReviews.com
Interviews Writer Jack Ketchum
"I don't know if I get attached to
my characters exactly but maybe they get attached to me
-- because I do tend to think of them from time to time
almost the way you'd occasionally think of somebody you
know pretty well in real life but haven't seen for quite
some time. The best-realized of them do seem to have a
life in my subconscious that extends beyond the pages of
the books. Never thought about this before. Kinda weird.
And now I'm wondering if other authors have had the same
experience." -
Read full interview...
Official Poster Now Available
The poster art for Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door has
been finalized and is available to order. They're $15 bucks a pieces (not including shipping) and
an additional $15 if you want the poster mounted. To
order you can either email the request to
Sales@UnitedGraphics.ca or call (403) 248-9292 and
ask to speak with Victor. If you are emailing an order
please include "GIRL NEXT DOOR POSTER ORDER" in the
subject line and the quantity you want. -
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