Disturbia [Blu-ray]

Director: D.J. Caruso, DJ Caruso D.J. Caruso

Overview

Salton Sea director D.J. Caruso travels from the shore to the suburbs for this suspenseful tale of a high-school senior who suspects that his neighbor is a notorious serial killer. Kale (Shia LaBeouf) is a high-school senior who has yet to come to terms with the fact that his father is gone, the tragic victim of a fatal accident. As Kale's mother (Carrie-Anne Moss) struggles to pay the bills by picking up extra shifts at work, her son's behavior grows increasingly erratic. When an altercation at school finds Kale placed under court-ordered house arrest, the homebound student teams with newly arrived girl-next-door Ashley (Sarah Roemer) to investigate the suspicious neighbor (David Morse) whom Kale believes to be an elusive and wanted serial killer. Their attentions focused intensely on the man they believe to be a murderous maniac hiding in broad daylight, Kale and Ashley trespass down a dangerous path while attempting to discern whether his suspicions are grounded in fact or just a combination of deep depression and suffocating cabin fever.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/01/2017
UPC:	0032429279118
Original Release:	2007
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:44:00
Sales rank:	16,680

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Shia LaBeouf	Kale
Carrie-Anne Moss	Julie,Actor
David Morse	Mr. Turner
Sarah Roemer	Ashley
Aaron Yoo	Ronnie
Jose Pablo Cantillo	Officer Gutierrez
Matt Craven	Daniel Brecht
Viola Davis	Detective Parker
Elyse Mirto	Mrs. Carlson
Brandon Caruso	Greenwood Boy No. 1,Greenwood Boy No. 2,Greenwood Boy No. 3
Kevin Quinn	Mr. Carlson
Amanda Walsh	Minnie Tyco
Charles Carroll	Judge
Gillian Shure	Turner's Club Girl
Cindy Lou Adkins	Mrs. Greenwood
Suzanne Rico	News Anchor No. 1
Kent Shocknek	News Anchor No. 2
Rene Rivera	Senor Gutierrez
Dominic Daniel	Policeman
Lisa Tobin	Big Wheel Mom
Kurt David Anderson	Courier
Larry Varanelli	Police Officer
Luciano Rauso	Greenwood Boy
Clayton Mattingly	Boy on Big Wheel
Brittani Cox	Ashleys house party guest
Angela Storm	Linda house maid in window
Suzanne LaChasse	Party Girl
Cindy Lou Adtkins	Mrs Greenwood
Bruce Fowler	Conductor,Composer
Cathy Immordino	Actor
Geoff Zanelli	Composer

Technical Credits

Carl Ellsworth

Christopher Landon

D.J. Caruso	Director,Director
Carl Ellsworth	Screenwriter
Christopher Landon	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Jackie Marcus	Producer
Joe Medjuck	Producer
E. Bennett Walsh	Producer
Mary Tricia Wood	Casting
Jennifer L. Smith	Casting
Deborah Aquila	Casting
Mark Freund	Special Effects
Manny Perry	Stunts
Ivan Reitman	Producer,Executive Producer
Jackie Marcus Schaffer	Producer
Michael Bogen	Special Effects
Michael Babcock	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Adam Blantz	Sound Effects
Carmen Flores De Tanis	Sound Effects
Kevin Globerman	Sound Effects
Tom Hartig	Sound Effects
Gregory J. Barnett	Stunts
Tom Pollock	Executive Producer,Producer
Mark Ulano	Sound/Sound Designer
Steven Spielberg	Producer

Editorial Reviews

As one of Alfred Hitchcock's best films and most delicious concepts, Rear Window has been primed for a modern reworking, beyond what it got when Christopher Reeve played the lead in a straightforward 1998 remake. Disturbia at first promises to be that satisfying update of the story, as the housebound protagonist swaps his wheelchair for an ankle bracelet, which will summon police cars if he strays beyond a certain radius. Everything about this setup works, from the whimsical notion that a home is anything but a prison for a teenager with Sony PlayStation to an opening that sets the events in motion with powerful immediacy. Shia LaBeouf's gifts of naturalism are on full display, reinforcing why he's considered one of the most promising leading men of his generation, and was cast in a succession of Hollywood's most anticipated summer blockbusters. But problems surface with the arrival of David Morse's nefarious neighbor, whose late-night activities look anything but wholesome through LaBeouf's binoculars. It's not that Morse doesn't have Raymond Burr's eerie presence -- in fact, Morse is capable of a chilling deadness that makes him quite an effective villain. The problem is that his behavior sabotages the credibility the rest of the film has worked to establish. Not only is he creepy in a way that would tip off anybody, but his crimes are executed with a total lack of shrewdness -- full of wild, murderous gesticulations in front of open windows. Perhaps that's the only way LaBeouf's Kale Brecht can witness them, but this was less problematic in Hitchcock's day, when audiences didn't have the sophisticated forensic understanding of the criminal mind that today's viewers have absorbed almost by osmosis. Disturbia has a basic tautness and some decent set pieces, but not surprisingly, it falls well short of the Rear Window standard.