They have a steamy one-night stand, but when she insists that it must never happen again, Noah turns psychotic.
So, it’s a role-reversal Fatal Attraction, which is not in itself a bad thing, but so preposterously written (hands up, Barbara Curry), that it’s impossible to believe in from start to blood-spattered finish.
An absolute scream... shame it's supposed to be a tense psychological thriller!
Rob Cohen's The Boy Next Door is an absolute scream. Unfortunately, it’s not meant to be. It is billed as a psychological thriller, in which Jennifer Lopez (also credited as producer) plays Claire Peterson, a classics teacher still coming to terms with her husband’s infidelity.
Then a charming young hunk called Noah (Ryan Guzman) moves in next door, befriends her son Kevin (Ian Nelson), and finally bewitches her by declaring a love for Homer and giving her a copy of The Iliad which doesn’t look the best part of 3,000 years old but must be, because it’s ‘a first edition’.
They have a steamy one-night stand, but when she insists that it must never happen again, Noah turns psychotic.
So, it’s a role-reversal Fatal Attraction, which is not in itself a bad thing, but so preposterously written (hands up, Barbara Curry), that it’s impossible to believe in from start to blood-spattered finish.
They have a steamy one-night stand, but when she insists that it must never happen again, Noah turns psychotic.
So, it’s a role-reversal Fatal Attraction, which is not in itself a bad thing, but so preposterously written (hands up, Barbara Curry), that it’s impossible to believe in from start to blood-spattered finish.