Mark Kermode, Observer film critic 

The Boy Next Door review – the neighbour from hell

Jennifer Lopez is stalked by the man next door in an exploitative thriller destined for a B-movie TV slot
  
  

'Beefcake neighbour': Ryan Guzman plays the baddie.
'Beefcake neighbour': Ryan Guzman plays the baddie. Photograph: /PR

Making a brief stop in cinemas before finding its natural home on DVD, this profitably cheap B-movie exploiter pits Jennifer Lopez’s all-but-single mum against beefcakey neighbour Ryan Guzman, who first seduces and then stalks her, with predictably generic results. Trimmed of a fleeting eye-gouging close-up that would have pushed it into 18 territory, this remains solidly MOR fare that should be propping up Channel 5’s Friday night schedule sometime very soon.

 

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