Disturbia [blu-Ray]

Thriller

Shia LaBeouf	Kale
Sarah Roemer	Ashley
Carrie-Anne Moss	Julie
David Morse	Mr. Turner
Aaron Yoo	Ronnie
Jose Pablo Cantillo	Officer Gutierrez
Matt Craven	Daniel Brecht
Viola Davis	Detective Parker
Brandon Caruso	Greenwood Boy #1
Luciano Rauso	Greenwood Boy #2
Rene Rivera

Director	D.J. Caruso; Christopher B. Landon
Producer	Jackie Marcus; Joe Medjuck; Ashley Brucks; Jeremy Kramer; Ivan Reitman
Writer	Carl Ellsworth; Christopher Landon; Christopher B. Landon
Cinematography	Rogier Stoffers
Musician	Geoff Zanelli

Alfred Hitchcock fans may experience déjà vu upon exposure to this voyeuristic thriller. That's because director DJ Caruso (The Salton Sea) and co-writer Carl Ellsworth (Red Eye) use Rear Window as a jumping-off point before cherry-picking from more recent scare fare, like The Blair Witch Project. In the prologue, 17-year-old Kale (Shia LaBeouf, Holes) loses his beloved father to a car crash. A year passes, and he's still on edge. When a teacher makes a careless remark about his dad, Kale punches him out, and is sentenced to house arrest. After his mom (Carrie-Anne Moss, Memento) takes away his Xbox and iTunes privileges, the suburban slacker spies on his neighbors to pass the time. In the process, he develops a crush on Ashley (Sarah Roemer, The Grudge 2), the hot girl next door, and becomes convinced that another, the soft-spoken Mr. Turner (David Morse, The Green Mile), is a serial killer. With the help of the flirtatious Ashley, practical joke-playing pal Ronnie (Aaron Yoo), and an array of high-tech gadgets, like cell-phone cameras and digital camcorders, Kale sets out to solve a major case without leaving his yard (a feat that would prove more challenging for a less affluent sleuth). In the end, it's pretty familiar stuff, but there are plenty of scares once Turner realizes he's being watched, and rising star LaBeouf, who next appears in Michael Bay's Transformers, makes for an engaging leading man--despite his character's propensity for slugging Spanish instructors. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Beyond Disturbia

Why We Love Shia LaBeouf

The Soundtrack

Rear Window

Stills from Disturbia (click for larger image)