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The House Next Door (2006 film)

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The House Next Door
Theatrical release poster
Based onThe House Next Door
by Anne Rivers Siddons
Written bySuzette Couture
Directed byJeff Woolnough
StarringMark-Paul Gosselaar
Lara Flynn Boyle
Colin Ferguson
Theme music composerMatt Zoller Seitz
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Wendy Grean
  • Philip K. Kleinbart
  • Noelle Volpintesta
CinematographyDavid Herrington
EditorMike Lee
Running time86 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Release
  • October 30, 2006 (2006-10-30)

The House Next Door is a 2006 Lifetime Television film, directed by Jeff Woolnough and starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Lara Flynn Boyle and Colin Ferguson.[1] The film is based on the novel of the same name by Anne Rivers Siddons

Plot

The peaceful and happy life of Walker and Col Kennedy is interrupted when Kim, a brilliant and attractive male architect, builds a dream house next to theirs. All the people who move into the house turn evil or end up having "accidents" and unexplainable deaths. They realize that the house targets their fears and feeds off of them until it drives them insane. In the end, the Kennedys succeed in destroying the house, killing the architect in the process. In the final scene another couple is seen eyeing a new house identical to the old one. This is the greatest departure from the novel, in which the Kennedys kill the architect before trying to destroy the house – in the epilogue it is revealed that they themselves lost their lives and the house is still intact.

Cast

Release

The film premiered on 30 October 2006 at Lifetime in the United States[2] and was released of DVD in Germany on 29 May 2007.[3]

Awards

Niamh Wilson was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for a Young Artist Award.[4]

Critical reception

The House Next Door was seen as "uninspired" by critics.[5] It currently holds a 27% "rotten" rating on RottenTomatoes.com[6]

References