The Boy Next Door (2015) I thought this movie had a very questionable story also predictable, i have seen many movies with the same story so when your watching it you kind of know whats coming, don't get me wrong still a good movie that gets you on edge throughout.

THE BOY NEXT DOOR is a very predictable example of the psycho-thriller genre with worse and more generic scripting than something like DISTURBIA. It suffers hugely from having Jennifer Lopez as the miscast lead, because she fails to invest her character with any particular personality or wit, and she's entirely unsympathetic to boot. There were only two scenes in the whole film I liked, and the blind date is one of them, but the rest is just ho-hum. As the story's antagonist, Ryan Guzman is laughably out of his depth and entirely unimposing, as well as qualifying for one of the oldest supposed teenagers I've ever seen. The story plays out slowly and predictability, nothing that hasn't been done before, and only picking up in the last ten minutes for a cliched but amusingly violent showdown.

Noah would have been put in handcuffs and sent in jail for beating up the student and hitting the vice principal in any real school. But then the movie would have ended there. A teacher does not confront an out of control student like Noah without calling the police. No violent student like Noah would be allowed to stay in school. Lame plot.

I'm not usually someone who goes for thriller style films and I may never watch one again after this. Please don't watch this. Choose another decent thriller or watch Fatal Attraction again for a decent version of what this is attempting to be.It started well albeit predictably. And I generally like Jennifer Lopez & Kristen Chenoweth so thought I was in safe hands. But as others say, the lad next door goes from being understandably appealing to a near-divorcée, to a complete and utter maniac in a matter of seconds. He claims he loves her and then does a set of weird things to upset, damage her career, kill her husband and son and so it gets crazier until the final scene which is just plain silly. Her response from the beginning considering he is 19 and therefore over the age of consent is downright ridiculous. Of course, she must be careful being an older woman but all she had to do was pick up the phone and report her worries to the police. I guess that would have been a pretty boring and short film though. Still better than what it became.I'm actually still trying to get the moment where she finally stops him out of my head which is pretty annoying when that part of my memory could be used for something so much better.