callanvass I'm still scratching my head as to what the point of this movie was? I got what it was trying to sell. Life is very frustrating, and people can be downright callous around you, but that doesn't mean it wasn't pointless in the long run. After the chilling opening with a narrator giving us some info on past serial killers with a creepy musical score, I was ready to dig in and go along with the ride, but what followed was a depressing disappointment. What was the background of Roy & Bo? We get very little insight as to what has made these guys snap, other than a difficult few years in High School, and parents who have neglected them. Most of the movie forces you to follow Roy & Bo around Los Angeles with a pointless killing spree. Despite top billing, Charlie Sheen is not the main star. He shares top billing with Maxwell Caulfield. The main problem I had was with Roy (Maxwell Caulfield) He is a whiny, unsympathetic person who I was begging to see get his. The movie tried to portray him as a sociopath with a screw the world type attitude, but instead they made him into an annoying loser. I think the world sucks some days, but am I suddenly gonna turn into a killer? Get real. Charlie Sheen is a little more bearable. He's a miserable soul himself, but not quite as bad as Roy is. We also get slightly obsolete terms such as "Fag" the gay subtext can't be denied, and stuff you would never see in movies today. An old lady gets drilled in the head and cut open with a beer bottle. It tries way too hard to be offensive, and in the end I just didn't care. We also get some idiotic symbolism at the end that ties in with the beginning of the film, but I was just glad it was over. Final Thoughts: It's one of Charlie Sheen's first movies. It's far from his worst, but still. It's not a very good movie. It tries to be something memorable, and instead becomes forgettable. Teenage agnst is tough, but I don't see why anyone would wanna spend time with these guys. Not really recommended4/10

PeterMitchell-506-564364 Alienation is a terrible thing, it's consequences can sometimes be deadly, as this movie shows. Good looking teens, Caulfield and Sheen, each other's best friend, are shunned by their school peers, (Caulfield, not only his peers) for what reason, I don't know. Desperate for attention, as shown in one of the prior scenes, they're even excluded from a graduation party, they crash anyway. Yeeeeaah, power to them. Snobs. If you were one on the alienated, you'll identify perfectly with this movie, all too well. The repulsed and hostile looks they endure plus all the other crap they take. So they must vent, where they finally graduate to murder, as they take a trip to L.A, and start to kill people at random. That's after dognapping, and beating an Iranian gas station attendant half to death, who was trying to rip them off. You get as good as you give. Oh, and lobbing a beer bottle in the air, hitting an old woman in the head, that's succeeded by two bikini clad women chasing after them, one of who'm is thrown off of Caulfield's car, her friend yelling after them, "Queers". Charlie Sheen, I don't think so. On it's first view you will find certain parts of this movie disturbing, but this is an engrossing one too. One teen drama with flavor, it's final scene of Sheen in slo-mo, haunting. Bits of it might cut too deep, if you're one of the ignored, as it is pretty much a reality movie. And remember this is from the director of the Wayne's World movies. What a change of pace. It starts off great, with photos of infamous serial killers, their real voices attached. This is a movie I urge teens to watch, if any movie. Sheen does well, handsome devil he is, playing to his father's Badlands, exuding just that really small amount of creepiness that he balances well. A real humanistic and quite scary performance, one that hooked me. But it's Caulfield who's the more dangerous of the two, a character who's past the point of no return, inundated with rage, hate, and bitterness, a chilling scene of him in close up at that party, parked down on the ground, chewing his nail, contemplating, watching a sole girl off, watching him. She averts his eyes, repulsed, and a little scared. That's just before he jumps in the pool and turns it pink. Movie's also known as No Apparent Motive. I thoroughly recommend this.

Foreverisacastironmess From the start and most of the way through this movie kinda feels like one of those 80's buddy comedy/action flicks, and then thinks it can go back to that after nasty shocking violence. I mean, You've got the boys piggishly chanting "Debbie does Greek!" and a poodle named Boner, right next to some of the worst movie violence ever seen, and I don't think they at all got the balance right-this didn't strike me as a type of movie that should have had any humour in it at all. And the bit when the old lady gets hit with the beer bottle has got to be the cheapest laugh ever committed to celluloid! I felt that the pace was very straightforward and kinda dull, but then it would flare up, if you will, when the violent murders happened, then go back to being average. Accept at the end. After the final murder the film thankfully has an energy that carries it straight to the end. The movie's got a couple of really corny but funny lines, my favourite one is when a gal yells at the boys to "eat her f**k!" What the hell was that?! Awesome! Charlie Sheen. Too cool for school. But that's all he does, try to look cool, spout cheesy-ass lines, and throughout wear a stupid permanent thoughtful frown. And he looked so gay with that stupid Topgun haircut! I can't believe I used to think he looked cute! He looks and acts like the arrogant Hollywood brat I'm sure he was at that point. He had none of the presence that Caulfield did. I think that it would have been a very different and far better movie had someone else played Bo. Someone who wasn't Charlie Sheen. Because I feel that Chuck brought the movie down big time. In fact, for me he almost totally ruins it. The movie would have worked better if Chuckers had done a better job of appearing more shocked and traumatised by the killings. Because at the end, when Bo confronts Roy, it felt very sudden to me. Aside from a few half-arsed mutterings by Sheen, there really is no strong build up to that. Annoying! I don't like it when Bo says at the end that he thinks he's going to go home and move on. Like he has a right to. I lost any sympathy for the character when he joins in the murder of the unfortunate gay guy. It's kinda funny at the end: crazy Charlie Sheen getting dragged downtown by the cops!!! The irony! It's eerie, isn't it? The way it echoes his modern times! There's an impressive intro sequence, with images of serial killers, and parts of speeches from serial killers, but I'm not sure if it's really them. It's kind of misleading, as it gives the impression that the movie is going to be one as shocking as, say, Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer. And although it is indeed shocking and violent, it comes nowhere near the bleak nightmarishness of that great film. To me the most sickening bit in the movie is when the poor hippie chick gets shaken to death for absolutely nothing. Truly horrific. I thought Maxwell Caulfield was brilliant as the deceptively handsome, blue-eyed mass murdering thug Roy. He's really terrifying as a brawny bully stuck in a rut. There's not much you can say about the character really. He's big, he's mean, he's bitter, he's twisted. That's about it. Always scowling, always trying to bring anything bigger than himself down to his level. There's nothing sympathetic about him. There's a creepy scene early on where he is eyeing a couple at a party with this evil cold glint in his eye. Again, all the more frightening because it's coming from a pair of strikingly beautiful blue eyes. There are two little scenes that are supposed to give insight into his bleak world. One is where it shows Roy's home, the other is way later when he tries miserably to read. They both felt a bit quick and stuck in there to me, but they are both really funny though. I believe that when he gets shot down like the mad dog he is, that just maybe, that was what he really wanted...Despite how brutal and foul Roy is, he's the dark heart and soul of this movie. Imagine if someone as bad as Sheen was had played Roy. Not a pretty picture. Very violent to say it was directed by a woman. Not to say women can't make violent movies,(why would they want to?) but I was surprised that a lady directed this one in particular. But reading about some of the things that have happened in the life of the director, I could see where the movie's dark intensity could have come from. Penelope Spheeris herself is shocked by the film, saying that she would never make such a violent picture today. I think they were trying to make a movie with some great social commentary about young killers, but for me when it's over it really feels like it just fails in that way. It's still a very gripping and disturbing thriller. however. Even if, perhaps, the only "great" about it is the violence itself.

kurrgan29 The Boys Next Door is everything that 80's teen movies are NOT - and that is why I loved it. It's very realistic and brutally honest in its portrayal of teens who are outcast from their peers, and the effects it has on them. Not to mention both characters come from broken homes where it appears no one pays attention to them - another major problem of kids growing up in the US from the 70's to the present. Charlie Sheen does a great job, but Maxwell Caulfield steals the show.This violence is extremely realistic and disturbing. But it has a point. The language is dead on too - this is the way kids talked in 1985.This movie touches on a side of American society that most would choose to ignore, and that's why it is so powerful. Don't believe the negative reviews. This is an excellent movie.