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| Charlie Sheen and Maxwell Caulfield in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 |
Penelope Spheeris, cult film director who has depicted the legendary Hollywood nightlife in both fictional and non-fictional vehicles, has an opening credit montage of various statewide serial killers, which is misleading for THE BOYS NEXT DOOR, more of a 1970's-stlye violent exploitation semi road movie made during the mid-80's...
Beginning with two friends who are not only far too old for high school, but way too perfect-looking to be ostracized outsiders: as Maxwell Caulfield and Charlie Sheen are older and younger Roy and Bo, who crash a post-graduation party, steal a rich kids' poodle, and take off to Los Angeles...
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| Charlie Sheen and Maxwell Caulfield in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR |
Where the more viciously/violently-prone Maxwell Caulfield begins killing... but hardly in the fashion of the serial/spree killers the movie's prelude's based on...
Ranging from disagreeing with a gas station worker, coveting perfect looking couples that always includes a gorgeous blonde, or in the most intense scene involving a gay bar pickup leading to a high class swing pad, making Caulfield's character the most formidably morose and enigmatic...
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| Charlie Sheen and Maxwell Caulfield in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR |
Meanwhile Charlie, in-between his father spree-killing in BADLANDS and his brother in WISDOM, was on the edge of his very own brooding sex-symbol stardom, looking like his FERRIS BUELLER white-shirt rebel... not entirely with or against his murderous cohort throughout the L.A. nightlife, in what are intriguingly voyeuresque street scenes where DECLINE OF THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION Spheeris feels right at home...
Yet her handsome pair needed more obstacles to make this randomly violent exploitation more of the intense crime thriller that, with token trailing cops, these BOYS could have been far more intensely driven through.
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| Charlie Sheen and Maxwell Caulfield in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR |
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| Charlie Sheen and Maxwell Caulfield in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR |
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| Hank Garrett and Christopher McDonald in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR |
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| Charlie Sheen in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR |
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| Charlie Sheen in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR |
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| Charlie Sheen and Maxwell Caulfield in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR |
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| Maxwell Caulfield in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR |
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| Charlie Sheen and Maxwell Caulfield in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 |
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