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Ella newton 202010/31/2023 Disturbia’s central character gets a gender-flip (where 30 year-old Ella Newton gets to play a teenager!). Girl at the Window gives us some minor changes to the Rear Window/Disturbia premise. Of course Disturbia owed its basics to other works like the slasher film Eyes of a Stranger (1981) going all the way back to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) in which James Stewart is wheelchair-ridden following an accident and takes to spying on his neighbours with a telephoto lens only to inadvertently witness Raymond Burr murdering his wife. Though it is an original screenplay, Girl at the Window is fairly much an uncredited remake of Disturbia (2007) in which teenager Shia LaBeouf is confined on home detention and begins to suspect that his next door neighbour is a serial killer. Girl at the Window was Hartley’s second dramatic outing as a director. There Hartley unfortunately turned a modest original, which has become a cult classic, into something ridiculously overwrought that hammered every directorial point home with a sledgehammer. Hartley broached his first fiction film with Patrick (2013), a remake of an earlier Ozploitation classic Patrick (1978) about a coma patient who exhibits psychic powers. He went on to make a series of very entertaining theatrically released documentaries on other exploitation genres with Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010) about the Filipino film industry of the 1970s and Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) about Golan-Globus and Cannon Films. He then made the full-length documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008), an hilarious looks at the Australian exploitation film industry of the 1970s and 80s. Hartley began making music videos in the 1990s and by the 2000s was specialising in making extras shorts to accompany dvd releases of classic Australian films. Mark Hartley is better known as a documentary-maker than a dramatic filmmaker. As the latest girl is abducted, Amy tries to find evidence to take to the police but ends up upsetting both Chris and her mother, where her claims about Chris are dismissed as being all in her imagination. Amy’s mother Barbara has also started going out with Chris. Amy is certain that neighbour Chris Mancini is the killer and keeps a record of his nightly comings and goings, noting how they coincide with The Clockwork Killer’s movements. The area is plagued by a serial killer who has been nicknamed The Clockwork Killer. Teenager Amy Poynton lives is a small Victoria town.
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