{"id":475872,"date":"2022-07-19T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/next-door-finds-comic-thrills-very-close-to-home\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:25:12","slug":"next-door-finds-comic-thrills-very-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-door-finds-comic-thrills-very-close-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Next Door&#8217; Finds Comic Thrills Very Close to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35abcd19ee0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35abcd19ee0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-door-finds-comic-thrills-very-close-to-home\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Next_Door_Finds_Comic_Thrills_Very_Close_to_Home%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Next Door&#8217; Finds Comic Thrills Very Close to Home&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-door-finds-comic-thrills-very-close-to-home\/#Recommended_Reading\" >Recommended Reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Next_Door_Finds_Comic_Thrills_Very_Close_to_Home%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Next Door&#8217; Finds Comic Thrills Very Close to Home&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-media \">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/next-door.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Next Door\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/next-door.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/next-door-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><br \/>\n                        <span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\">Finecut<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>        <!-- START BYLINE --><\/p>\n<div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\">\n            By\u00a0Rob Hunter\u00a0\u00b7 Published on July 19th, 2022\n            <\/div>\n<p>        <!-- END BYLINE --><\/p>\n<p>        <em>The 26th edition of the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fantasiafestival.com\/en\/\">Fantasia International Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0runs July 14th through August 3rd, and you can follow all of\u00a0our coverage here.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Thrillers that unfold in a tightly limited amount of time, an afternoon or even a single day, can be tough to execute well. Some of the best include Martin Scorsese\u2019s <em>After Hours<\/em> (1985) and Kim Seong-hoon\u2019s <em>A Hard Day<\/em> (2014), but they have the advantage of letting their protagonists roam whole cities in pursuit of those thrills and spills. Add in a tightly limited space, though, and things get even more difficult for characters and filmmakers alike. Writer\/director <strong>Yeom Ji-ho<\/strong> accepts that challenge with the energetic and fun <strong><em>Next Door<\/em><\/strong>, and a couple bumps aside he succeeds with an entertainingly twisty thriller.<\/p>\n<p>Chan-woo (<strong>Oh Dong-min<\/strong>) is something of a slacker with real ambitions. He\u2019s been trying for five years to get into the police academy, and this might just be his last chance. He\u2019s been studying despite his noisy neighbor, and with the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lication deadline the following day he makes the unfortunate decision to go out drinking with friends. When he awakes hungover the next morning, though, it\u2019s in his neighbor\u2019s apartment, covered in bruises, with no memory of how he got there \u2014 and with a dead body on the floor in a pool of blood.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a simple, irresistible setup, and <em>Next Door<\/em> wastes no time dropping Chan-woo into the thick of things with little hope of squirming his way out. Yeom twists the screws with locked doors, pesky visitors, and a slow drip of revelations and recovered memories as to what exactly landed our hero in this predicament. Things get a little sloppy in the home stretch, but they\u2019re easily forgivable missteps given the otherwise entertaining and satisfying results.<\/p>\n<p>As the minutes tick by it becomes more than a little bit clearer as to why Chan-woo has struggled getting into the academy \u2014 he\u2019s maybe not quite all that good of an investigator? His attempts at using a messy memory and the evidence before him to solve the crime lead to both false leads and clumsy truths, but his stumbles are our entertainment. The situation leaves him trapped in the apartment with the corpse, and his efforts to reconstruct the events leading up to his current predicament leads him down empty mental roads and false conclusions. Yeom maintains an energetic pace even within the confines of the apartment by introducing new obstacles and reveals along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s darkly comical nature finds a willing accomplice in Oh\u2019s performance as he fumbles his way through it all, sometimes quite literally. Chan-woo is something of a doofus, but he\u2019s a likeable guy prone to poor choices \u2014 maybe not exactly the guy you\u2019d want to see as a policeman, but as a down on his luck young man making one last try for success he\u2019s plenty easy to root for. Oh delivers some solid physical comedy as he dashes around the apartment, reacts to revelations, and swings between balconies from a makeshift rope. He\u2019s a desperate man who might not be up to the task before him, and that leads to a good time for viewers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Next Door<\/em> wisely limits audience knowledge to only what Chan-woo himself knows. We\u2019re along for the investigatory ride making our own assumptions and deductions along the way and seeing them challenged with each new turn. Yeom\u2019s script has fun yanking the bloody rug from beneath Chan-woo\u2019s feet on occasion turning the man\u2019s conclusions into false leads and forcing him to consider other possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The only real missteps here are in a third act that feels a little rushed in its efforts to wrap things up with a conclusion. There\u2019s no drag in <em>Next Door<\/em>, and at only ninety minutes there\u2019s still room to breath, but Yeom seems intent on a quick exit. To be sure, it works well enough, but some threads are left hanging that he attempts to reel in with some brief exposition which ultimately feels like the bare minimum. It\u2019s fine, but it leaves the film going out on a more static and stable beat than the energetic highs that came before.<\/p>\n<p><em>Next Door<\/em> is Yeom\u2019s feature debut, and it\u2019s a fun, fast watch that shows him capable of creating suspense and thrills while holding viewer interest with a limited environment. That\u2019s already more than many more established filmmakers can claim, so in addition to seeking out this good time you\u2019d be smart to also keep an eye out for whatever Yeom does next.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Topics: Fantasia Film Festival<br \/>\n        <!-- AUTHOR BOX --><\/p>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dca6f7118e64ea9aa6ef4f60221cfe7e?s=96&amp;d=mm&amp;r=x\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Rob Hunter has been writing for Film School Rejects since before you were born, which is weird seeing as he&#8217;s so damn young. He&#8217;s our Chief Film Critic and Associate Editor and lists &#8216;Broadcast <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>&#8217; as his favorite film of all time. Feel free to say hi if you see him on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FakeRobHunter\">@FakeRobHunter<\/a>.        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <!-- START RECOMMENDED READING 1 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"recommended py-5\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Recommended_Reading\"><\/span>Recommended Reading<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<p>                <!-- END RECOMMENDED READING --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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