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I watched The Boys Next Door<\/em> because I read the following words in Kindertrauma\u2019s review: 1985, Penelope Spheeris, Netflix streaming<\/a>. Stopped reading right there. I wasn\u2019t disappointed\u2013although I will say that this isn\u2019t a movie I\u2019d recommend to most of my readers, even those who do like a lot of horror flicks. The Boys Next Door<\/em> is sleazy and free of redeeming social value. As Kindertrauma notes, there\u2019s a ton of in-character racism and homophobia and misogyny, and it\u2019s ugly but also basically, nihilistically accepted by the movie. This isn\u2019t a movie like Deadgirl<\/em><\/a> where the sordid and hateful elements exist to be interrogated.<\/p>\n

Still, I found this thing totally effective, in the way that bottom-shelf vodka is effective at what you buy it for. The basic idea is that there are these two high school seniors, total social rejects played by Maxwell Caulfield and Charlie Sheen, who start factory jobs on Monday but take a weekend road trip to Los Angeles to postpone their future for a while. The violence ratchets up relentlessly as the dead-eyed, rage-filled Roy (Caulfield) pushes his slightly more human best friend Bo (Sheen) to give in to his worst impulses. This road is going nowhere good.<\/p>\n

The movie is just gloriously 1980s LA all over its face. Sheen is amazing; you can\u2019t stop watching him. He absolutely sells his character. He and Caulfield both have this supremely sleazy, hyper-macho swinging walk, all hips and hanging arms. Caulfield isn\u2019t as believable as Sheen, although he does have an awful, spooky wheezing laugh, and there\u2019s an early scene where he\u2019s wheeze-laughing and rolling his head like he\u2019s lost the bones in his neck and it\u2019s just way too horrific. The soundtrack is incredible\u2013both the preexisting music, like the Cramps\u2019 \u201cI\u2019m a Gorehound,\u201d and the eerie score. The movie just sucks you in. It\u2019s also unexpectedly moralistic about the value of accepting your lot: resignation, if that\u2019s the only alternative to rage. \u201cIf that\u2019s all I can have then that\u2019s all I want!\u201d Bo admits, in his character\u2019s major turning point.<\/p>\n