A father and son moment ends up in a dreadful accident and 'hot girl moves in next door' equals 'creepy neighbour moves in shortly'. Once you remind yourself that the film is titled Disturbia, it all starts to feel okay.

Kale (LaBeouf) has an aura of an underling and you’re feeling sorry for him even before these tragedies actually hit him. Worst of the lot being confined to a 3-month house arrest for socking his teacher. Bored moments and Twinkie towers later, he turns to a pair of binoculars to get his daily dose of LIVE soaps and into a know-all on who’s doing who in the neighbourhood, which kids are being naughty, and which ones nice.

But our peeping Tom sees more than he should when he notices, what he assumes is, a stolen vehicle in the creepy neighbour’s (Morse) garage and catches suspicious activity involving a belle in a little black dress, ‘come hither’ dance moves and a gleaming kitchen knife. Kale is convinced that he has found the man behind recent serial killings. Now guess who knows he being stared at!

The movie is exactly what it sounds like: a teen thriller with basic pan shots and zooms (given the “long distance” relationship), and escalating music which startles you for that split second.

You knew what to expect in an I Still Know What You Did Last Summer while attempting to sit through it and though Disturbia is not filled with never-seen-before techniques (the theme itself is borrowed from Hitchcock’s Rear Window), it moves at a slick pace, better than most recent films in this category.