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Good Neighbours
UK 2024
produced by Richard Anthony Dunford, Daniel Vallecillo, Chuck Kanouse (executive), Carlos Ruiz (executive) for Hypericum Films, Man Down Productions
directed by Richard Anthony Dunford
starring Lynne Anne Rodgers, Karl Kennedy-Williams, Dani Thompson, Judson Vaughan, Param Patel, Chrissie Wunna, Caitlin Cameron, Hayley Bellamy, Kayley Rainton, Jamie Langlands, Owen Llewelyn, Tom Clear, Paul Kerry, Zakkee Aslam, and the voices of Neil James, Charlotte Marshall, Sarah Maddocks
written by Richard Anthony Dunford, music by Adam House
review by Mike Haberfelner
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When Tamesha (Lynne Anne Rodgers) stops by the new couple next door,
Mary (Dani Thompson) and Joseph (Judson Vaughan), to welcome them to the
neighbourhood, she didn't expect them to open in the nude - and be totally
unashamed about it, too. And to defuse the totally awkward situation,
Tamesha pretty much accidently invites them over to dinner that night,
much to the dismay of her husband Luke (Karl Kennedy-Williams), who isn't
really into meeting new people or suck up to neighbours just because they
live next door. The dinner then turns pretty awkward pretty quickly even
if Joseph and Mary are fully dressed this time around. But basically, they
seem to have no social skills, and frankly only a poor grasp on how to
behave like a human at all, which leads Luke to ask "which planet are
you from?" - which was exactly the wrong quesiton, as Mary and Joseph
are indeed aliens from other space studying humankind for eventual
conquest, and now that they feel their hosts have found them out, they
show their true colours - and they aren't pretty ...
Now this is a fun concept: Take a typical 1950s alien invasion
plot à la Invasion of
the Body Snatchers, trim it down to its essentials and then cook
it in a broth of British comedy - and the outcome is Good Neighbours.
Now this can of course be a recipe for disaster, but this film works
because it doesn't play up the comedy angle too much, and its thriller
elements still hit hard when they have to, but somehow a less than dead
serious approach actually makes the genre tropes more relatable, makes the
characters, inculding the aliens, appear more real - also thanks to a very
solid ensemble cast -, and all of this more than makes up for the
film's relative lack of spectacle owed to its rather modest budget. And
the outcome is a fun genre ride, really.
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