A teenage boy named Kale is sentenced to three months house arrest after punching an unsympathetic teacher. When his mother takes away his TV and his computer, he resorts to spying on the houses around him for entertainment. I know... the plot sounds very much like Alfred Hitchcocks Rear Window, but even though Disturbia is loosely based on the 1954 classic, it's still very much its own film.

Things start to get a little frightening when Kale begins to suspect one of his neighbours is a serial killer. He gets his friends involved with his impromptu investigation, and it doesn't take long before the neighbour realises he's being watched and doesn't take too kindly to it. Disturbia relies on mood and suspense to draw you in and frighten you, rather than on excessive gore and gross-out tactics, and in my book the movie is much the better for it. As the film progressed, the tension got so high I was literally curled up in my seat, my short shallow breaths changing only to be replaced by a gasp or not-so-muted yelp in the scary bits which unfortunately drew stares from the people around me.

The acting was good, the cast good-looking, and the baddy was suitably creepy. What more can you ask for? So come along: you won't be disappointed, you won't look at your neighbours in the same way again, and if you like Shia LaBeouf then there's always Transformers to come and see!'