Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sorry, this movie sucks

best movie i've ever seen.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Randy Quaid could most likely play the part of an obnoxious neighbor in his sleep. It is interesting however, to see the usually smarmy James Woods playing a meek college professor. What starts out as Quaid's sprinkler soaking Wood's azaleas, eventually escalates to macho competitions, and finally gets nasty with a dog killing, attempted rape, and a completely unhinged Randy Quaid. Make no mistake, "Next Door" is not a "black comedy", because it is so mean spirited. What it really is, is two abrasive actors, playing two abrasive characters. Both wives, Kate Capshaw and Lucinda Jenny, more or less simply blend into the background, while Quaid and Woods do battle. - MERK

Next Door starts out like an after school family special. The direction and the introduction to the actors are comical and pleasant. As th movie progresses, the comedy becomes a drama when neighbors begin to fight. From petty arguments to life mattering issues, Next Door quickly turns into a modern day horror movie where your simple neighbor can be the cause of death and destruction. Both Quaid and Woods are terrific. Both actors could have played either one of their roles. Both are funny and at times scary. From broken patio furniture, a murdered dog, fighting kids, and then a possible rape, the movie moves close to death of one of the neighbors, which all began because somebody was watering their lawn with too much water. A great film about your typical suburbs with feuding neighbors.

This 1994 movie has the makings of a good film; its not a tale of feuding neighbors, more about the bully next door, whom we hope as viewers and as the story unfolds will sooner or later get his 'reward'. I enjoyed the picture and my main quibble is it cannot be described in any way as a 'comedy' and even 'black comedy' would be stretching it.If my neighbor attacked me violently, poisoned the family dog or attempted to rape my spouse.... how can that be said in any way to be funny?! One significant feature of the film was how the police often fail to act with violent neighbors, and such unjustified non-action has the ring of truth about it. A good cast were hampered by the film makers failing to realize that this movie deserved to be pure drama.

This ranks right up there among the four or five WORST movies I've ever seen.How they talked good people like Quaid, Woods and Capshaw into this appalling script I cannot imagine.If it was supposed to be a 'dark comedy' there should have been even one good laugh in there somewhere.On the other hand, if it was supposed to be a psychological drama, some effort might have been made to have even one character behave in ways we might see as remotely believable.For me, the worst thing about this stinker was the fact that the story line (nice couple is cursed with neighbors from hell) is banal....most of us have had neighbors from hell, and, as Peewee Herman once said "I don't need to watch it Dottie, I LIVED it".