the people next door

[hairymelonwalton]

anyone else going to be watching this. looks like abit of a edge of your seat thriller

Crazy paving patio? That would've upset me, greatly!

Yes i was but of course smiled politely and told them it was lovely.

What it's made me wonder is, if I was in a similar situation as Gemma - how far is too far? Okay she didn't call the police, but what if she had and nothing came of it, as with Social Services? Surely you wouldn't just leave it there? I think most people would turn slightly strange if there was an instinct that a child was being abused and locked away next door.

Just keep calling the police. Go to the station with what you have recorded (from inside your home only!)

If they had rung the police that last evening and said that the family next door are away but we can hear a small child crying in the house, then surely the police would have entered the house and searched?

You would really like to think so.

At first I really thought they were justified to record noises through the wall, but to give them a teddy cam, go through their bins etc, that's too far! They should've just called the police with their suspicion early on or showed them the footage of what sounds like abuse from through the wall

I just thought the teddy cam and entering their house without their permission was unbelievable though I suppose it has been done.

I know of 2 cases of neglect and beating (same person as a child then a mother). My mum knew about the neglect but very hard to shop the mum when you know them... As an adult the woman was my friend but regularly beat her eldest, again do you really do that as a friend?? In the end she got in trouble re suspected benefit fraud moved away etc.

As an adult the woman was my friend but regularly beat her eldest, again do you really do that as a friend?

Fucking yes you do!! Because a child is being beaten! How the fuck did you look that child in the eye knowing what its mother was doinv to it?

In the end she got in trouble re suspected benefit fraud moved away etc.

That wasnt the end. That was just the end of your knowledge of the situation.

Rude when it happened I was young about 20, I didn't know what to do apart from be a good friend. I told her she shouldn't do it bought her a childcare book. We aren't friends from when I was 25.

When I mean end that was of my contact with her.

The child was also about 3 when this happened. Was a bit before naughty step as about 20 years ago.

An old "friend" of mine was found out to be a nasty abuser, but so bad she was in the newspapers etc. I was completely unaware until I got a message from her saying none of it was true so googled her and she came up on loads of newspaper sites etc. I was absolutely disgusted. You just can't see someone in the same light when you know they abuse children. Even now I feel sick to the pit of my stomach. :( Poor children.

Unsatisfying ending but I enjoyed it, it was gripping and keeps you guessing.

I'm not a fan of hand-held camera films but I enjoyed the first cyber one with Maisie so stuck with it.

I thought the mysterious crying child was going to end up being the cat!

All the way through I was convinced that the little boy and the crying was a ghost of their child that died.
Such a crap ending - why was it billed as supernatural?? Super shit more like!!

They should have drilled through the party wall, stuck their nanny cam there.

Or, tried to get a look in the back window.

They clearly weren't listening to me when I was shouting this at the TV.

Didn't realise it was billed as supernatural?

Initially it reminded me of one of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues, where a neighbour is convinced the child over the road is being neglected, and writes letters to Social Services about it.

Just caught up with this
Okay but that filming method does my head in
Is that what both the Cloverfeld films are like? I wanted to see them but will have to give them a miss if they're like this.

IIrc Cloverfield was filmed similar to the Blair Witch Project in parts with a hand held camera. It doesn't bother me but DH won't watch anything like that.

That's the first Cloverfield I haven't seen the second one

ooh thanks, I'll scratch that from the list then!