History Film / LakeviewTerrace

* {{Trailers Always Spoil}}: A rare inversion. The fact that Abel is a policeman is no secret or twist in the film, but the trailer doesn't reveal this until about half way through. This gets the audience much more interested in seeing it by showing that the plot of this film is much more intense.

* [[{{Ptitlej2qa66yo}} Screw the Rules, I Make Them!]]: Displayed in chilling fashion by an exchange between Lisa and Abel.

* TwoPersonPoolParty: While Abel already disapproves of the Mattsens as a couple along with their liberal attitudes, his children seeing the pair getting hot and heavy in their swimming pool one evening doesn't help matters.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Abel's kids were [[ShooOutTheClowns away visiting their aunt]] when the movie's final scene went down. [[spoiler:What happens when they come home and find out their father was shot to death by cops because he was trying to murder his neighbors?]]

* TwoPersonPoolParty: While Abel already disapproves of the Mattsens as a couple along with their liberal attitudes, his children seeing the pair getting hot and heavy in their swimming pool one evening [[{{Understatement}} doesn't help matters]].

''Lakeview Terrace'' is a 2008 film directed by Neil [=LaBute=] (''DeathAtAFuneral'') and produced by WillSmith. The film stars [[SamuelLJackson Samuel L. Jackson]], Patrick Wilson (''[[TheATeam The A-Team]]''), and Kerry Washington (''I Think I Love My Wife'').

* {{Meaningful Name}}: In some versions of the Bible, Cain betrayed his brother, Abel. In the movie, Jackson's character is not stranger to betrayal.

Abel is an old-fashioned, conservative beat cop who has spent the last several years after his wife's death raising his two children in the very same neighborhood. He disapproves of Chris and Lisa's relationship, and wastes little time in letting them know how he feels about it... even going so far as to make vague threats, turn his security lights so that they shine directly into the couples bedroom window, and sabotaging things around the house. When Chris responds in kind in an effort to show Abel that they are there to stay, the situation quickly escalates. With no fear from police interference due to being a cop himself, Abel becomes increasingly determined to drive his new neighbors out, and is willing to use any means necessary to do it.

''Lakeview Terrace'' is a 2008 film directed by Neil [=LaBute=] (''DeathAtAFuneral'') and produced by WillSmith. The film stars [[SamuelLJackson Samuel L. Jackson]], Patrick Wilson (''[[TheATeam The A-Team]]''), and Kerry Washington (''LittleMan'').

* EvilNeighbours: While Turner would certainly qualify, interestingly enough he may also feel the same way about the Mattsens, seeing them as a corrupting influence on his children and neighborhood.

* CompleteMonster

* EvilNeighbours: you don't want to have Samuel L. Jackson as your neighbour right?

* NeighboursFromHell: you don't want to have Samuel L. Jackson as your neighbour right?

** This troper'd be more concerned about why the hell my kids were watching people having sex.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Abel's kids were away visiting their aunt when the movie's final scene went down. [[spoiler:What happens when they come home and find out their father was shot to death by cops because he was trying to murder his neighbors?]]

* RapeIsOkWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Averted. In one of the most disturbing scenes in the movie [[spoiler: Abel has his friends hold down Chris while he's sexually assaulted by a stripper.]]

* TwoPersonPoolParty: While Abel already disapproves of the Mattsens as a couple along with their liberal attitudes, his children seeing the pair getting hot and heavy in their swimming pool one evening [[{{Understatement}} doesn't help matters]].

Chris and Lisa Mattsen are a young, recently married interracial couple who have just moved into a "starter home" in an upper-middle class neighborhood near Los Angeles, California. Looking forward to starting their brand new life together, the Mattsen's have little worries aside from getting settled in, and when they should start talking about starting a family. That is, until they meet their new neighbor, Abel Turner.

* {{Meaningful Name}} In some versions of the Bible, Cain betrayed his brother, Abel. In the movie, Jackson's character is not stranger to betrayal.

* {{Trailers Always Spoil}} A rare inversion. The fact that Abel is a policeman is no secret or twist in the film, but the trailer doesn't reveal this until about half way through. This gets the audience much more interested in seeing it by showing that the plot of this film is much more intense.

* {{The Trailers Always Spoil}} A rare inversion. The fact that Abel is a policeman is no secret or twist in the film, but the trailer doesn't reveal this until about half way through. This gets the audience much more interested in seeing it by showing that the plot of this film is much more intense.

* TwoPersonPoolParty: While Abel already disapproves of the Mattsens as a couple along with their liberal attitudes, his children seeing the pair getting hot and heavy in their swimming pool one evening [[{{Understatement}} doesn't help matters]].
* Narm: As far as this troper is concerned, the entire movie. The melodramatic forest-fire climax, for one.

* DirtyCop: Abel Turner is shown to be a man who will won't hesitate to break the rules to get whatever he wants, whether it's at home or on the job.