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* ContemptibleCover: The first edition of the novel has a skull-headed girl in a cheerleader's costume on it, with text proclaiming "The nightmare began the day she moved in". ''In other words, it implies that Meg is some sort of supernatural villain, rather than the victim of the events.''
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* ContemptibleCover: The first edition of the novel has a skull-headed girl in a cheerleader's costume on it, with text proclaiming "The nightmare began the day she moved in". ''In other words, it implies that Meg is some sort of supernatural villain, rather than the victim of the events.''
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* DisownedAdaptation: Jenny Likens was thoroughly opposed to the idea of anyone commercializing her sister's violent death, and unsurprisingly denounced the novel as cheap and exploitative.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/WilliamAtherton, known for playing arrogant smug jerkass characters, plays the grown up David.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/WilliamAtherton, known for playing arrogant smug jerkass characters, plays the sympathetic grown up David.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Jenny Likens was thoroughly against the idea of anyone commercializing her sister's violent death, and denounced the novel as cheap and exploitative.
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* DawsonCasting: 14-year old Meg is played by Blythe Auffarth who was 21 at the time of filming. While this is completely necessary given what happens it does create some awkward moments as the age difference between her and the actor playing David is apparent in their scenes together.
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* DawsonCasting: 14-year old Meg is played by Blythe Auffarth who was 21 at the time of filming. While this is completely necessary given what happens happens, it does create some awkward moments as the age difference between her and the actor playing David is apparent in their scenes together.
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* DawsonCasting: 14-year old Meg is played by Blythe Auffarth who was in her early twenties at the time of filming. While this is completely necessary given what happens it does create some awkward moments as the age difference between her and the actor playing David is apparent in their scenes together.
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* DawsonCasting: 14-year old Meg is played by Blythe Auffarth who was in her early twenties 21 at the time of filming. While this is completely necessary given what happens it does create some awkward moments as the age difference between her and the actor playing David is apparent in their scenes together.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The film became ''Jack Ketchum's Evil'' in Germany.
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* DuelingWorks: With ''Film/AnAmericanCrime,'' as both films were based on the Sylvia Likens murder. The difference was that ''An American Crime'' directly adapted the events rather than the loose approach this one took.
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* DawsonCasting: 14-year old Meg is played by Blythe Auffarth who was in her early twenties at the time of filming. While this is completely necessary given what happens it does create some awkward moments as the age difference between her and the actor playing David is apparent in their scenes together.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: ''The Girl Next Door'' is based on the Sylvia Likens case but takes some pretty extreme liberties with the details. Essentially, the one thing they have in common is that a teenage girl was taken in by an older woman who eventually locked her in a basement and invited her own and the neighborhood children to torment the girl. [[spoiler: The most significant difference is that much of the overt sexual violence didn't happen, as Gertrude Baniszewski refused to allow anyone to molest Sylvia directly, believing that the girl was "too dirty" to be touched.]]
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: ''The Girl Next Door'' is based on the Sylvia Likens case but takes some pretty extreme liberties with the details. Essentially, the one thing they have in common is that a teenage girl was taken in by an older woman who eventually locked her in a basement and invited her own and the neighborhood children to torment the girl. [[spoiler: The most significant difference is that much of the overt sexual violence didn't happen, as Gertrude Baniszewski refused to allow anyone to molest Sylvia directly, believing that the girl was "too dirty" to be touched.]]]]
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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/WilliamAtherton, known for playing arrogant smug jerkass characters, plays the grown up David.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/WilliamAtherton, known for playing arrogant smug jerkass characters, plays the grown up David.David.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: ''The Girl Next Door'' is based on the Sylvia Likens case but takes some pretty extreme liberties with the details. Essentially, the one thing they have in common is that a teenage girl was taken in by an older woman who eventually locked her in a basement and invited her own and the neighborhood children to torment the girl. [[spoiler: The most significant difference is that much of the overt sexual violence didn't happen, as Gertrude Baniszewski refused to allow anyone to molest Sylvia directly, believing that the girl was "too dirty" to be touched.]]
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: ''The Girl Next Door'' is based on the Sylvia Likens case but takes some pretty extreme liberties with the details. Essentially, the one thing they have in common is that a teenage girl was taken in by an older woman who eventually locked her in a basement and invited her own and the neighborhood children to torment the girl. [[spoiler: The most significant difference is that much of the overt sexual violence didn't happen, as Gertrude Baniszewski refused to allow anyone to molest Sylvia directly, believing that the girl was "too dirty" to be touched.]]
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