One of my all time favorites.

Good concept, poorly executed.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

So many negative reviews about this flick so it was time for me to give it a try. Especially when you know that the director Cliff Guest made a famous videoclip in 1986, Madonna's True Blue. He moved further to direct a lot of clips but he also made a few flick, let this one his first and it shows that he has the acknowledge of making a flick. I mean, the use of zoom and editing, it do works.But for many it's all too cheesy. In some ways it is, the monsters that our schizo is seeing are indeed a bit cheesy but for me it all fits perfectly. With his sick mind he think every girl is going to strip for him and that's what they do throughout the whole movie, gratuitous nudity, in some way yes and no. But the sickness in his mind do offer a few killings, not that bloody or so but due the way it's shot it do gives it a disturbing feeling. Some viewers will find it boring, maybe the sound could have been better but I liked it. It's not a classic but the acting from almost all first time thespians is above mediocre. The title is what it's all about and does show it in a cheesy and disturbing (slo-mo of shot in the head) way.Gore 1/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

I was originally alerted to the existence of this film when I read a review by Film Director, Quentin Tarantino, where he said, that strictly as a horror film coming out in 1990, The Disturbace ranked highly on his top ten list.... End of Story. I purchased the newer DVD Re-Release, 2005 Rareflix, and agree completely with Mr. Tarantino. Yes, there is nudity, but there is also a great psychological horror story at work here. One of the characters I loved so much was that of the Mother, played by Carol Garlin, Real Life Mother to Comedian and star of "Curb Your Entusiasum, Jeff Garlin. The Special make-up effects where also quite horrific, made by Barry Anderson, Tom Savini's understudy and make-up artist for "The UnHoly" and "Dawn of the Dead".I recommend this film for anyone that loves independent horror movies without all of the computer graphics, as so many use today. Very few films from this truly independent era, low budget, but with stunning visual effects throughout. My fav effect was the Gun Shot to the Head scene, it is flawless and way ahead of its time... 10 Stars all the way...

I don't think The Disturbance deserves the high rating it's got because for the most part, it's very boring. There's more sex scenes and breasts than any regular horror flick and little violence or gore. The beginning is extremely cheesy as we see the main star falling in love, complete with cheesy music. I fast forwarded through most of these parts. He starts acting weirder and weirder as time goes on until his girlfriend says she's had enough. There is really only one part that I thought was excellent in this film and that's when the police burst into the home where the guys parents are sitting down for dinner. The parents haven't a clue what's been going on, and the man sits in the bathroom and slits his wrists. I thought this was very well done and believable, especially seeing the shock on the parents faces. The film starts to look sort of "good" after this, as the man is put in hospital and we realise what's actually been going on, and why there was a distinct lack of gore and murders. The trouble is, it comes far too late to save the film - by this time you will be bored to death. The concept is good and it's a good look at insanity, but it should have been more interesting from the beginning. I wouldn't recommend this unless you're into films that take a peek at mental illness and insanity. It's not really for horror fans.

A young man is building a large sand castle, and a young woman playing beach volleyball nearby takes a liking to him, and they begin dating. He lives with his parents, who are frustrated by how he doesn't do they things they ask, but they still love him. He works as a dishwasher, and at some point at been in group therapy at a hospital. He takes Thorazine, but he's run out of it.He has a number of fantasies, often sexual. Some of them are nice, but in some he rapes and kills. He starts having hallucinations and dreams that are disturbing. His relationship was going well, until some of his problems start affecting him, and his girlfriend gets scared. For example, he's had a recurring nightmare about a hand emerging from the sand castle, and when he sees his girlfriend working on the castle on her own, he's afraid for her, and tackles her. He grows angrier and more violent.Kind of a sad movie, in a way, since you're watching someone's life and mind deteriorate for lack of the right help. There are a fair number of icky horror effects, like melting hands, floating eyeballs, alien facehuggers, and so on - all things in his mind. There are a couple relationship montage-to-music scenes that detract a bit from the movie for the sheer cheesiness of the music.