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  • You people have no idea how happy I am that everyone ignored sasik3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ... I don't know what to say

    ..

  • I was the saddest watching this :(

  • I really like this movie. I recently just bought the book The GIrl Next Door which is similar to this movie. I now just want to see the movie to it. Has anyone seen it? Any good? I watched the trailer and it seemed good.

  • thats how u americans r phishopats u dont have respect fot ur own child when he will turn 18 u will just kick him out of the house like a dog im really happy cos im not american btw such a retard movie

  • jhonny la gertie esta muy loca WTF

  • wait did she die, is dat y they where all in court...

  • Probably christian..

  • If I knew what she was going through I would tell ! Dang when I was watching this Chet the other day I felt like going in the tv and beating someone to death ! Or killing themm man !

  • @14chica1 Whaaa? No don't kill them I would lock those sadistic freaks in my basement and torture them for as long as I can without letting them die! Eye for an eye....

  • u know, the girl who gets killed in this movie looks just like my best friend Samantha :'(

  • What was wrong with just dropping them off at the local foster home, by leaving them with that Gertrude their father pretty much sentenced them to death...

  • I didnt see this one yet but i just got done with the girl next door i think it is based off of the same story, that one was horrible... i think i might start this one next, i dont know if i can stomach it though

  • The real Gertrude looked like a witch.

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  • ths movie was soooo sad

  • @whocarexxx So you're telling me this innocent girl's story should be left untold? You're honesty saying that the world should be blind to the horrible things that happen when no one cares enough to look a bit harder? If anything, this film is Sylvia's last laugh - "Look at me. I live on."

  • this movie is really good but also really sad. ellen page is unbelievably good in it.

  • to be honest...i can´t understand why they make a movie of her tragically life. Such kind of movies are dangerous for psychopatic people! I can´t find any words to explain what i feel when i see these cruel and horrible crimes they did to her. I stoped watching this movie at part 5. this movie doesn´t deserve a prize or an oscar, because you can´t honor it. there isn´t anything good in this movie. no matter how good the actors are!!!

  • @Destini6001 You also gotta remember back in those days people were actually alot more trustworthy than they were today...and to top it off they probably didn't think anything of it because she already had children. I saw this movie....it really made me sick to know people put children through this is really sad, but back in those days parents were very naive about stuff.

  • Si hablas spañol, quieres ver la pelicula por aquí por youtube pon en buscar el encierro(an american crime) el primer video q te salgas entras hay el canal de TheCruelinventions y hay estan todos los capitulos completos son 9 capitulos esta toda la pelicula completa & POSDATA: mientras ves uno pon a cargar otro:) & estan completos no le falta NINGUNA PARTE:) ! Y esta completamente en español.

  • Omg I Cried :(

  • @Destini6001 first parents doesn´t know that Gertrude was a psycho.

    Even if they left the girls with the neighbor, she didn´t had the right to do all that things!

  • ive never seen this one but i saw a movie called the girl next door and my life changed after that whenever i here stories/crimes like this i wish i could go back in time and save'em when i cant i feel rlly sad cause i know that someone could've saved'em but no did so i feel like its my responsibility to do so

  • @TheJunda133 honestly me too. but no ones super man or superwoman you cant save lives everyday. everything happens for a reason. remember that. k? :) you have a good soul wanting to save them

  • @mizztomboy4real u have a good soul to:)!! I wish i superwoman, cuz i don't like death, cancer, etc!! But it also makes me mad that the parents just left their kids with a complete stranger! I just don't understand why death is here! nobody should die, or have diseases!

  • @mizztomboy4real  why yes, but i hhate we cant save EVERYONE in the world

  • ive never seen this one but i saw a movie called the girl next door and my life changed after that whenever i here stories/crimes like this i wish i could go back in time and save'em when i cant i feel rlly sad cause i know that someone could've saved'em but no did so i feel like its my responsibility to do so

  • i'd fuck this gertrude's asshole and make her bleed like a bloody bitch

  • @ajaykeer23939 I will help you and bring a nice sharp object.

  • i think germans have evil dns because this family has german origins. pooor kid

  • @picollo1231 you can't say that about germans, yes there were bad people in world war 2 but you can't that all germans are that way. there's evil people all over the world

  • @picollo1231

    oooh yea. if it werent for the german origin this woman wouldve been a saint and hadnt tortured an innocent girl to death -.-

    this is up there with the most racist things ive ever heard!

    the germans have sufferd just as much as anyone under the hitler regime, merely the nazis got away quite mildly.

    besides, america has a pretty nasty history too. yet, i dont go around judging people for their countries past.

    thats a really foolish thing to do and it does make you look quite bad...

  • @picollo1231 Hallo ich bin deutsch! Ich denke man sollte nicht alle über einen Kamm scheren.

    Die Amerikaner sind auch nicht besser...denke nur mal an den Vietnam Krieg.

  • I've heard about the true story about what happened to Sylvia, and it's fucking terrifying that one person can turn a neighborhood against one kid, who did nothing wrong. I think the house where the incidents happened is still around somewhere.

  • @TheElectricDreamer93 Actually it isn't around any more. It was for a long time, but it was torn down sometime in the last few years.

  • how much was $20 then? was it like $100 now?

  • @blinkoffyourpants Underage much?

  • @jamesfish05 uhh

  • through this movie was begging for the BAU (Criminal Minds ) would burst in shut Fucking Gertrud and the rest of that sick family but no one cam she just did and Gertrud got a way with 20 years Paula with 2 years that wasn't fair, im so sorry for the Likens family :'(

  • I'm usually not emotional ,but i spore some tears in the end of this one !

    i was also expecting her to get away in the end.(i knew nothing about the real case )

  • i dont understand why all the people who helped comitt the crime were not all jailed and for life- but most of them did die from lung disease!!!!!!!

  • I knew the ending of this movie and yet the ending still made me cry like a baby.

  • I bawl my eyes out while watching this movie.

  • :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

  • anyone know of more psychological shock value movies like this??

  • it's so damn sick

  • i have seen many movies and all i can say it is the best and i really feel and pray for silvia. Every one should watch it and stop child abuse

  • the family that murdered sylvia all died from dease and guilt. gertude died before she was 50 and the kids that helped hurt her died before 30! they damn well deserve to die what pain the put sylvia through

  • I watched this , and its scared me ,

  • Can someone tells me what happens in this movie? lol sorry didn't really understand the trailer

  • shit like this happens every day ... just nobody knows about it until its too late :( rip sylvia likens

  • Sylvia Likens, rest in peace. Everytime I think about her, I start crying. I HATE GERTRUDE I LOVE SYLVIAXOXOXOX♥

  • I watched this movie and i cried to think that one little girl out there with a bright future was so cruelly tortured and killed. This movie however downplays the real pain. I looked it up and MUCH more happened to her. She had her private parts burnt and the family took turns sticking something up her and they wanted to see what went farthest. It was a sad game, lost in pieces.

    At least she is in her heaven, riding with the plastic horses and beautiful twinkling lights of the carnival.

    Rest in

  • @MackyzBack The Girl next door 2007 ( It's on netflix watch instantly )was based on the same thing, and it might be a little better than this one. ( Haven't watched this yet ) They don't show the torture as much ( Thankfully ) most of it is implied. They show the poor girl trying to survive, and if just breaks your heart. I cried, a lot.

  • @PaintingOfTheMind I cried too!!!! :(

  • thanks for posting this video if it's not too much to ask will you please join my group on facebook? "Stop child abuse and save a child's life today" in return i will publish your video... this group was made in horno or my friend who was kill by her father and we made a group to take a stand against child abuse so please join and suggest to friends ♥

  • i can't believe this is a true story. so sad. i hope that lady is burning in hell.

  • Man what a freaky scary movie, especially being based on a true story. I can't believe there are people out there like this.

  • i cried D: at the end. fuckin bitch mother i would shove her in a wood chipper and then feed her to a kitty >:O

  • So many times I wanted to stop watching. I was hoping someone would come to her rescue. All those kids saw her and abused her, and no one had the common sense to know it was wrong. I'm seriously disturbed by this movie. I swear I can't stop crying I feel so bad for her.

  • @thatpecinalgirl i felt the same way . 

  • This movie disturbed me a lot... The kids been playing with Slyvia like she was not human. i don't know if they're stupid or what... She was harmless. They burn and hit her like as if it doesn't hurt.

  • this movie is almost too much to bear. But we should all see this movie so we're aware of what human nature is capable of. its horrifying.

  • WHY!?:,(

  • if i was the judge person i would have made ALL THOES KIDS WHO BURNED HER or beated her up i would show them how beating hurts and kick them burn them all of the above that the did to sylvia

  • gertrude got it too easy!!

  • i love this movie

  • I cried so much at the end!!!!!!!!

  • Omg This Made Me Cry This Movie

  • i honestly cryd when i watched dis movie lol boii i was crying my ass off lol jk i was tearing out pretty much...

  • I wish I could find her kids and kill them. They should burn them alive since this bitch is dead.

  • very very diffucult to watch the movie!!!!

  • I cried like 3 times during the movie. i can't believe this actually happened.

    rip sylvia :(

  • aww. this movie made me sooo sad and it makes me feel worse knowing its a true story . i can't believe Gertrude Baniszewski was granted bail! like, WTF? who would let that monster out of prison?!!

  • @historylover58 even death sentence wouldn't be enaought they should let her live and torture her for the rest of her life bringing her to the point she would begging them to kill her butthey wouldnt make her the favor

    that's what people like her diserve and even this is not enought but of course human justice never existed let's just hope that hell really exists and she is rotting there

    sorry for my bad eng

  • @historylover58

    they tought she was insane

  • Sylvia's parents have the fault. could they leave their daughters with a woman they didn't knew at all?

  • This movie is not nearly as bad as The Girl Next door which is based on the same thing It was awful I saw a video of the basement where the torture went on it killed me 2 even see the place where it happened Its unexplainable how evil people can be 2 do this 2 an innocent girl who did nothin They stripped her in front of all of the neighborhood kids u HAVE 2 watch the girl next door I cried so much And u know how they called her a prostitute well the autopsy results showed that she was a virgin

  • This is horrifying to know that it is a true story. I think those bastards deserved torture for the rest of their faggot lives for what they did. poor Sylvia.

  • @Masterpg94 I No How Could SomeOne Do That To A Young Gurl :( x

  • @Masterpg94 ITT: Whiteknight virginfag trying to show off the the ugly fattys on youtube.

  • Lol.. This movie wasn't real to me.. The real story of Silvia Likens had it worse.. Look it up.. They insert a coke bottle into her vagina until it's swollen and called her a prostitute.. They did so many things to her that you wouldn't believe and this movie is not letting us know how tortured silvia likens was. RIP.

  • i can't beleive that was based on a true story.i feel sick to my stumak nowing theres people out there that are like that its so sad to now that there kids that have to go through that

    ive never gryd so much in my life i cry juring the hole movie

  • ive never cried so much during a movie but this one was so sad to watch.

  • i agree i still cry when i think of it

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  • it seems to me they should have all been charged !! I know it was 1965 but , to me if you know,see or God forbid were to participate in this kind of abuse Your'e just as guilty! Very ,very, disturbing movie !! I wish i could have that sick bitch in my basement and beat her daily see how she likes it!!

  • well at the end don't they all get charged the girl was saying at the end eatch person how much they served and what happened to them in the futur so yeah they all got surved jail time caus at the end she was explaining how that little brother was the youngest to have surved time in jail :(

  • am disapointed in jenny!!

  • u know at end i wanted to kick her lil sisters ass cuz she didnt do anything to protect her big sister, what an ass hole

  • Jenny isn't Stupid!! She was just scared. Her Parents were fucking stupid!!

  • Well think of it this way. I was informed that Jenny had a big disability. It is said that she was being beaten too but Sylvia chose to have Gertude take the beating out on her instead of her sister. Also, I've heard that Jenny wanted to stop this torture but she was being spied on. However, I don't know what to really believe. All I do know is that this shit shouldn't happened to poor Sylvia. God bless her. The parents are the ones to be blamed greatly for not checking up on them.

  • Lastly, you should look at the video called the unkown facts of an ameican crime. It actually surpried me but made me feel angry at the director for not adding those real facts. If you have looked it up then don't bother.

  • because she is fucking stupid!!!!

  • How come Jenny didn't do anything to try and help her? Was Gertrude on drugs the entire time? Is that why in real life she escaped the death penalty?

  • this movie is so sick and twisted, it's so frightening and harder to watch (for me anyway) than the texas chainsaw massacre, because this was real.

  • this was so...abhorrent. i was so...sad. this movie is great. but it's far too galling for me to love it.

  • A harrowing and baffling account of an unimaginable crime.Worth watching I'd say and saw the whole movie here BigOnlineMovies . c o m

  • i watched the movie. i never cry during movies but this one made me cry. i thought she really got away in the end. the parents i thought were pretty dumb u just met the pshyco bitch and u leave ur kids with her? id get to know her before i do tht

  • i love you robinrenee dorsey

  • We just got done watching this movie. This is a must see! If you haven't watched this, don't mind some of the immature, close minded comments below. I'm going to have my little brother and sisters watch this so they can be more aware of the dangers out there.

  • the most disturbeing true story in the US in my opinion!!

  • This movie pissed me off :( I really thought she had gotten away in the end.......

  • @sonia094 me 2 and i was sooo happy then i cried

  • @sonia094 SPOILER!

    I know, me too. I had read the crime report beforehand, but skipped the last few pages because I figured I knew what happened. I watched the movie and was overcome with happiness because I thought she died and realized she lived. It felt like being punched in the stomach when Sylvia saw herself lying there.

  • @sonia094 But this is a true story. The real life girl was named Sylvia Likens. This happened in Indiana. I wish she'd gotten away too. What a horrible story and so tragic that it really did happen.

  • @teacupgirrrl3621 I know it was a real story, but still.. I dunno lol.. I guess I was thinking if she got away in the movie maybe I could just tell myself she got away in real life.. You know, sort of "un-know" what really happened.. Sick & heartbreaking..... God rest her soul...

  • @sonia094 omg sameeee :|

  • @sonia094 Dude I agree I as completely upset that she didn't get away. I hope all the kids who are still alive from this incident are in pain right now for what they did to this poor girl.. What douchebags..

  • @sonia094 Sadly that's the way things turned out. We all wish she had a better ending

  • @sonia094 nice spoiler

  • @sonia094 haha true true.sad tho :'(

  • @sonia094 spoiler aleart much?

    thanks for ruining the movie for me.

  • @xBanksy You are very welcome.

  • i saw this movie with my friends and... i was so pissed off with this women! aarrghhhh! so much cruelty and wow! we ended mad! hahahah but is a good movie!

  • Reality is that Child Abuse really happen and it's very sad what happen to this girl and this should make us aware of it...!!!!!!!

  • there is nothing but torture in this movie..

  • if seen it and i wish i hadent i recomend you not to watch this movie you will only feel sad

  • der Film hat mich sehr beschäftigt. Das schlimme: es kann überall passieren!

    Wenn ihr in eurer Nachbarschaft oder im Bekanntenkreis so etwas vermutet, müßt er das "petzen". Lehrer, Eltern und Freunde müssen so etwas erfahren. Dann seid ihr Helden ... und nicht nur für einen Tag

  • oh my god thats base edge over sylvia (ellen page) what kind of person are the Baniszewski!!!!!!!

  • Girl Next Door took place in 1958. An American Crime takes place in 1965. The events happened differently in each movie so it seems like two different girls with the same situation, but I'm not sure. Maybe some things were made up in one of the movies...I don't know.

    The girl from Girl Next Door's death was differnet and so much worse from what I had seen, but both of them were torchered by a pyscho mom...if its not all the same people. That bitch should have rotted in prison. Life is Life.

  • The Girl Next Door is a fictional story based off the Sylvia Likens with a different time setting. An American crime is also based on this crime too, rather loosely based on the true story.

  • Oh okay. I get it now. Thanks for clearing that up. I'd hate to think that the same thing happened to two different girls.

  • girl next door is far more loosely based. it also shows when police are called, they do nothing.

  • Yeah, I know. It's nothing more than an inspired story of the crime specifically, so it's not supposed to fit any closer then this movie.

  • true. this movie is pretty accurate though. it is of course missing some of the abuse and they portrayed paula differently, but other than that...it was taken from court documents and the names were the same. i couldn't watch bits of the girl next door..the blow torch thing and other stuff it was like a snuff film

  • oh... i am watching a movie called Aurore right now (thanks to someone mentioning it) but i don't know if it is true. i think it is.

  • Gertrude wud make Sylvia perform strip teases to the neighborhood boys and stick coke bottles up her vagina!It didnt show it in the movie however this happened way more than once!

  • Jack Ketchums Girl Next Door & An American Crime are both based on the same true story about Sylvia Likens, difference is, is that An American Crime uses more of the real things that happened.

  • So does that mean that the girl's death was more like what happened in this movie or Girl Next Door, because in that one her death was way worse! That's why I thought it was two different girls...

  • Neither one is entirely accurate. Sylvia Likens experienced far more torture than is shown in An American Crime, but I don't think the movie was supposed to just be about the torture, it was meant to tell her story.

    Either way, both movies are terribly heartbreaking :(

    The poor girl, totally innocent. She deserved a better life.

  • i'm a guy, and i watch bad ass scary movies lol , and this movie made me almost cry, guys, this shit was bad.

  • lol same here hahahaha

  • that was just torcher. sylvia didnt do anything.gertrude was so sick. gertrude should of died and then rot in hell.sylvia was innicent and sweet.i just saw tha movie yesterday.tha thing that makes me real mad is that gertrude shoved a bottle up sylvia's ass!!!!!!!!!!!!11

  • Oh it was her ass?I thought she made her shove it up her Verjina. God thats awful

  • ya its was her vjj :( i wont watch this movie, first off the trailer makes me cry and im about to be sick.

  • @xxXtolittletolateXxx does it really matter if it was in her ass or her vagina guys? like really...? what gets me the most is that the whole thing was true..i cannot imagine the pain that little girl went through..and that fuckin gertrude?!! i hope she burns in hell forever..what kind of woman was she?! did she not had any heart at all??!!!

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  • iv watched it yesterday....so sad

  • Well, I think this trailer is soooo bad. First, I watched the movie and I think, this is a fucking great film! If I had seen the trailer before I watched the film, I would never watch it. You know what I mean? I mean..this film is so dramatic and sad..and the trailer is...without any of this...

  • i saw this movie sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooo sad

  • Okay so I watched this today and I could not stop crying. That lady seriously had mental problems. Sylvia never did anything wrong. She was so pure and innocent. I hate the oldest sister so much right now. She's the one who started everything. Sylvia would've lived if it wasn't for that whiny brat who was the whore who got herself pregnant and didn't tell her mom the truth but instead makeup lies to get that poor girl killed. RIP Sylvia. I know you are in heaven and that hideous lady is in hell.

  • That might b so about Paula Banizewski, however,Gertrude was a grown ass woman,no matter if Sylvia did say those things(she didnt) or not,Gertrude had no right whatsoever 2 commit murder,i did research on the story,& Gertrude actually let ppl inside the house 2 torture Sylvia.On sum occasions,she wud make her sister hit her!Coy,Stephanie's bf,even tho it didnt show on the movie,wud beat her unconcious wit broomsticks,whatever!Alot of ppl in the neighborhood knew about it & didnt report it!

  • sad.. =[ the ending was ughh!!! T^T

  • milanooo159 ????? Did you just say it would be okay if the character is a boy? I thinks thats a sick comment!!

  • Gertrude should have got the death penalty

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  • these people had no feelings at that time at least if the tortured person was a boy OK but a beautiful girl, (Sylvia Marie Likens). its a real sad story that actually made me cry

  • its not okay if it was a boy What does that even mean? sicko

  • wretched story, makes me not want to be a part of a society where disgusting things somehow slip under the radar..

  • Why don't you? She did a great job in this movie.

  • this was so sad and its based on a true story

  • this is a sad movie that may give you nightmares! But it made me cry.

  • fuck i watched that last night i fukin hate it

  • It is easy to say that Jenny should have told someone, but who was she to tell? We already know the neighbors didn't give a damn. And if she told the police, would they even have believed her? They probably would've gone to the house and that monster Gertrude would have made up some bs story and then Sylvia would've gotten it worse, Jenny too. All very sad.

  • i saw the movie yesterday in my forensic class room it was a real good movie i highly recommend. i cant believe people in the house and in the neighbor hood knew what was going on and didn't call the police their part of it as well. and why the hell would you leave your daughters with strangers.

  • on youtube :P

  • i saw the movie it was so sad for what happened to silvia at the end

  • This trailer is much better than the old one.

    I've watched this film at least four times. Only film to get a 10/10 rating.

  • O M F G!

    I just watched this movie.... damn! that lady is a psicho..... the movie is good, but in some parts of it, I couldnt watch!

  • aww man gertude is haunting me i cant sleep after looking at her real face.gawd y did she do this doesnt she have a heart i dont wish any harm on her but i wish that justice be done so whatever has to be done let it be

  • She was screwed up, stressed out, drugged out, and freaked out. A horrid combination.

  • i know! i don't usually cry in films but I was so upset when i watched the film! I cried so much at the end! :(

  • im about to watch it on the compueter right now hopefully its not to bad!