Ray (Tom Hanks) is trying to have a relaxing stay-cation but he is drawn into increasingly unhinged conspiracies about the reclusive new neighbors who are only seen at night, digging holes in the backyard, and having mysterious lights and noises from their basement windows.
This holds up pretty well, better than I was afraid it would, because most of the humor is physical gags. Hanks has always been a natural comedian and is unsurprisingly good here. I wish they had given Carrie Fisher more to do and Corey Feldman less, but that's me. Also a shout-out to the late Henry Gibson for playing the creepy neighbor with just the right amount of plausible deniability.
It's only available to rent, unfortunately, unless you want to watch it in 5-minute increments as a YouTube playlist. (It gets the job done but it's not pretty.) It is considered a cult classic that I think gets overshadowed by Hanks' other suburban disaster movie, The Money Pit. Give it a shot if you can.
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