American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020) Review

This documentary hit Netflix a few weeks ago to quite a lot of fanfare and I have now had the chance to watch American Murder: The Family Next Door and here is my review for it. The premise of the doc is that in 2018 a normal mother and two young children disappeared and the doc tells the story into what happened. 

Now the things I thought that was good about this documentary, first I really liked that the footage used was all authentic tapes from the situation involved. It wasn't like some Docs that have high production values and try to recreate certain aspects, it feels very real and very raw and disturbing which it is clearly going for so it does its job well. 

Also, sometimes I feel like they like to make documentaries about anything these days but this was truly shocking, I am not going to go into too much depth as to what happens but it is one of those things that you will thinking about long after you have watched it, it just manages to stick into your mind. 

Usually I find documentaries that are only 90 minutes long to suffer from a lack of detail but this film doesn't suffer from that. If anything it suffers from the opposite, maybe it just takes a little too long to go into all the details keeping you waiting but it does still do it well enough. 

Overall, this documentary is truly disturbing and chilling and at around 90 minutes is a short watch so I would highly recommend it, especially if you are a fan of documentaries like this. 

Rating - 9/10