of big houses peopled with aspirational neighbours desperate to show
off their fancy cars and neatly trimmed hedgerows just screams out for
satirical re-invention. The 'Burbs first arrived on cinema screens in
1989 but a brand new Blu-ray release from Arrow Video proves how much
quality comedy material can be squeezed out of that middle class world.
The cul-de-sac in question here is Mayfield Place and the seemingly all
American residents are the focus of a satire that is both very much of
its time yet oddly still relevant today.

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matters.

As a dark, mirth making satire on American middle class values The
'Burbs delivers.
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