Sentences with phrase «as home invasion films»

Not exact matches

The film that first established Haneke as an international auteur name was Funny Games (1997), a lacerating, menacing parody of a home invasion thriller.

As the film progresses, it's very clear that the home invasion aspect of the film is the least of its plot devices and that is what makes this flick all the more fun to revisit and show new viewers.

The film follows John as he wakes up from a coma after his wife and daughter were killed in a brutal home invasion.

In fact, unlike the home invasion plot of the first film, «Anarchy» has shed itself almost entirely of all horror elements, aiming for something more along the lines of a retro John Carpenter movie, only not as good.

Hardly the mere home invasion thriller it's been marketed as, this is an angry film for an angry time, a heavy, at times lumbering, allegorical work about woman and man, nature and God, painstakingly made from a script the writer - director claims he dashed off in five days; its unrefined, somewhat all - purpose symbolism is evidence of an almost demonic process, and its confusions, self - lacerations, and silliness would be less welcome if Aronofsky hadn't in the process mounted the most technically impressive filmmaking of his career.

Indeed, despite the various critics who chided earlier Haneke films for their supposed finger - wagging moralism and chilly Protestant air, and who are now falling over themselves to praise Amour as the director's most compassionate work to date, Amour is as much of a home - invasion horror show as Haneke's earlier Funny Games.