Sentences with phrase «for home invasion thrillers»

I have a soft spot for home invasion thrillers.

The fever pitch for this home invasion thriller has had two years to simmer.

Universal has debuted the first official trailer for a home invasion thriller titled Breaking In, which kind of twists the old home invasion concept just a bit.

Not exact matches

Give credit where it's due to the flimsy home - invasion thriller Breaking In, directed by Wachowski sisters protege James McTeigue (V for Vendetta).

Bad news for fans of Bryan Bertino's breakout home invasion thriller The Strangers — producer Adrienne Biddle gave an update to Rue Morgue on the long in development sequel and bad news was heard by all: Bertino, Biddle and their production company are no longer involved with the film.

The home invasion thriller starring Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson is heading for a $ 25 million upset weekend win

Basic fodder for a home - invasion thriller, but Wingard and Barrett aren't interested in making something you can so easily predict, because where's the fun in that?

Just in time for Mother's Day, Breaking In gifts moms everywhere with a thrill - free, home - invasion thriller about a mom (Gabrielle Union) who'll stop at nothing to keep four bad guys from killing her two kids.

Among the movies showing in town that can be broadly categorized as thrillers, two represent murder and mayhem with particular enthusiasm: the neatly constructed Funny Games, a home - invasion fable playing at Facets Multimedia Center for one week, and the erratic effects vehicle The Beyond, a supernatural horror rerelease screening midnight Friday and Saturday at the Music Box.

DO N'T BREATHE took elements from recent thrillers and used recycled tricks seen in home invasion thrillers with stilted dialogue, but kudos must be given for Alvarez's passion.

The original Funny Games is not the kind of movie that you want to see twice, which is probably the reason why ice - cold provocateur Michael Haneke decided to gift the world a shot - for - shot American remake of his queasy home invasion thriller.

The home - invasion thriller «Breaking In» seems designed for the «Payback is a Mother» billboards around Los Angeles in anticipation of Mother's Day.

V For Vendetta director James McTeigue takes a turn for the gritty with this home - invasion thriller about a seemingly ordinary mother (Gabrielle Union) who displays some extraordinary survival skills after she and her kids are attacked and held hostage by a gang at her late father's fortress of a mountain hoFor Vendetta director James McTeigue takes a turn for the gritty with this home - invasion thriller about a seemingly ordinary mother (Gabrielle Union) who displays some extraordinary survival skills after she and her kids are attacked and held hostage by a gang at her late father's fortress of a mountain hofor the gritty with this home - invasion thriller about a seemingly ordinary mother (Gabrielle Union) who displays some extraordinary survival skills after she and her kids are attacked and held hostage by a gang at her late father's fortress of a mountain home.

Aronofsky is going for a very specific aesthetic tone here, a home invasion thriller psychodrama with layered metaphors and melodramatic elements.

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.

But there's an irony to that film, and to Haneke's almost shot - for - shot American remake: In wagging his finger at the unsavory conventions of the home - invasion thriller, the Austrian scold produced the most intense, effective entry in the whole genre.

It's an ingenious way to subvert the rules of the home - invasion thriller, and a significant pivot for director Fede Alvarez, whose Evil Dead remake relied more on gallons of gore (literally — that film has the record for most fake blood ever brought onto a set) than expert suspense.

The home - invasion thriller is an American standard that doesn't lack for classic variations, from Sam Peckinpah's moralistic masterpiece Straw Dogs (1971) to Wes Craven's stealth Ingmar Bergman remake Last House on the Left (1972) to David Fincher's Panic Room (2002), which put a high - tech gloss on an archetypal scenario.