Sentences with phrase «heartpounding home invasion thriller»

Speaking of twists on the home invasion thriller, Don't Breathe is everything I love in a summer release.

A quality twist on the home invasion thriller, and a flick that refuses to follow the genre norms, Hush is the best Netflix release this year.

There's a twelve hour period where crime is just fine, literally almost anything can happen, and we end up with a home invasion thriller.

And a tired home invasion thriller at that.

The Purge is an adequately handled home invasion thriller.

The home invasion thriller, once a sparsely populated sub-genre, has proliferated in the 21st century, perhaps reflecting our growing fear (note the simultaneous rise of the cyber-thriller) that there's no place the evils of the world can't reach us.

I thought it was an original concept and even though it was a home invasion thriller it had many twists and turns that kept me on the edge of my seat!

Ruthless Pictures» Mischief Night, a home invasion thriller based on a pitch by Jesse Baget (Breathless, Cellmates) and Eric D. Wilkinson...

Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett, follow up their debut home invasion thriller You're Next (also on Netflix) with The Guest.

On the surface, Hush may seem like your typical home invasion thriller.

Instead of those tired old flowers or brunch, why not treat mom to a home invasion thriller this Mother's Day?

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.

It's a riff on a home invasion thriller, though everyone arrives in perfectly polite fashion.

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

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

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

eventually descends into insanity, it's quite understandable that Paramount took the step of hinging much of its promotion on the film's early scenes, which at first indicate a sinister home invasion thriller rather than a maddening biblical allegory.

Sitting somewhere between a western and a home invasion thriller, the film opens with a rogue Union soldier who commits a rape and covers his tracks by killing the innocent bystanders.

The result was another in a line of self - serious, recycled and tedious home invasion thrillers but writer / director James DeMonaco made the wise decision to up the ante on this second go round by taking us onto the streets and showing us how the many different classes experience the Purge in their own unique ways.

One of my most anticipated horror films of the year goes to Lionsgate's insane looking home invasion thriller You're Next from director Adam Wingard.

Thankfully, this second effort takes the wacky premise that this now - series was founded on and actually engages with it instead of turning into a generic home invasion thriller.

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.

is something like a home invasion thriller or a haunted house movie (or maybe both?).

This middle section of Detroit almost plays like a politically charged riff on a horror movie or a home invasion thriller, filled with glowering threats, claustrophobic close - ups and abrupt acts of brutality.

Breaking In This is an effective home invasion thriller about a woman, played by Gabrielle Union, fighting to protect her family from several maniacs.

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.

A different and original concept that's infused with a very fun home invasion thriller.

The home invasion thriller, once a sparsely populated sub-genre, has proliferated in the 21st century, perhaps reflecting our growing fear (note the simultaneous rise of the cyber-thriller) that there...

The second is Mike Flanagan's home invasion thriller Hush, which the streaming giant actually snapped up just before the festival began.

You're Next: You're Next overcomes a rocky opening half hour to become the best home invasion thriller to come around in ages.

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.

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.

It's a really cool twist on the home invasion thriller formula.

When: September 12th Why: «No Good Deed» may sound like your garden - variety home invasion thriller, but while it doesn't appear to offer anything new to the genre, it at least features a pair of great actors in Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson.

WHY: After taking the festival circuit by storm with their home invasion thriller, «You're Next,» the writer - director duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett seemed poised to deliver another cult classic with this low - budget genre flick.

I have a soft spot for home invasion thrillers.

«A rudimentary, B - grade home invasion thriller that's both highly entertaining and highly stupid» — Andrew Parker, The Gate

It's hard to tell who's more inept in the disastrous home invasion thriller «Breaking In,» the bumbling criminals or the filmmakers themselves.

Not exact matches

Eventually it all boils down to cliché, with home invasions by Terry, physical confrontations between Terry and Gabe, a hostage situation, a main character getting gunned down, and all the other standard thriller tropes that might excite the kind of audie

SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD Australia, United States, 2016 World Premiere, 85 min Director — Chris Peckover Chris Peckover, director of 2010's UNDOCUMENTED, returns to Fantastic Fest with this playfully twisted suburban Christmas thriller in which babysitter Ashley must protect twelve - year - old Luke during an unusual home invasion.

While speaking today with Spanish director Miguel Vivas, whose violent home - invasion horror / thriller Kidnapped is being released on VOD June 15th before...

Breaking In: Gabrielle Union doesn't get many chances to play a badass, so it's disappointing to hear Rad thinks this home - invasion thriller doesn't deliver on its potential.

Like the blue - and - black dress that went viral, it's a number of things: a home - invasion thriller that visualises the helplessness one feels reading online news; a nakedly honest depiction of the loneliness that comes with fame or being Jennifer Lawrence; and also a 16 mm portrait of the artist as a middle - aged Javier Bardem.

Back in 2008, The Strangers managed to mix home invasion movie tropes with fresh ideas to create an atmospheric thriller with one heck of a wicked ending.

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

Director Daniel Barber's second film — after «OAP on the rampage» thriller Harry Brown — is a home - invasion tale, only it's set during the American Civil War when a trio of women on a farm in the Deep South are forced to fend off a pair of mercenary Union soldiers.

The home - invasion thriller «Breaking In,» the tale of a young mom battling a quartet of burglars to save her children, is fairly brilliant Mother's Day programming (or counterprogramming), which is why it's a shame that the movie itself, starring a stern Gabrielle Union, isn't more fun.

Part softcore erotic thriller, part home - invasion nightmare, and a third part twisted dark comedy, Knock Knock defies easy classification.

With elements of Poe's The Tell Tale Heart, Don't Breathe transforms from a story of home invasion to a revenge thriller.