Sentences with phrase «in home invasion thrillers»

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 kidin 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 kidIn 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.

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.

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.

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

«Breaking In» recycles that most basic of thriller ideas, the home invasion.

Best - case scenario: A entertaining, trashy thriller with a good home invasion set - piece (hinted at in the trailer) as the climax.

In a potent blend of the horror, thriller and home - invasion genres, an estranged family attempts to save their son from a murderous cult in the terrifying psychological thriller JackalIn a potent blend of the horror, thriller and home - invasion genres, an estranged family attempts to save their son from a murderous cult in the terrifying psychological thriller Jackalin the terrifying psychological thriller Jackals.

Home - invasion thriller Breaking In landed in the chart behind Life of the Party, although it achieved a higher site averagIn landed in the chart behind Life of the Party, although it achieved a higher site averagin the chart behind Life of the Party, although it achieved a higher site average.

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

Sounds like a pretty simple premise, but this late -»60s thriller nailed the «home invasion» premise decades before it became so popular, thanks in large part to director From Russia With Love director Terence Young, Ms. Hepburn's excellent performance, and villains like Richard Crenna and a young, freaky Alan Arkin.

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...

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

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 e...

Not only does Breaking In look like a solid home - invasion thriller, it also looks like it's not taking itself too seriously.

Other highlights include Damien Powers's Killing Ground, a «straight - up, stripped - down suspenser» (Variety) about a camping trip gone wrong in the Australian bush; Caught, Jamie Patterson's subtle, otherworldly home - invasion pic starring Mickey Sumner; Pavan Kirpalani's Hindi head - trip Phobia; and Daniel Castro Zimbrón's The Darkness, a highly atmospheric post-apocaylptic thriller lensed by Diego García (Neon Bull, Cemetery of Splendor).

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.

Chris Peckover, director of 2010's UNDOCUMENTED, returns with this playfully twisted suburban Christmas thriller in which babysitter Ashley must protect twelve - year - old Luke during an unusual home invasion.

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.

Keanu Reeves plays a happily married man whose infidelity comes back to haunt him in Eli Roth's home - invasion thriller.

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 genrIn wagging his finger at the unsavory conventions of the home - invasion thriller, the Austrian scold produced the most intense, effective entry in the whole genrin the whole genre.

The insipid home - invasion thriller Breaking In begins mockingly, with a scene of a trim, seventyish man jogging through the city (in slow - mo, like something one might see in a pharmaceutical commercial) before meeting his untimely end via vehicular homicidIn begins mockingly, with a scene of a trim, seventyish man jogging through the city (in slow - mo, like something one might see in a pharmaceutical commercial) before meeting his untimely end via vehicular homicidin slow - mo, like something one might see in a pharmaceutical commercial) before meeting his untimely end via vehicular homicidin a pharmaceutical commercial) before meeting his untimely end via vehicular homicide.

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.

Like Happy Death Day, many of the year's highlights, which toyed with or injected life into often - tired subgenres, came in smaller packages, such as the home - invasion thrillers Better Watch Out, The Babysitter (another Netflix original), and Jackals; the clever zombie - in - the - desert flick It Stains the Sands Red (much better than the silly cannibal - in - the - desert - flick The Bad Batch); the flesh - eating family drama Raw; the blood - sucking confused - teen drama The Transfiguration; the sci - fi / fantasy / horror hybrids The Void, The Untamed, and The Lure, which also had elements of the musical; and the ultra-disturbing tale of youth Super Dark Times, about the unraveling of a group of friends after the accidental killing of a classmate, which offers a significantly more satisfying experience than It.

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