Sentences with phrase «invasion thrillers»

I have a soft spot for home invasion thrillers.

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.

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 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.

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.

As his first major feature role independent of his siblings, Rory appeared as alongside Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix in M. Night Shyamalan's rural alien invasion thriller Signs.

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.

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.

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

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

What made Spielberg such a force in the 1970s was the way he ruthlessly renovated cheap old genres (the chase flick, the creature feature, the alien - invasion thriller) without winking at them or at the audience.

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.

Spawned from Patrick Jean's inventive short, Pixels has is a big, brash Roland Emmerich - style alien invasion thriller welded to a high - concept Sandler comedy.

First - time feature filmmaker Cornish invests plenty of energy and humour into this alien invasion thriller, apparently going for a Shaun of the Dead tone.

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.

Alien invasion thriller made in Derby, the arguable high point of which is an extended cameo from Jean - Claude Van Damme.

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

A home - invasion thriller with a twist, this fiercely clever film is both thought - provoking and terrifying, mixing a Twilight Zone sense of morality with skilfully developed menace and genuinely horrific violence.

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.

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?

If that was the ultimate goal of this home - invasion thriller, then mission accomplished.

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.

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.

With a relentless pace and seamless effects, this offbeat alien invasion thriller combines non-stop action with real emotion and provocative political themes.

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 Oscar - hopeful film will compete directly against the likes of the latest alien invasion thriller, The Darkest Hour - as well as director Stephen Daldry's inspirational melodrama, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - for the attention of holiday season moviegoers.

Austria's king of pain, Michael Haneke, has remade his own 1997 home - invasion thriller with Hollywood actors, preserving every chilly composition and scalpel - like edit as if to say, «I got it right the first time.»

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

Oculus was enjoyably spooky (give or take a slightly lousy ending), his Ouija prequel was surprisingly good, and his home - invasion thriller Hush even made our list of the «Best Movies Of 2016 That...

Maybe, though, it's just a run - of - the - mill home - invasion thriller that occasionally does a competent job of fooling us into thinking that it's different.

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

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...