Finishing off the day and taking a few years off my life was the slasher /
home invasion film «You're Next».
Looking back, it's sort of odd that Bryan Bertino's
home invasion film, The Strangers, never got a sequel back when it was released in 2008.
We're less than two weeks away from The Strangers: Prey at Night, a follow - up to Bryan Bertino's
home invasion film that...
Foremost among the comparisons, however, was Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997), except that van Warmerdam's
home invasion film was called «actually funny» by one critic at The Daily Telegraph.
This is
a home invasion film with an almost unbearable slow burn.
It is for this reason that no sub-genre of horror is more genuinely terrifying than
the home invasion film, which preys upon the very real fear of the safest place in your world being flip - turned into a living nightmare.
Countless films released in the last several decades fall under the home invasion umbrella, from 1967's Wait Until Dark to 2011's You're Next, but it wasn't until Bryan Bertino made his own contribution to the sub-genre that
the home invasion film truly reached its pinnacle of terror.
Home invasion films are by no means new.
Don't Breathe: DO N'T BREATHE is
a home invasion film, with a twist.
In other words, it more or less laid - out the formula for many
home invasion films to come.
Fans of
home invasion films like The Strangers will find plenty to enjoy here, with Flanagan's efficient direction and editing keeping the tension up thanks to the incredibly tight screenplay (written by both Flanagan and Siegel).
Not exact matches
Conspiracy charge against Lisi is related to a
home invasion at the Etobicoke bungalow of Ford's former classmate, Fabio Basso, where the alleged crack video in question may have been
filmed
«The Strangers: Prey at Night» not only follows in the original
film's footsteps, but those tread by France's «Them» and a variety of other
home -
invasion films.
The worst will happen, says Michael Haneke, in
film after
film: catastrophes personal and global, violent
home invasions (twice, if you count his American remake of Funny Games), evil spying and life - ruining guilt.
The
film might not revolutionize the
home invasion genre.
Home invasion type
films aren't my fave, since there's not really that much you can do to switch things up and make them different, but this doesn't look bad actually.
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.
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
film turns into a violent and disgusting
home invasion movie.
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
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.
Written by the Coen brothers, the 50s - set
film concerns a peaceful suburban community that is rocked by a
home invasion.
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.
After being held for release for two years by Lionsgate, the
home invasion horror
film You're Next has finally arrived.
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.
The
film is about a deadly vigilante, Dr. Paul Kersey (Willis), who is out to seek revenge after his wife and daughter were viciously attacked by criminals in a
home invasion.
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.
«One of the smartest and most terrifying
films in years, the
film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on
home -
invasion horror.
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.
Kupfer wanted to put a new spin on
home -
invasion films.
An interesting set - up and a great performance from Ethan Hawke can't save this
film from being nothing more than a boring
home invasion flick that doesn't offer anything new or original to its audience.
In fact, the original title of the
film «Maryland» is the name of the abode, that is stage to the
home -
invasion.
«The Den» is a powerful «cyber
home invasion»
film that taps into the same sense of vulnerability that made traditional
home invasion fright flicks like «The Strangers,» «You're Next» and «Funny Games» so powerful.
There is a definite
home invasion, but this is not a Home Invasion f
home invasion, but this is not a
Home Invasion f
Home Invasion film.
The most common complaint about the 2013's The Purge — even among those (like me) who otherwise liked the
film — is that it sort of wasted its very clever «all crime is legal for one night» premise by focusing on one fairly basic «
home invasion» story.
The
film — which you can drop in the
home invasion column of the horror genre — is 100 % organic, pulpy, fresh - squeezed terror in a bottle.
Centering on a family's holiday gathering in their family
home, Red Christmas is a to - the - point
home invasion slasher
film that has some interesting digressions and even more interesting subplots.
is a to - the - point
home invasion slasher
film that has some interesting digressions and even more interesting subplots.
Union will star in the
film which centers on a woman who fights to protect the ones she loves during a
home invasion.
While the
film sometimes conforms to horror genre tropes, it is, overall, a stylish, tense, and genuinely terrifying
film about a demonic
home invasion.
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.
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.
Finished in 2011 and finally getting a wide release, comes the new
home invasion horror
film You're Next.
The
film turned into a generic
home -
invasion thriller with light economic commentary.
It opens on a heist scene that reminds of Point Break and Heat (plus a thousand other heist
films), segues into a
home invasion / child - snatching that recalls Michael Douglas's own Fatal Attraction, proceeds into a cell phone cat - and - mouse like Ransom, ends with a cascade of particulate debris that brings to mind Witness, and touches base to varying degrees with Sliver, Nick of Time, Instinct, Nuts, and Awakenings in particular in its sloppy patient / doctor dynamic (and the naming of a secondary character «Dr. Sachs»).
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.
One of the smartest and most terrifying
films in years, YOU»RE NEXT reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on
home -
invasion horror.