Sentences with phrase «of home invasion films»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.