Sentences with phrase «of home invasion movies»

To say You're Next is the Scream of home invasion movies might be jumping the gun.

Anyone who's seen their share of home invasion movies can easily predict every single plot point pretty much right after the opening credits.

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Home invasion movies go back as far as 1909, and there have plenty of them throughout the decades.

These are actors after all, but they're genial performers, convincingly communicating a lifelong bond that permits such an accessible invasion of privacy, making the plot feel less like a crude sitcom and more like a bawdy home movie that's spun wildly out of control.

Here was another home - invasion movie, in which it seemed as if the villains were simply pranking a couple for an extended period of time (one of the victims of the invasion was the only one to kill anyone until the climax).

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.

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.

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.

The pacing, the decor, the LPs on the endlessly running old turntable (cliché alert), and especially the spooky nature of the home invasion, all belong to an era when Stephen King and Brian De Palma ruled and movies such as Carrie, The Omen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Jaws defined the horror genre.

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.

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.

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.of the «Best Movies Of 2016 That.Of 2016 That...

In that light, this movie does deserve some credit for a few things: discovering a slightly clever twist on the usual home - invasion plot, providing a heroine whose techniques never stretch believability and only occasionally make us question her reasoning, and coming to an end just before the constant turning of the tables would start to seem too ridiculous.

We're not sure which home invasion movie to which Breaking In is comparable, but we do know Gabrielle Union stars as a single mom who relocates to a Malibu mansion and finds herself the target of four willing - to - kill criminals.

The end result is a shockingly entertaining thriller that's not only one of the most novel «home invasion» movies you'll ever see, but easily one of the best horror flicks of the year.

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...

While I thought the first movie had a bad ass concept of a night where all crime is legal, I was a bit disappointed that the movie was a simple home invasion type thriller.

I find home invasion movies to be some of the scariest ones out there in the horror genre.

What You Need To Know: The home invasion movie is a popular genre, but «The Keeping Room» promises to flip that category on its head on a number of levels.