Sentences with phrase «of home invasion thrillers»
The film that first established Haneke as an international auteur name was Funny Games (1997), a lacerating, menacing parody of a home invasion thriller.
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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.
Eventually it all boils down to cliché, with home invasions by Terry, physical confrontations between Terry and Gabe, a hostage situation, a main character getting gunned down, and all the other standard thriller tropes that might excite the kind of audie
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!
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.
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.
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.
Instead of those tired old flowers or brunch, why not treat mom to a home invasion thriller this Mother's Day?
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.
With elements of Poe's The Tell Tale Heart, Don't Breathe transforms from a story of home invasion to a revenge thriller.
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.
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.
If that was the ultimate goal of this home - invasion thriller, then mission accomplished.
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.
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.
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» recycles that most basic of thriller ideas, the home invasion.
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.
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 Jackals.
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.of the «Best Movies Of 2016 That.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 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.
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...
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...
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).
V For Vendetta director James McTeigue takes a turn for the gritty with this home - invasion thriller about a seemingly ordinary mother (Gabrielle Union) who displays some extraordinary survival skills after she and her kids are attacked and held hostage by a gang at her late father's fortress of a mountain home.
Essentially merging the heist, home - invasion, and conspiracy - thriller genres into one overstuffed story, Firewall follows Ford as his family is captured by a group of ruthlessly well - organized goons led by Paul Bettany, who intends to extort Ford into cooperating with a high - tech bank - robbery scheme.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 homicide.
We've another two names joining the cast of producer Joel Silver's found - footage thriller HOME INVASION.
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.
WHY: After taking the festival circuit by storm with their home invasion thriller, «You're Next,» the writer - director duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett seemed poised to deliver another cult classic with this low - budget genre flick.
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 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.
Wingard's next directorial effort, You're Next, a darkly comedic home - invasion thriller, went on to premiere to ravenous reviews at the 2011 Toronto festival as part of the «Midnight Madness» section.