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After a serial killer begins targeting students in Perugia, a group of women decide to head for the hills and spend some time at a country villa. In the tradition of giallo, expect the blood to run bright red, and the clothes to be sparse. There is not a single bone of conventionality in Michael Haneke’s admittedly disturbing and utterly frustrating work ‘Funny Games’. It is frustrating mainly because it doesn’t play to the audience’s whims and desires.
Along with their sister and the whole house, they’re thrown into space with strange dangers and consequences for every move in the game. The calls keep coming and, somehow, the caller seems to know a lot about the girl. Black Christmas will keep you on the edge of your seat guessing whether the mysterious caller is someone within them.
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Like Hush, Don't Breathe uses the idea of sensory deprivation to heighten the scares. This time the invaders are the "heroes." This trio might be trying to rob an old man in his house, but it turns out he is a psychotic former special forces operative who has no intention of letting them leave alive. This movie is directed Fede Alvarez, who helmed the Evil Dead remake and the recent Girl In the Spider's Web, and features a terrifying lead performance from Avatar's Stephen Lang. On a purely practical level, it's easy to see why writers and directors are so drawn to these films.
If you can accept that this premise has at least some plausibility, you’re going to be surprised by how impactful this movie can be. While Hider in the House does sometimes fly a little too close to being unintentionally hilarious, the movie still hits some nice, unsettling notes. Busey — a very good actor whose reputation for being, well, Gary Busey — gives a committed, intense, and surprisingly sympathetic performance.
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And a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night. A woman takes revenge on the man who invades her home and tries to rape her. After her humiliated husband kills himself, an embittered pregnant widow loses her child, and embarks on a mission of vengeance against a woman and her family. This iconic Western paired Paul Newman with Robert Redford , with the duo starring as the eponymous outlaw heroes who have a knack for robbing banks.
Inside pits our expectations against a void that represents the pure and utterly horrifying unknown. This is a powerful example of the home invasion plot marrying with a serious mystery to create something that drives our attention ever forward. Even as we know that we may not like what happens when everything finally comes to a head. From the indie video game to the dominating AAA that needs a 1000Gb day one update, we’ve got you covered.
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Starring Hollywood heavyweights, Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster, Sorry, Wrong Number is a slick film-noir released in 1948 and set in New York. The story is told in a series of flashbacks and is almost played in real time. David Fincher directed this 2002 crime thriller, starring Jodie Foster and a pre- Twilight Kristen Stewart. It tells the story of a mother and young daughter trapped inside their panic room, after three criminals force entry into their newly purchased property. The French movie Them keeps it simple, but is an incredibly effective shocker.
While not a home invasion movie in the same sense as something like The Purge, Rosemary’s Baby possesses all the same essential considerations. The main difference here is that many of the home invasion movies featured in this article involve a deliberate attack by outsiders. The director of Se7en and The Game probably knows what he’s doing when it comes to suspense. There’s a good ending that takes advantage of the film’s strongest points, although this is another example of Hider in the House going for something ambitious and deranged. While this movie isn’t the first one to try this, it’s clear that everyone quite liked Don’t Breathe’s subversions of their expectations. The Trip can feel a bit like someone brought together two very different movies, and then managed to make them work together quite beautifully.
Home Invasion has long been a sub-genre predominantly installed within the horror category and rightfully so. Home invasion occurs when someone unlawfully gains entry to a private dwelling in order to commit a violation upon the resident. What starts out as simple online chatting between an early-teens girl and a 32 years old guy, leads to the girl tying him up in his house and raiding it for evidence of him being a pedophile. Every single thing that follows, has been orchestrated by the 14 years old girl. Until the very end of the movie, the couple has no idea what they are up against. Baron along with his henchmen breaks into the Sheriff’s wife, Ellen’s home with intention of killing the President who will be visiting their town named Suddenly.
Also it brings in an element of mystery with its subtitles that is so peculiar of foreign language films, in this case Romanian. Made on a shoe string budget it has a very art house look and delivers subtle scares. In a couple of scenes the assailants come face to face with their targets and takes advantage of their young age to escape from being overpowered physically. It was marketed as a film based on a true event and found acceptance from the audiences and critics alike. Few directors working today have made as many bonafide classics as Steven Spielberg – and this tremendous film from 1982 remains one of his very best. The history is folded in, to a typically Almodóvarian concoction, with elements of thriller, comedy and melodrama.
One of the best horror remakes, Dawn of the Dead updates George A. Romero's classic zombie story while adding its own take on the tale. Greatly increasing the cast beyond the original's four, the film follows a diverse group of survivors as they attempt to ride out the zombie apocalypse while hiding inside a shopping mall. A throwback to the grindhouse era, VFW is greatly enhanced by its crew of gruff actors, which includes Stephen Lang, Fred Williamson, and William Sadler. As the screen legends decimate any junkie unfortunate enough to enter their bar, viewers cannot help but watch on in glee as the film revels in its parade of blood and gore. In this superb, gutsy thriller, the director brilliantly constructs suspense by letting the viewer see more than what the victim can. Then, ingeniously, he throws us into the same position as our on-screen hero, as Suzy smashes all the lights, leaving us all in complete darkness.
There are few types of horror film more simple, yet more scary, than the home invasion movie. It's a sub-genre that uses an incredibly straightforward premise and yet taps into the most primal fear for so many of us. While home invasion films are not always horror movies, films like Parasite make it impossible to ignore just how powerfully these movies can tap into our anxieties. Parasite strives to create the most complex variation of a home invasion in a movie yet, and they have succeeded.
Wait until Dark is an outstanding tight-knit shocker, that culminates in a pinnacle of suspense and terror. In this town lives the Benson family, which contains Widow Ellen, her 8 year old son Pidge, and Pop, the boy’s grandfather. With the tranquil town well-guarded by the gallant sheriff Todd , the Benson family see no real cause for alarm when they get a knock at the door from the FBI. The following films all contain instances of home invasion, some more than others. As one of the most crucial ingredients in these movies is tension, I have tried not to include spoilers but as ever, proceed at your own risk. Alysson Paradis plays Sarah as a pregnant mother due to give birth the next when a strange woman calls upon her home and terrorizes her with the aim of taking her unborn child.
Especially by the time Arkin discovers a powerful force of evil has already made plans for the home he’s breaking into. The Collector sets up its remarkable premise quite well and doesn’t let us down with too much ambition. However, Max doesn’t just wait for Sam in the parking lot with a tire iron. Max begins a slow-burn vengeance that seeks to destroy Sam’s career and life wholesale.
Oftentimes, film noir mysteries were purposefully baffling, focusing on the investigation itself while the results amounted to very little. It was a comment on the eroding clarity and morality of the time, stemming from the existential crisis occurring in America following World War I. Many times the protagonist would find themselves back where they started. Guy Pearce's tattooed widower bent on revenge finds himself at the mercy of his own past rage, unable to realize he's tricking himself.
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