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Jan 5, 2023 · Home invasion films, like You’re Next or The Strangers, may not seem as scary when compared to films like The Conjuring. However, the sub-genre is the most realistic, despite large-scale...
May 13, 2024 · Brian Keiper. Home invasion has been a part of horror movies practically from the beginning. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Nosferatu (1922), Dracula, and Frankenstein (1931) all...
- Brian Keiper
- Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Director: Anatole Litvak. Adapted from her own radio play by Lucille Fletcher, this film noir cleverly revolves around a series of phone conversations.
- Straw Dogs (1971) Director: Sam Peckinpah. Tied with the idea of protecting one’s home are macho ideas of man as the designated defender of his supposedly weaker wife and children.
- When a Stranger Calls (1979) Director: Fred Walton. It’s impossible to talk about home invasion films without mentioning Wes Craven’s masterpiece Scream and its flawlessly executed opening sequence.
- Home Alone (1990) Director: Chris Columbus. On the poster for Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin makes a face like Munch’s The Scream, and the film has evoked for generations of traumatised viewers feelings of dread not too dissimilar to those captured by the famous Norwegian painting.
Apr 10, 2021 · With the ’70s and early ’80s basically being known as the “Golden Age of Serial Killers,” many home invasion films were loosely based off the stories of these real-life villains.
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Wait Until Dark
This is one of the original home-invasion movies, and it even earned Audrey Hepburn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress — a rare feat for a horror film. Sam Hendrix (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) and his blind wife Susy (Audrey Hepburn) accidentally harbor a doll that was used to smuggle heroin to New York City. Criminals show up at the Hendrix home to retrieve the doll but find that it’s been misplaced. This leads to a game of cat-and-mouse as Susy fights off the attackers alone in her apar...
Last House on the Left
In Wes Craven’s exploitation film, friends Mari and Phyllis are unknowingly led to their deaths while attempting to buy weed from prison escapees. After the four criminals sexually assault and murder the girls, they wind up at a nearby home where the owners allow them to stay the night, believing the gang to be traveling salesmen. After seeing pictures of Mari, they realize they’re staying in their victim’s house. Mari’s parents also become aware of the predicament after finding bloody belong...
Black Christmas
Black Christmas frequently graces greatest-horror-movie lists and it’s cited as an inspiration for John Carpenter’s Halloween. It tells the story of a sorority house terrorized by a man hiding in the attic. The killer is credited as “The Moaner” in the original film but has come to be known as Billy based on repeated mutterings of this name. Unlike many modern-day slashers, Black Christmasfocuses heavily on the script and character interactions — Margot Kidder won Best Performance by a Lead A...
Don’t Say a Word
A memorable scene in this psychological thriller involves a home invasion at the residence of child psychiatrist Dr. Nathan R. Conrad (Michael Douglas). His wife and child are threatened by seemingly all-seeing criminals who promise to kill them if Conrad cannot extract information from one of his patients. Conrad takes drastic measures to try to get to the bottom of what his patient (Brittany Murphy) knows and why people are so desperate for the information.
Enough
A kind of reverse home invasion movie that follows Slim (Jennifer Lopez) as she escapes from her abusive husband Mitch (Billy Campbell). When Mitch tracks her down again and again, Slim realizes that the only way this will end is if she can stand up to him herself. After spending time gaining strength and training in hand-to-hand combat, Slim breaks into Mitch’s house and confronts him and the two fight to the death.
Panic Room
Panic Room is a legendary home-invasion tale with more academic analysis than many others on the list. The film’s creative team and cast were filled with Academy Award winners, including director David Fincher, lead actress Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, and editor Angus Wall. Newly divorced Meg (Jodie Foster) and her 11-year-old daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) move into a new home in NYC’s Upper West Side. The previous owner was a millionaire whose grandson Junior (Jared Leto) i...
Oct 25, 2023 · Home-invasion movies are driven by a universal fear: Who hasn’t worried about someone breaking into their home with malicious intent? It’s why creaks and bumps scare you when you’re home alone....
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After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.
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