Even if you've never had it actually happen, chances are there was that one night you or your significant other heard a strange noise and thought one of the most unsettling thoughts one could have. You thought someone was in your home uninvited. Odds are no one was. However, in horror movies, and thrillers alike, there usually is someone there. What happens after that is the subject of this week's Thursday Movie Picks hosted by Wanderer at Wandering Through the Shelves. It just so happens I've watched a few of these, lately.
Don't Breathe
(2016)
The home invasion movie is turned on its ear in this one. For starters, it's told from the point of view of the invaders. Next, the tables get turned on them. Most impressively, we don't know how we feel about it. Hell, we don't know how we feel about anybody in this movie. And it still keeps us glued to it. (Full Review)
Hush
(2016)
A woman living alone is terrorized by a masked man right outside her home. He lets her know that he's really just toying with her because she's different than his previous victims. She's deaf. What we get is a cat-and-mouse for the ages. (Full Review)
Breaking In
(2018)
The home in question is one that our heroine is trying to sell off after just inheriting it. That means lots of phone calls to brokers, agents, and the like. She steps outside to talk business on her cell. Of course, she finds herself locked out and the bad guys inside with her kids. Yeah, she has to try to break in. (Full Review)
We share a pick in Don't Breathe. That is an awesome film. I haven't seen the other two though Hush does have an intriguing premise.
ReplyDeletePlease check out Hush. The premise is great and it is very well done.
DeleteYou are the 3rd person to pick Hush. This is the movie for this week I believe. I haven’t seen any of these because I know I would be scared out of mind.
ReplyDeleteBreaking In is more of an action-y thriller, so you might like that, but it is easily the weakest of my three picks.
DeleteWe match on Don't Breathe and Hush! I never saw Breaking In. To be honest Home Invasion movies make me so uncomfortable that I don't watch many.
ReplyDeleteBreaking In is only okay, but it's not a horror flick at all, so it probably won't give you the creeps like the other two.
DeleteI also picked Hush! That film is so good. I haven't seen the others but Don't Breathe is on my list.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely see Don't Breathe. Love that one.
DeleteBoth Hush and Don't Breathe have been on my list since they came out, but I haven't seen them. Breaking In looks to be close to "so bad it's good" territory.
ReplyDeleteI highly recommend Hush and Don't Breathe. Breaking In definitely heads in that direction.
DeleteI've seen none of these but home invasion films aren't really something I seek out, too disquieting. They all sound suspenseful for what they are.
ReplyDeleteI had to reach back to ones I've stumbled across trying to see a certain performer or director's work and managed to come up with these three.
He Ran All the Way (1951)-After a failed stickup during which he kills a cop Nick Robey (John Garfield) ducks into a local public pool house where he strikes up an acquaintance with Peg Dobbs (Shelley Winters). Upon leaving he offers her a cab ride to her home and she invites him in. Discovering he’s pursued he takes Peg and her family hostage leading to a tense standoff holding the police at bay while terrorizing the family. This was the great Garfield’s final film before the stress of being blacklisted lead to his fatal heart attack at only 39.
The Desperate Hours (1955)-On the run after a prison break Glenn Griffin (Humphrey Bogart), his brother Hal (Dewey Martin) and Sam Kobish (Robert Middleton) break into the suburban Indianapolis home of businessman Dan Hilliard (Fredric March) and his family and take them hostage while they wait for Griffin’s moll to show up with loot for a getaway. What is supposed to be only a few hours stretches into nerve jangling days as the woman doesn’t show. William Wyler directed thriller is a tense suspenser. Badly remade in the 80’s.
Cul-de-sac (1966)-George (Donald Pleasance) and his much younger French wife Teresa (Françoise Dorléac) live in an isolated castle on a remote tidal island. American gangster Dickey (Lionel Stander) fleeing a botched robbery with his wounded sidekick Albie (Jack MacGowran) cross the causeway at low tide and take over the castle but then the tables turn. Roman Polanski directed this strange thriller with both dramatic and comic overtones. Leading lady Dorléac was Catherine Deneuve’s sister and a rising international star before she was killed in a car crash the year after this was made.
Haven't seen any of those. The Desperate Hours is the only one that was really on my radar, so I do plan on seeing that one.
DeleteDon't Breathe is the only one of those I saw and it was so well done! Definitely one of the better thrillers in recent years
ReplyDeleteYes, it is! I would suggest you see Hush, as well.
DeleteDon't Breathe is on my to-watch-list, heard good things about it.
ReplyDeleteHope you get to it soon.
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