Last Straw is a home invasion thriller set in a diner… so a diner invasion thriller? Not sure that’s a subgenre… but anyway, it starts out strong and then makes a script blunder and just barely recovers. It’s about a … Continue reading
Fear the Night is a home invasion thriller that struggles to find anything new or interesting to do or say in its chosen sub-genre. About the only saving grace is a fairly forbidding (if sporadic) performance from Maggie Q. The … Continue reading
Rented (on iTunes, once again) the new thriller/suspense flick Becky. This is what you get when Home Alone is honest with the violence perpetrated on the bandits… or if John McClane is secretly a twelve year old girl. And a … Continue reading
The first of two movies that came out this weekend for Mother’s Day is a touching tale of a mom who has to save her children from a home invasion / robbery. It’s touching? It’s called Breaking In and it’s … Continue reading
Checked out the new “city folks go to the country and run into trouble” suspense film Traffik. That’s Traffic with a K… probably because there was a Traffic (about the drug trade) in the early 2000s… not that anyone will … Continue reading
Checked out another streaming rental (on iTunes) called Better Watch Out. It is advertised as a Christmas-based home invasion horror/suspense film and that’s more-or-less accurate… though the villain isn’t an Evil Santa as you might expect from the title. Like … Continue reading
Checked out the creatively titled Netflix original The Babysitter last night. To my surprise after watching it, I saw that it was directed by McG… oh how the marginal have fallen? Maybe… this isn’t his best film but it’s hardly … Continue reading
Checked out the new reverse home invasion movie Don’t Breath, an insanely tense suspense horror movie. Three burglars break into a blind Iraqi war veteran’s isolated home, intent on stealing his stack of cash. Unlike most movies of this kind, … Continue reading
Krampus is a new Christmas horror comedy that released this weekend with limited advertising… but it looked like it had potential. It is based on the Germanic folk tale of Krampus, an evil spirit known as Santa’s shadow. If you … Continue reading
Saw the new home invasion / horror flick You’re Next… which looks like every other home invasion flick ever made (The Strangers, The Purge, Funny Games, etc.) and proceeds to be one of the worst movies of the year with … Continue reading