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The 10 Most Disturbing Home Invasion Movies
The 10 Most Disturbing Home Invasion Movies
The new Spanish thriller <em>Kidnapped</em> inspires us to look back at the films that made us want to take permanent vacations.
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This article is from 2011, so doesn't rank recent works like Don't Breathe (2016).




I feel like You're Next (2011) should be on this list, also solid. The Strangers was unexpectedly great I went into that one with low expectations.
High Tension (or Haute Tension if you like) is one of my favourite movies of all time. It was weirdly hard to find here for many years. Definitely amazing.
YEEEESSS!!! I love "You're Next". Criminally underseen. (I thought it should have been called "The Animals" back then.) I also love "The Strangers". "Kidnapped" is viciously fucked up in a way that really messes with audience expectations at the end. ("Funny Games" does something similar, but that movie annoys me a little more.)
I love "Haute Tension".
I might put "Martyrs" on the list (or as I call it, "Trigger Warning: The Movie"), though it only sets itself up as a home invasion movie before becoming something very different.
Also, "FRONTIER(S)" is like a French Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A kind of a home invasion movie.
"Don't Breathe" is lovely. It's a home invasion movie where the victims are the invaders. Basically a haunted house type movie: there is a bad place, do not go to the bad place, let's all go to the bad place.
Yeah I haven't seen that one yet it looks interesting.
What a great list! A few I haven't seen so am glad for recommendations. I am such a huge fan of both versions of Funny Games (I guess because they're essentially the same film). I think the first time I saw it (the original) I was up all night because my brain was so overwhelmed by it: the extreme violence you never get to see, the sweat-inducing tension, the breaking of walls, the idea randomness of it all. And perhaps that's what the best home invasion movies have in common: they're scary because it could happen to you. As Peter says in Funny Games, "you shouldn't forget the importance of entertainment."