I had problems with this. Technically it was quite impressive- I liked the long takes, the split screen, the clever incorporation of practical effects. That stuff felt fresh, but otherwise it was rather "been there, done that" as far as the home invasion genre (not to mention, shades of a certain Gaspar Noe film!)
It clearly wanted to be a "realistic" home invasion movie, but it never achieved that for me.
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e.g. the utterly stereotyped bad guys, the cop scene (that guy might be even more useless than the cops in Human Centipede), and the financially motivated head baddie getting out of a crashed car, returning to the house, and transforming into one of The Strangers when in reality he would have been half way to Albania if he could still walk
Plus either the acting was iffy or it was the fact that my VOD version was dubbed, but the performances failed to communicate the family's nightmare in a believable way. Versus say the Funny Games remake, which as unnecessary as it may have been, still completely sold me on what they were going through. If I don't buy the reality of their situation, the whole thing falls apart.
Some good visceral shit in the last ten minutes though, no denying that. And it ended strong, with that ridiculously mean spirited final shot broken by abrupt black/song/credits. By the way, home invasions happen all the time in real life, so it probably wasn't deliberate, but some of the details in this movie had eerie echoes of this incredibly horrific story I remember hearing about on the news.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/connecticut_doctor_whose_family_eWPz3N9foeiSbXiWwlizKJ/0
This movie was pretty awsome if u like the 80's B horror. Its on Netflix
Where the hell are u gonna find gravey flavored condoms in any other movie ...........huh............... I LOVE U TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was very excited to see the American Reunion movie. I saw American Pie just after college and remembered it was quite funny. Jim, Michelle, Oz, Heather, Stifler reunite for their high school...
this is the song to have fun on.
