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65 Metascore. A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly-purchased house's safe room when three men break-in, searching for a missing fortune. Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam. Votes: 296,636 | Gross: $96.40M.
Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards. Director: Miguel Ángel Vivas | Stars: Fernando Cayo, Manuela Vellés, Ana Wagener, Guillermo Barrientos. Votes: 8,457
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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...
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game. Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Neve Campbell , Courteney Cox , David Arquette , Skeet Ulrich
- Parasite (2019) Director: Bong Joo-ho. Winner of several 2020 Academy Awards, Parasite isn’t technically a horror movie. Yet it has repeatedly been discussed as one for presenting its story of a family that ingrains itself in the home of another, exponentially wealthier family in the most harrowing terms possible.
- When a Stranger Calls (1979) Director: Fred Walton. When a Stranger Calls brilliantly brings to life the urban legend of The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs.
- Wait Until Dark (1967) Director: Terence Young. Few films on this list can induce and nurture anxiety as Wait Until Dark can. In a plot that’s at least partially similar to Don’t Breathe, three burglars come to the conclusion that the heroin they’re trying to get their hands on is inside a doll, and that the doll is in the home of a blind woman.
- Last House on the Left (1974) Director: Wes Craven. The Last House on the Left remains one of Wes Craven’s most effective horror movies. You can easily make the case that it was the most disturbing in a long career in that particular field.
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The Lonely Villa (1909), a silent short film featuring a home invasion. In Suddenly (1954), Frank Sinatra plays an assassin who takes over a family's home as a venue to target the President of the United States. There is a body of films that feature home invasions. Paula Marantz Cohen says, "Such films reflect an increased fear of the erosion ...
