Naomi Watts and Tim Roth play a loving husband/wife team who, along with their young son, are held under the psychotic control of two sadistic, seemingly yuppie douchebags (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet). In the same breath, though, it’s just as skillfully acted and thematically devastating as its predecessor. We’d tell you to lock your doors, but that’d be pointless now, huh?ĭid Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke need to remake his 1997 gut-puncher Funny Games for American audiences in shot-for-shot fashion? Not really, and, truthfully, this stateside version of the controversial writer-director’s most polarizing film adds little to nothing in the way of fresh ideas or plot revisions. Obviously, we’re not talking about porno flicks, but, rather, the 10 Most Disturbing Home Invasion Movies. Several other movies have made it even tougher for us to sit home alone on Friday nights.
Kidnapped is a battering ram on one’s nerves, but it’s not the best of its kind. A trio of criminals disrupt a family’s first night in their new home, holding the fam captive until things head south and people die, savagely. The latest entry into horror’s “home invasion” subgenre comes directly imported from Spain: Kidnapped, a vicious assault of a flick that presents its unflinching coldness in 12 single-take sequences (and opens in limited theatrical release, as well as on Video On Demand, this Friday). But, time and time again, cinema has scoffed at such a lily-livered outlook by staging some of the craziest attacks and tensest action right inside households that resemble the ones we lived in as rugrats. Growing up, kids are taught that a person’s house is his or her safe place, the haven where life’s ills can’t infect one’s well-being. As much as we appreciate the wet side of the latter, the former lesson is rather unsettling. And that hot chicks with fake boobies almost always take a shower before dying in some horrific manner. If horror movies and thrillers have taught us anything, it’s that door locks are useless.
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