Home invasion movies tend to be pretty simple. A malevolent person breaks into someone's home and either terrorizes or kills them. It's one of the foundational tropes of horror, and despite its relative simplicity, it's also one of the most horrifying subgenres. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why that is. While movies about monsters or aliens or ghosts can be genuinely spine-tingling, they're often missing one thing — a sense of realism. Home invasion movies scare us so much because the possibility of something like that happening to us seems much higher than a monster attack. " What if it happened to you?" These films seem to ask.

For some moviegoers, that sense of verisimilitude makes the home invasion movie an immediate no-go. But for those of us who crave the feeling of ten

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