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Nato And Remy’s Last Stand: Home Invasion Horror

With The Purge and You're Next right around the corner, Remy and I thought now would be an appropriate time to discuss "home invasion horror." You know, those films that show a family or group of people minding their own business in either their own house or someone else's, only to have some sick, twisted bastards show up and crank the horror knob up a few notches. Whether it's a robbery, for fun, in honor of Satan, or for any reason, home invasion films are effective because of the terrifying realism that anyone can break into your house at any time. Your home is supposed to represent safety, a sanctuary from the outside world if you will, so the utter thought that someone can just barge in and threaten your safety at will is prime material for a horror flick, causing nothing but irrational fear. Sorry, did you want to sleep tonight or something?

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So did you notice a trend in my choices? Out of all three examples, the perpetrators of these vile acts are teens or young adults. While ages are never given, it is safe to say that the guys in Funny Games are pretty young, and the kids in The Strangers are pretty young. Well, in this case we KNOW the villainous bastards of this movie are kids, but you don’t fully know until the end of the film. When the movie ends, the final shot is the kids, running from the house where they were just tormenting a couple, and getting on a school bus – a big, yellow, innocent school bus.

Wait, they just murdered two people and then went to school for the day?

Well, that is beyond fucked up. But this leads us to ask one of the greatest horror movie questions ever posed: Who could kill a child?

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