10 Best Home Invasion Horror Movies
7. You're Next
Adam Wingard's You're Next is a ferociously singular home invasion film, taking the genre's formula and flipping it on its head in the most playfully brutal way possible.
Though on paper the premise seems totally ordinary - a family are attacked by masked assailants during a wedding anniversary getaway - the big twist is that protagonist Erin (Sharni Vinson) grew up on a survivalist compound, and has a Special Set of Skills to fight back against her aggressors.
Vinson's terrific central performance is matched by Wingard's creatively gnarly approach to violence, resulting in some of the genre's most memorable kills of the last decade.
Though hardly a masterclass of character work or storytelling, You're Next upends genre tropes with electrifying skill, and provides a welcome reply to the home invasion movie's mouldier tendencies.