10 Best Home Invasion Horror Movies
3. Hush
Hush is a potent lesson in how to make a taut, engaging movie on an incredibly tight budget.
Horror maestro Mike Flanagan (Oculus, The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep) made this mostly silent horror film for a mere $1 million, yet the ingeniousness of its execution quickly reels viewers in regardless.
The premise is simple: Maddie Young (Flanagan's wife Kate Siegel) is a deaf-mute woman who finds her solitary woodland abode attacked by a masked killer.
To his enormous credit, Flanagan exploits this unique hook for everything it's worth, immersing the audience in a near-wordless world while having the film's antagonist terrorise Maddie in ways specific to her condition.
If you're sick of relentless jump scares and tension chords, Hush is certainly the home invasion film for you, even if its true triumph is a spectacularly gutsy performance from Siegel.
Clocking in at a tight 81 minutes, it's a snappy, cleverly executed sprint of a film which transcends mere gimmickry to deliver pure white-knuckle tension.