10 Home Invasion Horror Movies With A Twist
4. Us (2019)
2022's Nope may not have been up to everyone's standards, but that's only because director Jordan Peele's previous film, Us (2019), set the bar so high.
Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o) takes her family to the beachfront home where she grew up, but, unable to shake off a traumatic experience from the past, grows concerned that something bad is on the way. And, what do you know, a family unit of near-mute, jumpsuit-clad doppelgangers break into their house and force the Wilsons into the fight of their lives.
The twists in Us are threefold. First, that the masked attackers, who quietly stalk, raid and hold their house hostage, look almost exactly like the Wilson family. Second, that these people are genetic clones manufactured by the government, who live underground and share their soul with their above-ground counterparts. And, third, that Adelaide's doppelganger is not her doppelganger at all, but the original Adelaide who got trapped underground years ago and has now launched an attack on the family home as a means of reclaiming her life.
Like all of Peele's film, this one is an unravelling of small horrors leading towards a terrible personal truth. But, let's be honest, nothing beats the tension of a family being trapped in their home by, well, themselves.