10 Home Invasion Movies Where The Invader Is The Victim
Sure, they kicked down the door and killed your family, but criminals can be victims too!
The reason many of us find the home invasion movie so irresistible is it strikes right at the heart of all our fears, bringing the horrors of the outside world to bear on the one place we are supposed to be safe. It's scary, it's exciting, and it's not happening to us, so we can watch with unfettered glee!
Over the years, we have seen many fearsome invaders tearing up the ol' homestead and putting more than just the after-dinner drinks on ice, with Stanley Kubrick's Droogs stopping in for a flying visit, the underclass of America kicking down Kevin McCallister's door, and horror giants like Michael Myers and Ghostface making victims' houses their home-from-home.
Equally, we have seen a whole host of victims who have come out the other side in pieces, if they survive at all. And yet, sometimes it isn't the homeowner who is on the receiving end of whatever grim fate these films might promise. Sometimes it's the invaders themselves.
Intruders wandering into a murder house, art thieves falling prey to their own desires, doppelgangers getting a taste of their own medicine, and common thugs not counting on a higher class of criminal - the following are ten home invaders who become the victim.
10. Intruders (2015)
It's the day of your deadbeat brother's funeral, and his equally deadbeat buddies come around looking for the dolla-dolla bills you've been saving for a rainy day. What do you do? Probably not this.
Adam Schindler's home invasion horror Intruders assembles a cast of minor faces to launch an assault on an agoraphobic woman's home that backfires in a big way when they get a whole grisly lot more than they had banked on. But then, why would they have banked on her being a serial killer's sister?
Turns out house-bound Anna (Beth Riesgraf) was helping her now-deceased frère Conrad (Timothy T. McKinney) satisfy his primal needs - and not in the Flowers in the Attic kind of way.
No, in the years following their abusive father's death, Anna played participant and voyeur to her departed brother's brutal killings in their fully trapped-out murder house. Thus, when the bad boy gang come a-callin', she unleashes hell on them, with broken fingers, popped kneecaps, trick staircases and an all-consuming fire to really bring the house down.