10 Home Invasion Movies Where The Invader Is The Victim

Vasilis Katsoupis' Inside is the single-hander of single-handers, offering up 105 minutes of nothing but Willem Dafoe bumming around a New York flat. The twist? It's not his flat, and he can't escape.

On art thief Nemo's (Dafoe, obviously) latest heist, he finds himself trapped inside a high-tech Times Square penthouse when the security code that was supposed to get him out causes the system to malfunction and lock him in, with fluctuating temperatures and all but no means of escaping. Stuck inside with only the spartan trappings of the ultra-wealthy, he has to fight to survive and attempt to create a way out for himself.

Leaning on various horror aesthetics as Nemo descends through various states of madness and the apartment revolts against him, Inside demonstrates just how little modern art and tech are worth when all you really need is a front door key, a toilet, and a square meal. Providing commentary on the hollowness of the art world, the film spends no short time inspecting the irony of having so many things that appear to be what you need - fruit, water, furniture - and none of it being any use. 

Meditative and surreal in turns, Inside challenges us to at first reject art, before embracing it as part of the everyday, with even Nemo's mounting pile of literal crap looking fit for the Tate by the end.