10 Home Invasion Movies Where The Invader Is The Victim

2. Coherence (2013)

Villains Bill Skarsgard
Metrodome Distribution

What do you do when your home dinner party is invaded by you and your friends? Probably something like what the characters of Coherence do.

One of the unsung heroes of science fiction, horror, and time-travel movies, James Ward Byrkit's home invasion plasters layer on layer of confusion over a dinner party between friends that soon turns ugly. A comet passes over, the lights go out, and a sinister and mysterious tale unfolds as doppelgangers descend upon the house, and the group discover themselves to be both victim and invader.

With parallel versions of the house existing simultaneously, and different versions of the group (in a number of distinct persons only) moving between houses as they attempt to investigate the sudden loss of quantum coherence, the main concern at the core of Coherence is trust - how much do they trust their friends, or themselves? 

While everyone is technically the same person they always were, the working theory is that only one of the now many realities can survive, and thus the individuals from all realities have a vested interest in making the surviving reality their home, descending into a state of nature and victimising their lookalikes in the process. 

If that sounds confusing, it's because it is. 

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