10 Underappreciated 90s Thrillers You Must Watch

2. Unlawful Entry

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20th Century Fox

Unlawful Entry makes you frustrated, if a figure of authority with the autonomy and ability to ruin your life, personally, professionally and in all other areas decided to do so at any cost then how, beyond sinking to their level, would you be able to prevent it.?

This is the position Kurt Russell, as Michael, finds himself in. He and his wife Karen, played by Madeleine Stowe, suffer a home invasion. A couple of Officers attend the scene, one of them, Officer Pete Davis, played by Ray Liotta, takes a personal interest in ensuring the safety of the couple.

As the film progresses, we witness an incredible transformation in Liotta from a friendly neighbourhood police officer to a dangerous and powerful villain. His actions, juxtaposed with his outgoing personality is particularly unnerving. The way he talks of his partner to a class room full of children compared to things he does later in the film marks him as a terrifying sociopath.

The primary cast is great, but Liotta is excellent, doing what he does best with characteristic intensity. In a scene during which he answers an alarm call, appearing in the doorway of the couples’ room in the middle of sex, his pause before he flicks his torch on is unsettling to say the least.

It remains a very taut thriller all the way, only when it goes in to overdrive toward the end does it lose some of that tension.

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