From AICN, This review will be relatively spoiler-free. The trailer for the movie pretty much sums up the plot of the film and you get exactly what they advertise, no more no less - for whatever that's worth to you. A couple in an isolated house is terrorized by multiple masked people with no apparent way to escape. But does it work? Is it scary? Is it believable? For the most part, I would say yes to all 3 questions.
A film like this wants to put the viewer in the shoes of the victims, to make you think that these horrific events could happen to you and to get you just as scared as the people in the movie. The camera work is never too dark, too shaky, or too close-up. Wide shots of empty rooms and the woods are scary enough when you know somebody is there, somewhere.
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I suppose I'm glad it's good, but I'm having the same block with creepy hostage movies that people are having with the old Torture Porn subgenre. And it's basically for the same reason; these hostage movies are the psychological version of torture porn, and I hate bullies.
I guess someday I'll have to screen this and also Funny Games if I'm going to be a serious student of horror, but I will do so cringing.
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