![]() ![]() This British film is a good example of how intelligence and care can be very adequate substitutes for big budgets and endless CGI. Its the chilling motive given behind the actions of the eponymous home invaders in The Strangers, and it showcases what makes the home invasion subgenre. It was made in the sixties but I can watch it again and again while bloated modern sci-fi films are seen and soon forgotten. It is a low key film and the people in, in the face of something alien, get on with their jobs as best they can. This makes them more like real people than a lot of films do. There are no featured reviews for Home Invasion because the movie has not released yet (). Each one is fallible and anxious, trying to cope with the unknown. Edward Judd is his usual morose self but is a plausible doctor. Calling the crime the worst she had seen in 17 years in the San Fernando Valley, a judge Friday sentenced a man to life without. Valerie Gearon as another doctor is great. The scene where she is discovered sprawling on the carpet, reading a text book and listening to music makes you warm to her instantly. She was an under used actor in British films. The plot is simple a strange man in a rubbery suit is knocked down in the road, taken to hospital and discovered to be an alien. Meanwhile two other aliens are searching for him. The atmosphere of suspense is quietly conveyed by the lighting and the black and white photography.Īt one point a force field is established around the hospital. There is no CGI to show this but car stops dead and kills the driver, the temperature goes up, the hospital workers react. ![]()
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