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When Daniel (Matt O'Neill) finds his sister-in-law Liz (Andrea Sweeney Blanco) with his wife Jess (Sunny Doench) at their home wanting to move in for a "few days", he thinks that's his biggest problem, as Liz basically is trouble, as she's usually dealing with an asshole ex or addiction, or both, really. But then, four men (Richard Siegelman, Kipp Tribble, Kenny Yates, Scott Hamm) break into their home, quickly overpower Daniel, tie him to the pool table and torture him, while Jess is blissfully unaware of things enjoying a nice hot bath, and Liz, having witnessed everything, has had the good sense to hide under a bed, but with her cellphone signal being jammed, she has to helplessly witness as the four home invaders wait for Jess to come out of the bathroom and prepare to kill her ...

But why is this happening, and why exactly Daniel and Jess's place? In the fact the place was very randomly picked by a "guild" called the Locusts, who once a year have a home invasion night where the guild members are allowed three hours of fun with the inhabitants of whatever house, as long as they kill them in the end ...

A very cool variation on the home invasion genre, as the film after set-up grardually shifts perspective from the victims to the perpetrators - and really adds an extra-layer of nihilism to the proceedings that way, as presenting the villains of the piece as very reasonable people with no real urgency of doing what they do gives things a really chilling dimension, only heightened by their almost business-like attitudes. And thanks so a clever and cleverly structured screenplay this shift of focus works quite well, too - also helped by a subtle enough, suspense-heavy directorial effort and a very solid cast, all making this a very cool piece of genre cinema.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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