Home Sweet Home

I've just seen this movie today in Lyon during the (tremendous) "Hallucinations Collectives" festival, presented by the author David Morlet himself. The session promised to be pleasant and I watched it in good mood. But I eventually felt sorry for him because I've found nothing good in this movie ! The whole scenario is only a tiny short movie pitch. The very few characters have no personality, I had no single reason to get attached to these caricatures of normality. The bad guy has no motivation, except the usual thrill of impunity, easy way to provide free horror. But there is actually no horror here, nothing traumatic. Despite the "home invasion" subject, which carries very strong intimate fears, the directing provides no tension, no suspense, no surprise. There actually is a final twist, but evidences are sown several minutes ahead and spoil the thing. The overall treatment is sooo slow that you really have plenty of time to think about this ending ! Needless to say I found no second degree, no subtext, no fantasy or message of any kind. In a few words, to me this movie is bad and cheap.

I like the home invasion premise but the killer made some stupid errors kinda like he wanted to get caught. I didn't like that part of it. Otherwise it was sorta entertaining. 4/10

Immediately after watching THE TORTURED a horror film whose main function relies upon a shock twist ending I caught this horror thriller entitled HOME SWEET HOME which also relies upon a shock twist ending . Despite the flaws to THE TORTURED it does feel nicely paced and structured but HSH suffers from being stretched out

The film opens with the camera voyeuristically roaming through the McAndrew house . The occupants aren't at home but an intruder is and spends the next twenty minutes walking around the house . Yes for twenty tedious minutes the audience are asked to watch a man walking around the inside of a house . Most relationships these days don't last twenty minutes so it's a chore watching twenty minutes of film where nothing happens and one wonders if the film is trying to kill it's audience through boredom . By the time the McAndrews do arrive home you might be beyond caring . That's if you're still conscious of course

The next hour of the film revolves around Sara McAndrew trying to escape the clutches of the masked intruder and being a horror film we're getting anything in the way of character motive or character development , we're asked to watch a woman in danger try and escape the hands of a masked menace . As I said it does try and have a twist surprise at the end but the rest of the film doesn't really have the legs to carry it that far and would have worked much better as a 15 minute short

"Home Sweet Home" is nice take on the "Home Invasion" genre. The film is structured quite differently than most other horror films. The beginning of this film is a lengthy and quite creepy sequence where the villain breaks into the home, checks it out, and settles in for the evening. There is real tension for the return of the owners and they do show up -- a young married couple coming home after an evening at the theater. They settle in briefly and then the uninvited guest makes his appearance known...

"Home Sweet Home" is way more effective than you'd expect. Part of it is the structure -- unlike many horror film, it doesn't spend 45 minutes making us try to know the victims. I know filmmakers to this in an attempt to make us like the victims and not want bad things to happen to them, but all too often it just makes them annoying. This film does it right -- the entire home invasion concept is enough to make us fear for the couple, and when they prove, after a brief time, to be a pleasant enough couple then BAM! It's on!

Lots to like about this flick. Unlike so many horror films, this film is well-lit and you can clearly see everything that is happening. The acting is outstanding all around. Much of the film is centered around the psycho versus the wife, and the actors nail it. Shaun Benson, in a virtually silent role, is creepy as the invader. And Meghan Heffern is wonderful as the terrorized wife -- you can really feel the fear. Many of the questions that you think are going to be left dangling are answered in a clever ending, so that means that from its creepy unconventional beginning to its shocking ending "Home Sweet Home" is a success.

Greatest flick ever? Nope. But definitely worth checking out.

First of all, when I first watched the trailer of the movie I didn't liked it and I didn't had high expectations about it. But, I decided to watch it because I love home invasion movies. Eventually, it was as bad as I had imagined and I didn't enjoyed it. The plot of the movie was kinda interesting, but not innovative because there are too many movies similar to this one. Sadly, the storyline wasn't well-written, nor well-explained and it was very simple. The characters weren't interesting, nor well-developed and they were annoying. The filming location of the movie was mainly inside a big house in the middle of nowhere. The casting was just fine and their performances were descent. I have to admit, it was a bloody movie and the killcount was brutal, even though there weren't many death scenes. Unfortunately, it wasn't an intense movie and there weren't any chase scenes in the house. Also, it wasn't a scary movie and there weren't any jumpscares. In my opinion, the opening scene was the worst part of the movie, because it was slow paced and boring. By the way, the intruder's mask was kinda creepy, lol. Overall, "Home Sweet Home" wasn't a nice home invasion horror film, it was uninteresting, nor suspenseful and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.