Home Sweet Home

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

First off I need to say this, the cinematography is the best part of this movie. It's honestly better then it needed to be. The movie starts off with a bunch of annoying fake jump scares but they seem to die down and the real horror starts at the mid point. The gore is well done. The acting is fine for slasher standards. Overall, and okay horror film that's a good time burner.

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.

I read a few good reviews about this one and decided to watch it. Now I want those 80 minutes of my life back..those 80 minutes that I spent on watching the disaster of a movie, which is Home sweet home. The beginning shows a mysterious man ,who is the invader and whose face is revealed only in the end,that too for a split second. The beginning itself drags for so long..if I'd known this earlier,I'd taken a quick nap through it. You feel the pressure build up a bit,then you are on the border of getting bored,then you are just plain bored..and even then,the movie is still dragging towards some "twist". An hour into the movie,and then you see some action,which is quite horrible ,but by then,you are so fed up,you don't care.There's "the" twist in the end,but I don't think even the actors cared about that one. It tries to give an art house film feel and that too,a boring one and yes,it succeeds at that.

Let me say first off that I did think the movie was A solid little home invasion thriller. However the direction style is extremely contrived. What you have here is a director that wants to show us just how good he can be but in truth the film looks and feels like someone rented Halloween and The Shining and basically said "Hey, I could do that." (I mean come on,that ominous shot of the front door before the couple arrive home is just so Kubrick that it comes off a little hacky) What's sad is that just minutes into the film you can tell that the writer and director are one in the same because if it wasn't then either a few of his brutally long and over indulgent shots or some of the inept dialogue would have been left on the floor(seriously how bad were those phone messages). The acting is on par with the budget, with some lines tasting like cardboard and others doing just enough to move us along at a grueling, not suspenseful, irregular pace. The slight twist at the end was OK but honestly, all the best things about this film have been done before and much better. Carpenter and his generation are sometimes accused of going too Hitchcock and if that's true then this film maker proves that when you make a copy of a copy ..it's never as bright as the copy.