The Strangers (2008)
Our home is generally conceived as a sanctuary, a warm, comfortingly familiar bubble of security designed to protect us from the dangers and uncertainties of the outside world. As long as we lock our doors and windows, nobody else can infiltrate it, and if we've done nothing to earn the ire of others, why would anybody want to? Right? But what if we happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, even if said "wrong place" is our very own home? What if we have done absolutely nothing wrong to anybody, but there just so happens to be a certain group of depraved individuals who thrive on causing pain and terror to the most innocent, unsuspecting human beings who have done nothing more than simply exist in their surrounding area? And they do it just because they can, because they enjoy it, because the selected targets were home. That is the unnerving premise examined to its fullest, bleakest potential in writer-director Bryan Bertino's tense, nerve-racking, unrelent...