Hush

2016 is the year of disabled home invasion movies. I wait with bated breath for "Duh".

It's not the cliched premise that offends me, although this is truly an insultingly generic piece of shit. Rather, it is the complete lack of any tension. You can telegraph how this is going to progress from the moment you hit play. The helplessly stupid characters and lifeless expository dialogue only make this worse.

Subverts most home invasion genre tropes by making the lead character disabled and the killer very hatable from the get-go. He just wants to mess with her before making the kill, which is very sinister and different than usual. Flanagan and Siegel play some pretty good tricks on the viewer here. One of them legitimately got me! It's not a perfect film, but it's very investing and a lot better than it has any right to be. Very chilling and definitely best viewed with the lights off.

I can't believe I didn't hear about this! Sorry. It's been a long day. The negative reviews here won't make me hush up about this. Like Flanagan's Oculus this is better than it should be. And that's the truth aural eat my hat. I mean or I'll eat my hat. Very long day indeed.

Sharp, brisk invasion horror with good central performances, some good ideas and some likeably nasty moments. Tense and unpredictable. Worth a look.