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
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