Home Invasion Horrors: A History and Analysis of Cinematic Break-Ins
Home invasion narratives have been around nearly as long as cinema itself, popularized by the silent era's "race-to-the-rescue" movies and classic Hollywood's "gangster raid" films, and influenced by the slasher and stalker sub-genres. They emerged as a fully formed sub-genre following the success of major releases like The Strangers (2008) and The Purge (2013), with more than 100 such films issued in the 2010s alone.

Commonalities and differences can be found in the home invasion films featuring criminals, stalkers, and psychopaths, in addition to the inverted and hybrid releases that revise established narratives. This book examines the history, cinematic and societal influences, and reasons for the popularity of home invasion films, offering potential allegorical readings of the narratives and a comprehensive list of these films.

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Home Invasion Horrors: A History and Analysis of Cinematic Break-Ins
Home invasion narratives have been around nearly as long as cinema itself, popularized by the silent era's "race-to-the-rescue" movies and classic Hollywood's "gangster raid" films, and influenced by the slasher and stalker sub-genres. They emerged as a fully formed sub-genre following the success of major releases like The Strangers (2008) and The Purge (2013), with more than 100 such films issued in the 2010s alone.

Commonalities and differences can be found in the home invasion films featuring criminals, stalkers, and psychopaths, in addition to the inverted and hybrid releases that revise established narratives. This book examines the history, cinematic and societal influences, and reasons for the popularity of home invasion films, offering potential allegorical readings of the narratives and a comprehensive list of these films.

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Home Invasion Horrors: A History and Analysis of Cinematic Break-Ins

Home Invasion Horrors: A History and Analysis of Cinematic Break-Ins

by Ryan Izay
Home Invasion Horrors: A History and Analysis of Cinematic Break-Ins
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Home Invasion Horrors: A History and Analysis of Cinematic Break-Ins

Home Invasion Horrors: A History and Analysis of Cinematic Break-Ins

by Ryan Izay

Overview

Home invasion narratives have been around nearly as long as cinema itself, popularized by the silent era's "race-to-the-rescue" movies and classic Hollywood's "gangster raid" films, and influenced by the slasher and stalker sub-genres. They emerged as a fully formed sub-genre following the success of major releases like The Strangers (2008) and The Purge (2013), with more than 100 such films issued in the 2010s alone.

Commonalities and differences can be found in the home invasion films featuring criminals, stalkers, and psychopaths, in addition to the inverted and hybrid releases that revise established narratives. This book examines the history, cinematic and societal influences, and reasons for the popularity of home invasion films, offering potential allegorical readings of the narratives and a comprehensive list of these films.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476693088
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 07/07/2025
Pages: 266
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.54(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

With over 20 years of experience as a film critic and journalist, Ryan Izay started as the Los Angeles representative covering press junkets and red carpets for the UK-based website, Real Movie News, in addition to working as a features writer for Screen Rant, developing list-based articles for Total Nerd at Ranker, and as a staff writer for the horror genre magazine Girls and Corpses. He is a senior adjunct professor in the cinematic arts department at Azusa Pacific University and works remotely for Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Establishing the Elements of the Home Invasion ­Sub-Genre
Setting
Characters
Plot
Themes
2. History of Criminal Invaders
Varieties of Criminal Home Invasion Films
Themes and Tropes
Classic Criminal Home Invasion Films
Modern Criminal Home Invasion Films
3. Twenty-First Century Criminal Home Invasion Films
The Home Invasion Explosion
Reasons for the Increase
Changes to ­Twenty-First Century Criminal Invasions
­Twenty-First Century Criminal Home Invasion Films
4. Psychopath Home Invasion Films
Elements of Psychopath Home Invasion Films
Early Psychopath Home Invasion Films
­Twenty-First Century Psychopath Home Invasion Films
Variations on the Anonymous Psychopath
5. Stalker Home Invasion Films
Elements of the Stalker Home Invasion Films
The Stalker Film Influences
Stalker Home Invasion Films
6. Sympathy for the Invaders: Inverted Home Invasion Films
Elements of the Inverted Home Invasion Films
Contextualizing Inverted Home Invasion Films
Inverted Home Invasion Films
Conclusion: Home Invasion Hybrids and Revisionist Reboots
Vampire-Home Invasion Hybrids
Supernatural Home Invasion Hybrids
Extraterrestrial Home Invasion Hybrids
Doppelgänger Home Invasion Films
Creature Feature–Home Invasion Hybrids
Home Invasions in Other Genres
The Future for Home Invasion Films
Chapter Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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