List of films featuring home invasions explained

There is a body of films that feature home invasions. Paula Marantz Cohen says, "Such films reflect an increased fear of the erosion of distinctions between private and public space... These films also reflect a sense that the outside world is more dangerous and unpredictable than ever before." Home invasion films are commonly thrillers and horror films. The home invasion subgenre goes as far back as D. W. Griffith's 1909 film The Lonely Villa.[1]

This list only covers films containing actual or attempted home invasions, and does not include movies based around assaults on other places such as Assault on Precinct 13, which dealt with a police station being invaded, or intrusion under false pretenses, such as Orphan.

List of films

FilmYearRef.
36 Ghante 1974
388 Arletta Avenue 2011
3615 code Père Noël 1989 [2]
Absurd (Italian: Rosso Sangue) 1981
2012
Alone in the Dark 1982 [3]
The Anderson Tapes 1971 [4]
Angst 1983
As Good as It Gets 1997
August Underground 2001
August Underground's Mordum 2003
August Underground's Penance 2007
Bad Influence 1990 [5]
The Bat 1926
The Bat 1959 [6]
Becky2020[7]
Better Watch Out 2016
Black Christmas 1974
Black Christmas 2006
Black Christmas 2019
Blind Alley 1939
Blood Simple 1985
Blue Steel 1990
Bone 1972 [8]
Breaking In 2018
1996
2013
Cape Fear 1962
Cape Fear 1991
Captain Magal1993[9]
Cherry Tree Lane 2010
1971
Clownhouse 1989
Cold in July 2014 [10]
2009
Corruption 1968 [11]
Count the Hours 1953 [12]
Creep 2014 [13]
Crimewave 1985
Cul-de-sac 1966 [14]
Curfew 1989 [15]
2005
1948
Deadfall 2012
Deadly Virtues 2014
Death Game 1977 [16]
Death Weekend 1976
Death Wish 1974 [17]
Death Wish II 1982 [18]
Demon Seed 1977 [19]
1955
Desperate Hours 1990
Devil in a Blue Dress 1995
Dial M for Murder 1954
Disorder 2015 [20]
Don't Breathe 2016 [21]
Don't Say a Word 2001
Dream Lover 1993
The Dress 1996 [22]
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
(German: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei) 2004
Emelie 2015 [23]
Extremities 1986
Eye for an Eye 1996 [24]
Fargo 1996
Farmer's Daughters 1973 [25]
Fatal Attraction 1987
Fear 1996
1992
Fight for Your Life 1977
Firewall 2006
Five Minutes to Live 1961 [26]
The Fugitive 1993
Funny Games 1997
Funny Games 2007
Game Over 2019
The Gift 2015 [27]
Grotesque 1988
Halloween 1978
1992
Hangman 2015
Hate Crime 2012 [28]
Heart and Souls 1993
Hell High 1989
Hellions 2015 [29]
1986
He Ran All the Way 1951
Hider in the House 1989
High Tension 2003
Home Alone (franchise) 1990
Home Sweet Home 2013 [30]
Hostage 2005
1980
Hush 2016 [31]
If I Die Before I Wake 1998
In Cold Blood 1967
Incident in a Ghostland 2018
Inside (French: À l'intérieur) 2007
In Their Skin 2012
Intruder 2016 [32]
Intruders (Alternate Title: Shut In) 2015
I Saw What You Did 1965
I See You 2019 [33]
I Spit on Your Grave 1978 [34]
John Wick 2014 [35]
Kala 2021 [36]
Keep Watching 2017 [37]
Key Largo 1948
Kidnapped (Spanish: Secuestrados) 2010
2022 [38]
Kitten with a Whip 1964
Knock at the Cabin 2023
Knock Knock 2015
Kristy 2014
Kung Fu Ghost2022[39]
Lady in a Cage 1964
Lady Stay Dead 1981 [40]
Lakeview Terrace 2008
Last House on Dead End Street 1977
1972
2009
Law Abiding Citizen 2009
The Lonely Villa1909
Malice 1993
Man Bites Dog (French: C'est arrivé près de chez vous) 1992 [41]
Manhunter 1986
Martyrs 2008
Martyrs 2016 [42]
Masquerade2021[43]
Mercy 2016
Memento 2000
Mischief Night 2013
Mother! 2017
Mother's Day 2010 [44]
Nancy Nancy 2006
The Neighbor 1993
The Night God Screamed 1971
1955 [45]
No Country for Old Men 2007
No Good Deed 2014
No One Will Save You 2023 [46]
Obsessed 2009 [47]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019
Of Unknown Origin 1983 [48]
Outlaws and Angels 2016 [49]
The Owners 2020 [50]
Pacific Heights 1990
Panic Room 2002
Parasite 2019 [51]
1967
1991
The Perfect Guy 2015 [52]
Play Misty for Me 1971 [53]
The Plumber 1979 [54]
2013
Raggedy Man 1981 [55]
Raising Arizona 1987
Red Dragon 2002
1994
Restraint 2008
Rolling Thunder 1977
Romper Stomper 1992 [56]
Saw 2004
Saw X 2023
Scary Movie 2000
Scream 1996
Scream for Help 1984
Season of the Witch 1972
See No Evil 1971
Signs 2002 [57]
The Silent House 2010 [58]
Silent House 2011
Single White Female 1992
The Sixth Sense 1999
Skyfall 2012
Sleep Tight 2011 [59]
The Slumber Party Massacre 1982
Sorry, Wrong Number 1948
Southbound 2015 [60]
2008
Static 2012
The Stepfather 1987
Strange Behavior 1981
The Strangers 2008 [61]
2018 [62]
Straw Dogs 1971
Straw Dogs 2011
Suddenly 1954
Supremacy 2014
Survive The Night2020
Sweet Savior 1971
Swimfan 2002 [63]
1974
Them (French: Ils) 2006
To Make a Killing 1988
There Goes the Neighborhood 1993
Tiger House 2015
Torso 1973 [64]
The Town That Dreaded Sundown 1976 [65]
Trespass 2011
Unbreakable 2000
The Uninvited Guest 2004 [66]
Unlawful Entry 1992
Us 2019
Varathan 2018 [67]
Vigilante 1983 [68]
Violent Night 2022 [69]
Visiting Hours 1982 [70]
Wait Until Dark 1967
When a Stranger Calls 1979
When a Stranger Calls 2006
When a Stranger Calls Back 1993
White Settlers (Alternate Title: The Blood Lands) 2014 [71]
Wolves at the Door 2016 [72]
Wonderland 2003
You're Next 2011

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  4. https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E04E6DA103FEF34BC4052DFB066838A669EDE Review of The Anderson Tapes
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  9. News: Mannath. Malini. January 17, 1993. Pathetic. 7. The Indian Express.
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  37. News: Verhoeven . Beatrice . Bella Thorne's Home Invasion Thriller 'Keep Watching' Lands at Screen Gems . . October 30, 2015 . 2016-09-16.
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  43. Web site: 2021-07-28. Watch: Scary New Clip from Home Invasion Nightmare MASQUERADE Starring Bella Thorne. 2022-01-29. Dread Central. en-US.
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  49. News: Review: 'Outlaws and Angels,' a Cross Between Western and Home-Invasion Horror . Daniel M. . Gold . . July 14, 2016 . 2016-09-19.
  50. News: Navarro. Meagan. [Review] 'The Owners' Puts Bizarre Spin on Home Invasion Thriller]. Bloody Disgusting. 2 September 2022. 10 March 2024.
  51. News: 'Parasite' Is a Hilarious, Terrifying Home Invasion Thriller Like You've Never Seen Before . . May 22, 2019 . 2021-12-26.
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