Derivative trash

Rating: 3/10 (23 June 2014)

This is one of those movies that forms a catalog out of the movies (and TV shows) that it's patched together from. First of all, Rod Serling wrote this premise out several times for The Twilight Zone, especially in the "Monsters Are Due On Main Street" episode of 1960. Peckinpah made Straw Dogs more than 40 years ago (!) *and* it was just remade in 2011. Haneke made Funny Games in '97 and then again in 2007 (not to mention his Time of the Wolf, released in-between). The Strangers in 2008 was *much* better than this film. And I guess a retreat to a panic room would've been too obvious a steal from Fincher's film...
Why does a hollow, worthless, by-the-book film like this exist, anyway? Because an "artist" has a burning need to shoot something, but no idea that isn't pre-digested and encased in his DVD collection? Don't bother with this junk--chances are you've seen it before.