The Strangers

My second favorite home invasion movie after Home Alone.

I think the Letterboxd community is underrating The Strangers, or maybe the simple home invasion has lost its effectiveness in the era of Ring Doorbells and smartphones and Uber. This is one of the scariest movies I've seen in terms of likelihood of it happening to me, especially because I was living in West Virginia when it came out, which is already a little scary. It puts you in the position to think about what you would do if you were randomly chosen, and it has a few really effective jump scares.