Home Sweet Home (2013)

Home Sweet Home (2013). 1h 20m | R

“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 u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film opens with the camera voyeuristically roaming through the McAndrew house . The occupants arenu0026#39;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 donu0026#39;t last twenty minutes so itu0026#39;s a chore watching twenty minutes of film where nothing happens and one wonders if the film is trying to kill itu0026#39;s audience through boredom . By the time the McAndrews do arrive home you might be beyond caring . Thatu0026#39;s if youu0026#39;re still conscious of course u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe next hour of the film revolves around Sara McAndrew trying to escape the clutches of the masked intruder and being a horror film weu0026#39;re getting anything in the way of character motive or character development , weu0026#39;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 doesnu0026#39;t really have the legs to carry it that far and would have worked much better as a 15 minute short”