A pair of home invaders consider their potential character choices just prior to their planned invasion.
A film like ‘Invaders’ is all about the setting, avoiding the full story, the film is driven by an unready situation instead. Planted directly at the doorstep of a home invasion heist, the plot ascends to the thieves’ consider their potential character choices just prior to their planned invasion. Then a couple of bloody stuff just happens.
Ever since being introduced to stuff like The Wicker Man or Alice Sweet Alice (and more recently The Strangers and You’re Next, etc.), I would always seem to get hung up when threatening antagonists show up wearing creepy/elaborate masks without any back story at all. We never actually get to see the awkward decision making process that must have gone into these mask selections. That could just never be a cool conversation and would inherently strip these characters of the sort of ominous mystique they’re attempting to achieve from frame-one. So, that’s what I wanted to do. Once you start from that perspective, there’s just no way you can take them seriously in a grueling home invasion-type scenario.
Despite the obvious attention grabbing bloodshed, the film really pulled through in its details. Looking back, all the little choices made a significant importance to the short storyline, like the choice of vehicle, mask selections and even the type of knife they used said a lot about the invaders themselves.
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