Remy – Kidnapped
Kidnapped might just be the best home invasion movie outside of Funny Games. Really. I know some people walk away from it fucked up, but that’s not a bad thing when it comes to horror. In that sense, it very much belongs in the same breath as Funny Games.
Kidnapped is a movie about a home invasion gone wrong (as if any can go right) – a movie about a hopeless situation that just seems to be getting more and more hopeless by the second.
I will warn you right now, Kidnapped is NOT for the faint of heart. It has some truly upsetting moments, and mainly got panned by critics for the joy it seemed to derive from its own sheer cruelty and brutality. What needs to be understood for this film to work though is that this is HOW home invasions go down. Rarely do home invasions EVER end on a happy note. When you hear about them in the news, you hear about them because the family ends up getting killed – I think that is the scariest idea of a home invasion. You actually have very little chance of getting out alive (or sane).
There are some rumors that the film is based on a true story, and the saddest part is, I am almost positive I am familiar with the case it was based on, which ended up getting its own documentary that I will talk to you about at a later date.
Anyway, watch Kidnapped – if for no other reason than to use it as a blueprint for everything NOT to do if this ever happens to you.
