I See You (2019)

A revelation halfway through, one that cleverly had me reevaluating what sort of movie I thought I was watching, introduced me to a horror concept I probably would have been better off not knowing about - I will never listen to the creaks and groans of my home in the same way again - but once the movie aboutfaces after this surprise, it loses some credibility as the plot starts relying on an outrageous and exhausting confluence of events at the family home of Helen Hunt's Jackie Harper (although admittedly these events are all neatly tied up in the end).

★★★☆☆

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The Strangers (2008)

The tormentors of a couple staying in a remote summer house wear odd masks and have a seemingly supernatural ability to come and go, appear and disappear, in this horror exercise with zero plot, prefaced by an odd Law and Order-style voiceover suggesting, weirdly and not very convincingly, that it is based on a true story when in fact it is just a American teen horror ripoff of Funny Games.

★★☆☆☆

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