"Because you were home" is not enough of a reason. The "strangers" were not strange they were just anonymous. The only impacting scene happens around 45 minutes in and it's a personal tragedy. An accident. It's far more horrific than anything that the "strangers" cause. Sure, there are some creepy moments. The stranger in the sack mask lurking in the background of a wide shot within the home is effective. But really, that's about it. It's pretty light on the gore. The ending is cruel and struck me as unmotivated and pointless. Teasing with "it will be easier next time" makes it even more frustrating. If you love or hate jump scares, there's really only one. You'll know it when you see it. And it's really dumb. I didn't like this much. Maybe I've see too many killers-with-masks movies.

Watched this after Stephen King recommended it in the 2010 forward to Danse Macabre. I thought it was pretty good. Very surprised at some of the comments here how much they hated it.

The film features two protagonists with whom you don't really empathize. Most of the plot is made up of the characters walking around the house and freaking out over nothing (fake jump scares with increased music volume). Nothing really interesting happens until the last 30 minutes.

Solid home-invasion movie. The antagonists are creepy, memorable and unrelenting. You have to suspend disbelief at a few moments, but otherwise it works pretty well. It's a slow burn though, so you have to be ready for that. It's the motivation of the characters though that's most effective. There's something unsettling about it all just being a random act of violence.

overall a decent horror for its time, though there are definitely more frightening entries into the home invasion genre. mostly worth it for liv tyler's performance, and the character mike's scene, the latter of which you know what's coming but the tension is top tier regardless.