To the end of the 2000s, horror had once again started to shift.

The era of grizzly grimy torture porn movies was beginning to fade, and after the success

of paranormal activity, the more stripped-back PG-13 ghost-trained style horror movies

were starting to become popular again.

However, that wasn't to say that there weren't still a few outliers, some movies that felt

like a last hurrah for that new metal era of horror.

In 2009, source sequel writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunston made a horror film called

The Collector, about a deranged masked killer invading a family's home to murder them all

with violent, bloodthirsty traps.

The film was described by critics at the time as an ultra-violent mash-up of Home Alone

and Saw.

A few years later, in 2016, Fede Alvarez followed up his blood-drenched evil-dead reboot

with a home-invasion film called Don't Breathe.

Don't Breathe had plenty of that pared-down, hot-stopping tension that would come to

expect from horror of the 2010s, but it was mixed with a kind of grizzly OTT abduction

and torture horror, which felt like a throwback to the heyday of the nihilistic 2000s.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of Home Invasion, and we discuss 2009's The

Collector and 2016's Don't Breathe.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror.

My name is Mike Munster, and as ever, I am your host.

In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre

one sub-jummer at a time.

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