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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "home invasion" (26)

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The Tramp

Charles Chaplin (director/lead/writer)
Harry Ensign (cinematographer)
Edna Purviance (lead)
Essanay (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Apr 1915
Minutes: 27

Seemingly endless loop of the same type of slapstick that was done with much more enthusiasm in Chaplin's earlier Keystone reels with Mabel Normand.

Featured elements:

: alienation; antihero; bookends; comedy; fighting; heroic defender; home invasion; pathos; slapstick; tramp; treachery

He Did and He Didn't

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (director/lead)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Al St. John (lead)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jan 1916
Minutes: 15

Something completely different for Roscoe and Mabel - though Al St. John maintains his normal swinging-from-the-chandeliers persona.

Featured elements:

: abuse; chase; comedy; falsely accused; home invasion; infidelity; servitude; slapstick; swindling

The End of the World (Verdens Undergan)

August Blom (director)
Louis Larsen (cinematographer)
Otto Rung (writer)
Ebba Thomsen (lead)
Olaf Fønss (lead)
Johanne Fritz-Petersen (lead)
Nordisk (production)

Language: Silent, Danish and English titles, released in Apr 1916
Minutes: 77

Denmark punked out of The Great War, and so missed out on the Great Debut of two of modern technology's Great Weapons of Mass Death and Misery from the air: bombing of cities, and clouds of poison gas. Sniffing out the profit potential from Denmark's movie fans who'd pay to get a taste of that action in their own hoods (safely), Nordisk's exploitation film division went into overdrive and came up with a winner and released it on April Fool's Day. Grounded in an engaging story of class and family struggle with a healthy dose of hiss-worthy villainy, executed with strong performances (aided by authenticity of masses of nonprofessionals), and crowned with credible special effects and stunning cinematography revealed in this excellent restoration, this deserves greater recognition.

Featured elements:

: action; animal act; breaking class; business; corruption; crime; dance; death scene; family; fighting; flashback; forsaken; gold digger; home invasion; infidelity; manipulator; melodrama; newsroom; patriarchy; prison; religion; revenge; romance; sci-fi; servitude; shipwreck; state of emergency; suspense; swindling; treachery; uprising; wage slavery

Blind Justice

Benjamin Christensen (director/lead/writer)
Johan Ankerstjerne (cinematographer)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Sep 1916
Minutes: 100

Intertitle: "...A new clue...those words had an ominous sound to Mr. Wilken". Then, about 15 seconds later, the next intertitle: "...A new clue...those words seem to burn". And it painfully drags on like this, every scene taking twice the time needed (when half the scenes were not needed at all) in this 100-minute remake of the 6-minute "Physician Of The Castle" (1908), that simply adds 94 minutes of bloated backstory.

Featured elements:

: alienation; antihero; crime; death scene; distress call; ex-con; falsely accused; family; flashback; home invasion; invasion-call-rescue; melodrama; psycho; rescue; revenge; treachery

The Spiders (Serial)

Fritz Lang (director/writer)
Karl Freund (cinematographer)
Carl de Vogt (lead)
Georg John (lead)
Lil Dagover (lead)
Ressel Orla (lead)
Erich Pommer (producer)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Oct 1919

While in hot pursuit of conspicuous leisure, a delusional elite spots a bottle trashed in the sea. For no apparent reason, he takes it home and struggles to get to the urgent message he has convinced himself is inside (not wanting to simply break the valuable trashy bottle). He claims the bottle contained an urgent message (although its pedantry seems quite incongruent with the circumstances under which it was purportedly written). The message tells of “unbelievable treasures” and a gold mine “which appears to be inexhaustible” (claims that modern viewers will be familiar with from their encounters with the bottle's cyber-twin: scam spam). When he spins this tale to his fellow elites at Club Inbreeders, it gets picked up by an agent of a diabolical gullible mastermind, and leads to an intensely silly spectacle of competing blundering murderous international thieves - with one posing as White Savior - that modern viewers will be familiar with from their encounters with its political-twin: the new “Cold War”.