The Owners is a fun film of home invasion gone wrong with a touch of love that makes for a strange, almost romantic, bloody thriller. Where to begin with this one. What is interesting is that there are no good guys in this film. As the story progresses you find out more about all the characters and that is really what makes it interesting. It also leads to why I say it’s a strange romantic view for the weird at heart.
The story starts off with Gaz (Jake Curran), Nathan (Ian Kenny), and Terry (Andrew Ellis), sitting in a car watching the Huggins estate, waiting for the Huggins family to leave so they can break in and rob the place. Terry’s mother (Stacha Hicks) has supposedly told him that the Huggins have money in the house. As they wait, Mary (Maisie Williams) shows up because she needs the car to go to work. After some time arguing, they see Mr. Huggins (Sylvester McCoy) and Mrs. Huggins (Rita Tushingham) leave the house. That’s when the invasion begins as they break in and talk Mary into joining. As they can’t find anything they decide to wait on the Huggins to return and force them to open a safe that was found in the house. What you learn is that Gaz is a complete psychopath with no respect for anyone and tries to force the others into performing almost torture on the Huggins. There really is no saving qualities for the burglars as you grow to dislike and even hate some of them as individuals.
One thing leads to another and you find that the Huggins are former doctor and nurse combo. They decide that they will “help” Mary’s boyfriend who got stabbed in a struggle with Gaz. Something seems off about the couple though. Even as they try to help you feel as though there is something sinister about the old married couple. This leads to where I said the movie takes on an almost strangely weird romantic tone as Mr. Huggins explains that his wife worked with him as his nurse and they had a kid. Mrs. Huggins turns out to be going through dementia and her loving husband wants nothing more than to take care of her and keep her happy.
Overall the movie starts and is quite deceptive in that you hate who you believe the main characters are and end up rooting for the “bad guys.”It’s a weird and oddly romantic flick for the oddballs at heart. I would highly recommend this movie as a date night viewing for fans of blood and weirdness. Once things start coming together with the story it is a little bit of a predictable ending. However it doesn’t take away from the overall feeling and mood of everything going on. All in all it’s a fun film and interesting take on the home invasion category with a love story attached that takes absolutely nothing away from the events that transpire.
RORSCHACH RATING
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Victims and Villains is written Josh "Captain Nostalgia" Burkey (and produced by), Caless Davis, Dan Rockwood, & Brandon Miller. Music by Mallory Johnson and others. This review was edited by Cam Smith.
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