The Owners: Trespassers will be bloodily prosecuted
Film review: Efficient adaptation of Belgian comic begins as home invasion thriller and ends in Old Dark House territory
Film Title: The Owners
Genre: Horror
The young hoodlums at the centre of this satisfying shocker lose any sympathy we may have allowed when they elect to torture, of all treasures, Sylvester McCoy and Rita Tushingham. They may as well have threatened to eviscerate Paddington and Bagpuss.
Mind you, from early on we get a sense that Dr and Mrs Huggins may not be quite so harmless as they seem.
The picture begins with perky Mary (Maisie Williams) – who may or may not end up as the “final girl” – reluctantly assisting three male friends in robbing the elderly couple’s rural pile. Terry (Andrew Ellis), whose mum works for the Hugginses, has heard there is a stack of money on the property but, after a rigorous search, they are flummoxed by a safe in the basement. The gang decides to wait for the, ahem, o