Lady in a Cage begins on a hot summer day at the start of a holiday weekend. Watch Paramount’s very cool trailer for Lady in a Cage, which begins with a warning! Hilyard, the eponymous “lady in a cage,” and one of the invaders of her home, Randall Simpson O’Connell, is played by a young James Caan in his first substantial role in a feature film. Aside from its unremitting bleakness, the film is also notable for its stars: Olivia de Havilland plays Mrs. Luther Davis wrote the original screenplay for Lady in a Cage, and the film was directed by Walter Grauman. Indeed, these films seem at times explicitly to reference the earlier film.
It anticipates some of the more nihilistic horror films of later decades-notably Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left (1972), Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (19), and Bryan Bertino’s The Strangers. I was, to put it bluntly, shocked that a film this dark was made in the early 1960s. The following list offers underrated examples - from forgotten classics to modern pulse-pounders - that remind us why we should lock our doors.Lady in a Cage (1964) is a deeply disturbing film. There are examples of home invasions on film dating back to the days of silent cinema, and the idea of criminals or other assailants threatening us in our own homes has continued to resonate into the present day. While home invasion has been a popular motif in horror films of the 21st century, finding expression in such mainstays of the form as the aforementioned The Strangers or 2007's Funny Games - itself a remake of the 1997 Austrian film of the same name - the home invasion subgenre has been with us for as long as movies have been made. When someone forces their way in, they're not just holding us hostage - they are violating us in a very real, intimate, and personal way, just by being there. Our homes are where we're supposed to be safe. It's the chilling motive given behind the actions of the eponymous home invaders in The Strangers, and it showcases what makes the home invasion subgenre such an effectively unsettling one.
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