Summer Stranger Danger @lenalwilson @nytimes

Lena Wilson examines home invasion movies in I Know Where You Lived Last Summer in this article for The New York Times. She says in part,

The writer-director Jordan Peele’s latest nightmare is part of a long line of home-invasion movies like “The Last House on the Left” and “Straw Dogs” that tap into the fear that home may be where the danger is. When blood spills in a vacation house, however, that dread takes on an extra layer of meaning: Wealth becomes a signifier, leaving the haves vulnerable to opportunistic have-nots. If you are rich enough to use “summer” as a verb, someone will try to murder you.