Homing In
2018 · 7m
Directed by Parker Hill
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
A young mother finds a strange man in her home, in an unsettling seven-minute film that playfully skips between genres while building dread.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A home-invasion thriller that refuses to pick a lane—it's playing genre like a shell game, folding horror into something almost comedic before yanking the dread back, and that tonal whiplash is exactly the kind of thing that makes consensus critics uncomfortable and proves why they're wrong.
Hill demonstrates precise control over the grammar of suspense, situating the film within a lineage of psychological thrillers while the genre-skipping creates a formal instability that challenges rather than settles into comfortable tradition.
The brilliance lives in the decision to let the camera linger on mundane domestic space during the setup—that refusal to cut away builds a slow-burn unease that a bigger budget would've destroyed with faster editing and louder sound design.
Reviews
Parker Hill's Homing In is the unsettling tale of a young mother who finds a strange man in her home. With a Horror-esque set-up, Hill's inventive seven minute film playfully skips between genres, all the time keeping its audience hooked with a building intrigue, a sense of dread and an impressive production.