Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles shaped the genre, using shadows, smoke, and sharp dialogue to show us ...

These events originally appeared in the 1955 film noir The Desperate Hours starring Humphrey Bogart. The stories are near-identical, qualifying both productions as essential home invasion movies.

Then who knocks on my door? The usual suspects are midday movie critiques. They're here to take us down a dark alley to explore film noir. So who are these unsavory characters? My one is KPBS ...