“Masquerade” is a truly bland horror/thriller flick. We seem to have had a ton of home invasion films in recent years such as “The Purge”, “The Strangers”, “Hush” and “Knock Knock” so “Masquerade” hardly feels unique. The only marginally positive thing about this whole film is that the twist is mildly creative. Maybe if the rest of the film were not so terrible, I might have appreciated it more.

In “Masquerade”, Casey (Alyvia Alyn Lind “Blended”, “Overboard”) is a young girl that desperately tries to survive when aggressive robbers break into her family’s home and attempt to steal some priceless artwork. What was meant to be a simple job soon spirals out of control with violent and potentially lethal consequences at every turn.

Alyvia Alyn Lind does an okay job but she’s got an appalling script to work with. The robbers wear what looks like fencing masks. We get endless shots that linger on the hammers that they carry. The costumes are just so unremarkable and lazy. Just imagine how much less of an impact Michael Myers or Ghostface would have made if they were merely wearing a fencing mask. We also have Bella Thorne (“The Babysitter”, “Boo! A Madea Halloween”) but her exact role does not become entirely clear until the end of the picture.

“Masquerade” is an awful film that even starts poorly. After mere minutes, you realise that there is little hope for this to be an entertaining film. I’m tired of the home invasion films. If you’re going to do them then you need to be more creative and do something like “Better Watch Out”. This film is also really visually dark and difficult to see so it’s a miserable picture to look at. As you can tell, I didn’t remotely enjoy “Masquerade” and if you value your time, you’ll most likely want to skip this.