When she investigates, she sees Dollface already in the house, who kills her offscreen and then lies down in bed next to the woman's sleeping husband. Dollface wakes a sleeping female occupant by knocking at the front door. Ten years after the events of the first film, in a secluded trailer park in Kalida, Ohio the three masked strangers - Dollface, Pin-Up Girl, and the Man in the Mask - arrive in a truck at night to a couple's trailer. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with some considering it to be more entertaining than its predecessor and appreciated its satire of horror films, while others noted it as inferior to the original and called it clichéd. The Strangers: Prey at Night was released in the United States on March 9, 2018, and in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2018, grossing $32.1 million worldwide on a budget of $5 million. After a troubled development period, filming to the sequel began on May 30, 2017. Directors Laurent Briet and Marcel Langenegger were considered to direct, but landed eventually to Roberts. It was originally slated to enter principal photography in 2009, during which time it was tentatively titled The Strangers: Part II. The plot follows a family vacationing to a secluded mobile home park, where they are attacked by three masked strangers.ĭevelopment of the film began in August 2008, when Rogue Pictures had confirmed that a sequel was in the works, with Bertino co-writing the screenplay with Ketai. The film stars Bailee Madison, Lewis Pullman, Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, and Damian Maffei. It is the sequel to The Strangers (2008) and the second installment of The Strangers film series. It's all just crushingly dull.The Strangers: Prey at Night is a 2018 slasher film directed by Johannes Roberts and written by Bryan Bertino and Ben Ketai. They're also able, supernaturally, to be anywhere, at any time, and to know where their victims are at all times. The killers, on the other hand, are inhumanly imperturbable, with nary a drop of adrenaline affecting their actions. And they're always poking around where they shouldn't be, facing the wrong direction, or running from danger in plain sight. Unbelievably, all four of them leave their trailer without taking their phones. The characters aren't very smart, and their dialogue never really rings true. It has predictable jump scares and clichés like the lone, creaking swing on the swing set. He even includes a De Palma-like split-screen shot.īut the movie disintegrates quickly from there. Director Johannes Roberts ( The Other Side of the Door, 47 Meters Down), starts things off promisingly, with a 1980s-style title card and a creepy, 1980s-style synthesizer score, as well as some ironically chosen '80s pop songs. Thus, the sequel, The Strangers: Prey at Night, which is completely unnecessary other than as an investment. The original The Strangers (2008) wasn't good (or well-received by either critics or viewers), but it still made lots of money. This 10-years-later sequel to one of the staples of the home-invasion horror subgenre is aggravatingly typical, with baffling lapses in logic, dumb characters, and annoying, all-powerful killers. So overall I enjoyed the movie, and one I would recommend to slasher lovers. And the killers being somewhat invulnerable add to that feature of the slasher flicks as well. I also liked their take on sticking to the cliche slasher horroe genre by having characters that follow where the noise is coming from, or doing stupid things. I felt this movie was enjoyable and ironically intense when you hear songs like, “total eclipse of the heart” playing in the background as the killers are about to make their move. Slasher flicks were a big thing in the 80s and I felt with the addition of 80s music to the movie, prey at night was trying to pay homage to the 80s horror genre. I don’t know why common sense is hating on the movie for being an aggravating movie.sure the characters aren’t the brightest, and sure the killers come out of nowhere in multiple scenes, but isn’t that the typical slasher flicks for you? If you aren’t into the cliche that is slasher flicks, then yes you may hate this movie, but the first kind of horror movies I watched were slasher flicks slasher classics like Halloween, Friday the 13th, Child’s Play, And Nightmare on Elm Street.
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