Advantages: Scary, with suspense a plenty! Disadvantages: Somewhat disappointing ending, could have been better!
The Strangers is a movie by debut director Bryan Bertino, and has been released this year. Starring Liv Tyler (Armageddon, The Lord of the Rings) and Scott Speedman (Underworld, XXX), the movie is a violent thriller, which is supposedly inspired by true events, and has a UK 15 certificate rating.
A couple, Kirsten McKay (Liv Tyler) and James Hoyt (Scott Speedman), return from a wedding reception to the secluded Hoyt's family home, both upset from an arguement that had occured earlier that night. As the couple sit down to discuss the row, they are both startled to hear a knock on the front door, in the early hours of the morning. As they open the door, a strange woman stands in the doorway, asking for a person, whom the couple have never heard of. They explain that the person doesn't live there, and the woman wanders off into ...
danmclovin 03.09.2008
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Advantages: Good performances from the children Disadvantages: A slow Story
The stranger is an average thriller with a few good scares but mainly a slow story. The story is simple but nothing really happens. A woman loses her daughter and starts to withdraw with flashbacks of her childhood and strange memories. There is no particular highlight of the film as it seems to drag on a bit and when you get to the end where it all makes sense, it's not really that spectacular. However, it does hold your attention throughout, with a good script that is well acted out. Though not a horror, there are one or two bits that build up suspense to the level of horror, but only one of these bits seems to work particularly well. When i bought it, it sounded more of a horror film so i was a bit surprised when i watched it. It has some bits that are drama mixed in with slight thriller and so it may be more enjoyable to someone ...
Advantages: Good sequence of events, suspense horror, a worthy watch, a good ending Disadvantages: took a while to get going, the acting could have been better, not a lot of killing
Bryan Bertino's debut feature The Strangers is an effectively grim, exceedingly well-made horror thriller. Wringing atmospheric tension out of the familiar set-up of a besieged young couple, the movie mixes pulse-pounding scenes of explicit menace with stalking scenarios more rooted in sustained dread
The Strangers unfolds over a period of several hours, almost exclusively at night. After leaving a friend's wedding reception, Kristen McKay (Tyler) and James Hoyt (Scott Speedman) head to a relatively secluded country home that once belonged to James' parents, for their own supposed night of celebration. Not long after their arrival, however, they're visited by a woman creepily asking if 'Tamara' is there. After politely responding in the negative, James and Kristen are later attacked by a trio of mysterious, masked strangers - two ...
jmarlene 31.08.2009
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