Pin-Up Girl (Laura Margolis), Man in the Mask (Kip Weeks), and Dollface (Gemma Ward) standing in a living room looking at Kristen (Liv Tyler) and James (Scott Speedman) who are tied to chairs in The Strangers.
The Big Picture There are several horror movies that claim that they are “based on a true story.”The Conjuring, The Amityville Horror, Fire in the Sky, — the list only goes on from there. Bryan Bertino’s The Strangers is one of those movies, even though Bertino was merely inspired by the Manson family murders and a string of break-ins that occurred in his neighborhood during his youth.
“On the night of February 11, 2005, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt left a friend’s wedding reception and returned to the Hoyt family’s summer home. The brutal events that took place there are still not entirely known.” ‘The Strangers’ Is Uncomfortably Tense James, being the great boyfriend and potential husband that he clearly thinks he is, decides to head out to the store to get Kristen her cigarettes, leaving her alone. The mystery woman returns to the door to harass her, while a tall masked man has already silently made his way into the house, creepily standing right behind Kristen.
‘The Strangers’ Still Falls Victim To Certain Horror Tropes Close The Strangers does so many things right in terms of building anticipation and fear in its audience. However, there are still certain elements throughout that will occasionally take you out of the movie. The dialogue between Kristen and James is incredibly corny, and neither of them seems all that multi-dimensional.
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