![]() ![]() The killers have no motive-and, as it turns out, neither does the movie. The trio of masked youths who beset them are menacing-though it's the masks doing most of the work-and director Johannes Roberts ( 47 Meters Down) gets the jump on us a few times. Our victims this time are a family of four-Mom (Christina Hendricks), Dad (Martin Henderson), high school senior Luke (Lewis Pullman) and troubled junior Kinsey (Bailee Madison)-headed for Kinsey's new boarding school but stopping for the night at Uncle Marv's lakeside trailer park, which is abandoned (it's the off-season) and a little foggy (i.e., a murder factory). Less surprising is this randomly-titled follow-up which features a new director, writer and cast, and is a step down in quality, though not without its slasher-y pleasures. ![]() Whatever the case, 2008’s The Strangers was one of the better (and more profitable) ones, so it’s surprising that it took a decade to conjure a sequel. It's all just crushingly dull.The home invasion thriller, once a sparsely populated sub-genre, has proliferated in the 21st century, perhaps reflecting our growing fear that there’s no place the evils of the world can’t reach us. They're also able, supernaturally, to be anywhere, at any time, and to know where their victims are at all times. A family’s road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. ![]() 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. The Strangers: Prey at Night Cast & Crew Martin Henderson in The Strangers: Prey at Night, Martin Henderson Bailee Madison in The Strangers: Prey at Night. 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. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the family’s every limit as they struggle to. Thus, the sequel, The Strangers: Prey at Night, which is completely unnecessary other than as an investment. A familys road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. The original The Strangers (2008) wasn't good (or well-received by either critics or viewers), but it still made lots of money. a 70s horror homage with actual character, tension and great direction, a staggeringly profound and layered slasher, violence is meant to be feared and hated and even the moments of revenge ache with furious trauma and anguish. Johannes Roberts (whose shark diving thriller 47 Meters Down was a smash hit) directs this horror film featuring Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Martin. 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.
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