A Review of the Strangers

Well now that I have finally seen the much talked about Strangers, let's have a one way chat about it, shall we?

The Strangers takes place in a present day in a unmodern farmhouse off in the middle of the woods, miles from civilization. A little cliche maybe, but I gave it a chance. This movie is a pop-up movie, not a gore film. If you are watching this movie to see a bunch of people get chopped up, your gore loving heart will not be fulfilled.

There were some problematic scenes I had with this movie. Just some questions that were left unanswered. Some situations that I do not see how it happened. I do not want to give away any of the movie but there were some scenes where I do not see how the bad people get inside to outside unless they were jumping through walls.

In the befogging of the movie some creepy chick knocks on the door in the wee morning hours and mumbles some chicks name and disappears. I really do not recall why she mentioned that name. Did I miss something? I don't think I did but...maybe.

Okay. I really had a problem with the ending. I think that is very fair to say. I know they are going with a Halloween style ending--the classic everyone dies and the bad guys still are at-large. But after all the chasing, why just stab them under the non-scary morning sun. This needed to be ten times more dramatic.

Also this film like many other horror films claims to be 'inspired by a true story'. The film was inspired by an event from director Bryan Bertino's childhood: a stranger came to his home asking for someone who was not there, and Bertino later found out that empty homes in the neighborhood had been broken into that night. Bryan Bertino, also mentions that this movie is based on the keddie cabin murders that happen April 11th, 1981 in which three people were killed and another little girl was kidnapped. Hmm...whatever.

So all this trash against this movie. But what do I overall think about this movie. B+. I will give it a high B. I like the new scary people. It could start a new style of monster. (ie Jason, Myers, Leatherface, etc) The mask are pretty freaky. I also like the suspense of this movie. Most of the movie you are on edge. I really liked the movie till the semi-dissapointing end. I AM glad that I have seen this movie and would recommend it to others. However, this will not be remembered as a instant-classic in horror.

That's my bored breakdown of The Strangers. If you have not seen it yet, see it. A great date movie. Pop-ups lead to instant reaching for someone near for protection. No pun intended.