“Well they want something. People don’t just stand out there, staring at us like that. They want something.”
– James Hoyt
SYNOPSIS: A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants. – via IMDB
After always hearing how good a horror The Strangers is, I decided to finally give it a shot with my husband. While he hated it to the core, I can’t say that I liked it an awful lot more. Where do I even begin?
I know! The logic of the characters! These two are just hands down the stupidest two I have seen together in a horror in a really long time. For one, he returns and finds her hysterical and he’s like “it’s nothing”. Then he’s all macho and leaves her alone and realises there are a bunch of crazy people out there stalking, and he’s just like “oh whatever”. Together these two progress to make some of the most idiotic decisions I have seen in horror/thriller in a while, and let’s face it, this is not really a genre of smart moves.
The two characters we are following are also not really nice people, so you aren’t really invested in their survival, either. The movie starts with promise, it really did, but it went downhill so fast my head is still spinning if I think about it. You just say The Strangers around my husband now and he will start a bitchfest about this movie.
The Strangers is overly vague, which would have been fine, had it just been a better watch. With better writing, the potential would not have been lost, and there was quite a bit. A nonsensical home invasion, masks, psychologically torturing people, initially a great atmosphere, the whole lot. But instead it is bogged down by flawed logic, unlikable characters, a score I didn’t like (too loud for action/music ,speech nonexistent), faulty pacing, therefore letting itself down before it even got started. The tension that was built in the beginning, the scares it put forth, dwindle in the face of the infuriating decisions made by the characters. Overall, it is nothing but a bland and frustrating experience.
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All I have to say..thank you! Finally one person who thinks this movie isn’t great! Haha! I felt exactly the same way about it. I constantly can’t believe that I actually dished out money for this stupid movie to see it in theatres when it first released.
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Ha! In agreement! Oh shame, that’s a total waste of money 😦 This really was so silly, and not in the good kind of way.
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Dearest JB,
I thought this was all right but the whole ‘because we can’ thing really pissed me off. Does this come with a review of the sequel?
Love,
ISC
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Sweet Chop,
Ugh, so stupid. It has been hesitant to watch the sequel. I probably should. Maybe there’s an accompanying review next week 🤔
Love,
JJB
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Hesitant JJB,
I loved the sequel!
Love,
The Chop
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Kindest Chop,
That makes me feel a little better about catching it sometime. Maybe after my book… 🤔
Love,
IJB
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That title alone is enough to annoy me. It is so vague, just like you said. (Although I think you were referring to the general action and ideas going on in the movie more so than the title, but the title isn’t very good in my mind. Its so generic.) Sorry for your loss (of brain cells).
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🤣 Thanks so much Tom. Yeah, it just… sucked. The title is generic but makes sense once you’ve watched this heap of junk, but gah. Not worth it.
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