RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
cyberman-38605 Why all the bad reviews? Did I watch a totally different movie from everyone else because I thought this was a solid home invasion thriller. The pacing was great and the movie kept me at the edge of my seat throughout. The opening 10-15 minutes are slow but I feel like it overall added to the movie. I went into this film expecting a solid home invasion thriller and that's exactly what I got. 8/10
adonis98-743-186503 A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants. The Strangers is a film that despite it's flaws it's still an intense horror flick with some good perfomances from Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman but also some intense scenes like the one where Liv's character is drinking water and the killer is behind her creeping but there's also some over the top jump scares like the one in the end and it needed a bit more tension at times but i ired what the director wanted to do and the actors did a great job and overall it was an enjoyable thriller. (7.5/10)
thesar-2 Get ready for a cartoon couple that makes so many, MANY mistakes, The Triple Title Threat probably didn't have to do anything but wait around until their prey accidentally killed themselves.Maybe this is where Tucker & Dale got their ideas.So, you're being stalked in your place, smart enough to arm yourself with a knife, but dumb enough to cut yourself in the process of running into a room and while trying to fit under the bed for safety, you find you're too big, and then spend a minute fumbling around with a lamp to turn it off, thinking somehow that might give away your location to the killer right outside the bedroom and YOU FORGET TO SHUT THE BEDROOM DOOR? I don't even care if it doesn't have a lock on it. THAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST INSTINCT.I'm totally getting ahead of myself and back to my original point: If you enjoy watching people make such blatant and moronic decisions, this is the home invasion thriller for you.The movie is literally a 15-minute suspense YouTube Purge Prequel bloated more than five times its welcome. A sad couple gets terrorized by three masked nobodies. Annnnd, that's the entire synopsis. I seeing this only one other time when it first came out ten years ago. As much as I heard good things, as much as this is my type of horror and as much as I wanted to like it, I hated it. I recall giving it 1½ stars out of five. With the inevitable sequel finally coming out a decade later, and premiering this weekend, I felt I might be wrong in my first impression. Well, yeah, I was wrong. Just now, not back then.Oh, and "inspired by true events?" Seriously? So Jaws was as well since sharks have occasionally snacked on humans? I should write my own screenplay "inspired by true events" and when pressed, I would argue there were people in my fictional town and many places have actual towns with people living in them.And don't get me started on the too-young-to-be-Mormon-bicyclists, yet still creepy Christian boys' reaction to the carnage in both the beginning and end. Aside from the 999th predictable jump scare (oh, movie, you were so close to an even thousand - if only you were a normal movie's length,) the boys' "I've read about worse in the Bible" unemotional blank stares to a gruesome bloodbath makes for some incredible unintentional laughter. It was just so hard trying to sympathize with such idiots. Um, the couple, not the boys. They were probably rejects from A.I.'s robot kid factory. Never once did I root for them. I just wanted the Strangers to literally sit down on the couch for the majority of the film while our "heroes/victims" did everything in their power to reverse living. Now, THAT, would've been a more interesting film.***Final thoughts: So, I brought this movie up to a coworker/fellow horror fan at work today and she said she didn't like these types of movie because they could really happen. Further, she explained she liked ghost stories more. I told her that's exactly why I love these; since they could happen, that's what scares me. Ghosts don't exist, so the movies about them never frighten me. She went on to say she also doesn't believe in ghosts, so those movies that couldn't happen scare her more.Funny. I doubt I've ever met my match...at the complete end of the spectrum.
