The Strangers Movie
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Storyline
TAGLINES
Lock the door. Pretend you're safe.
We tell ourselves there's nothing to fear - but sometimes, we're wrong.
What are you afraid of?
Because you were home.
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.
| Alex Fisher | Mormon Boy #1 |
| Peter Clayton-Luce | Mormon Boy #2 |
| Scott Speedman | James Hoyt |
| Liv Tyler | Kristen McKay |
| Gemma Ward | Dollface |
| Kip Weeks | Man in the Mask |
| Laura Margolis | Pin-Up Girl |
| Glenn Howerton | Mike |
| Bryan Bertino |
6.10 out of 10 (25484 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Nihilism A la Carte
posted on 26 Aug 2009I seem to be approaching nihilist films on a streak, viewing "The Virgin Spring" recently. The Strangers has a lot of that "philosophy" crammed in. I read comments claiming the film doesn't connect us to the characters, and is crammed of every cliché to be. Oh the irony. When we see horror films, being attached to characters is a repeated figure, a screenwriter's must. Bertino does good in creating the night horror without any development, no overbearing crudeness, playing suspense and psychological terror like piano keys.This is the approach: the strangers attack because their victims "are at home", and they do not respond to pleas, long reasonings or emotions. It's nihilism pure: they kill because they find control and domination powerful, and they don't care about consequences, moral or of any other kind.In that optic, "The Strangers" is truly scary. We are not dealing with supernatural beings, but human beings, who chose the path of downright evil and can't be convinced of not doing it. People like that may be lurking out there, and that scares most of us viewers.
Adding To A Disturbing New Genre
posted on 24 Aug 2009I was watching the extras portion of this DVD for only one reason: I desperately desired an explanation for the reasons behind the making of this film. After all, when I've just been bludgeoned with ninety minutes of unmotivated, gratuitous violence, all without justification, I feel I am owed that explanation. I was expecting to be disappointed when suddenly, during the last minute, the director finally revealed his motivations. It seems his goal was to put the viewer right there with the victims. "If the audience feels like they were there, then I'll be happy." I see. So then... trying to impart to the viewer a sense of what it feels like to be terrorized and brutally murdered is his lofty goal? What kind of sick mind constructs a film based upon such reasonings? After methodically terrorizing the couple all night and into morning, the film ends with the trio observing the tied-up couple tearfully exchanging their vows of love for each other, only to then take turns repeatedly plunging a kitchen knife into them, watching each other die. Bryan Bertino, the films director should be banished from the industry. There is nothing either entertaining or redeeming about this trash called "The Strangers." Moreover, this film represents the disturbing growth in the popularity of such mindless, gratuitous violence for the sake of violence. Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman should be absolutely ashamed for signing on to participate in this tripe. The first thing they each need to do is fire their agents and immediately post an apology to the movie-going public in Variety and THW. Are your respective careers in such despair as to need a film like this? And shame on Universal Pictures for putting their brand on this garbage. I can see that there are no longer any lines whatsoever that a studio will not cross in order to line their pockets. My God, how far this industry has fallen...
Predictable, Pedestrian, and Passe
posted on 24 Aug 2009Don't be confused by all the glowing reviews about this film. I was, and then ended up wasting an afternoon watching every predictable sequence ever imagined in this so-called horror classic.As mentioned in an earlier review if you imagine every ridiculous thing a frightened couple would not do under any circumstances you have the outline of this film.Ordinarily I put some thought and care into these reviews but this stinker really isn't worth the time. Blair Witch 2, hardly a masterpiece in the genre, is a piece de resistance by comparison.The acting is acceptable enough but the screenwriter needs to get a job doing something other than dreaming up utterly absurd scenes that will excite only the most unsophisticated viewer.
Neither realistic or entertaining as a whole.
posted on 24 Aug 2009I like titles with a good premise, and I mean even the bare movie poster for this one delivered a really neat one. But I was pretty disappointed when the credits rolled by.Besides a promising premise it had some scary moments and good actors, so what went wrong really? Story-wise this was nothing special and at times very predictable as well as cliché. The ending felt like it's been designed as to give credibility to the false "based on real events" bull crap, and gave me a familiar bitter after-taste that's very reminiscent of the piece of trash Funny Games.I was utterly annoyed by the fact that everyone in the strangers gang could move like ghosts wherever they wanted in the actual house without alerting anyone(even walking behind a guy with him oblivious of the presence despite it being an old damn house!), and act in unison without seemingly any form of interaction in between each other.Not especially recommended overall, this brings nothing new to the table, except the premise of 3 masked strangers stalking your house, of which I believe a much better movie can be produced.
Skip it!
posted on 22 Aug 2009I will warn you that this could considered to be a spoiler, but you don't have to worry about this film being spoiled. There is no plot! The whole movie consists of pointless and really badly acted scenes of by Liv Tyler. There is a goofy guy with a potato sack over his head walking around behind her, conveniently out of view when she turns around. He's accompanied by two young girls; one who talks like she's got an IQ of 60 and the other one who didn't get paid for any lines. I won't tell the ending, but I think you can gather from the cover that it did not end with them sitting around the fireplace singing Christmas Carols. A really dumb, predictable movie. I only wish I could get those 98 minutes back.
Alas , again a good movie getting bad reviews!!!
posted on 22 Aug 2009Hi, I just finished watching this movie and had to put down my comment having had checked the last one saying in not so poetic terms that it is utter garbage.This is a solid thriller but then again you have to have a sense of what a THRILLER is.If its only blood and gore then all i can say is that this is not for you people but for those who like it in style here is something refreshing.The movie has a slow pace but that builds up the tension.Yes it has its cliché moments but thats better than a cliché movie Or it might be that everyone has become so accustomed to guns blazing and heads rolling off that they can't enjoy the subtle sensation of fear creeping up on you.Yes everyone can say that the acting could have been better,the lighting wasn't good enough etc etc ,but how long has it been since a good thriller came along? Come on guys at least give it a thumbs up for the effort.Bottomline ,a good solid thriller to watch at night alone but only if you are the patient kind who really enjoy cinema A good 7 out of 10,
Has anyone actually watched a movie before?!
posted on 22 Aug 2009This movie is not fantastic or the new standard for all horror films. It is pretty mediocre but with the hundreds, if not thousands, of horror movies that come out every year, both theater and straight-to-DVD, I would still say this is on the higher end of the genre. I can name at least a 1000 horror movies that are far worse. So, I that is why I ask if "anyone has actually watched a movie before"? Plot development: Not really a staple of horror, it worked for the Saw series but that is not the norm. Being scared for real: I love horror movies but have yet to even jump in my seat watching one, so I don't give 1 star or comments like "worst movie ever" to any movie based on that. This movie did, however, go several steps too far with the loud noises just for the sake of startling the "special" kids in the audience. I also, hated the crap ending with the survivor who appears dead but in the last half second of the movie jumps to life. Pretty weak ending but weak endings are fairly common in horror films. I also don't think people appreciate that of all the horror films that come out "based on real events" realize this is the only one that could actually happen to you one day. I don't think a psycho is going to claw me to death in my dreams. I don't think a dead retard wearing a hockey mask is going to hunt me down. Some crazy skank with a butcher knife and china doll mask could possibly stab me (if you ever lived in NYC, you know that this IS feasible). That is meant to be the scare tactic of this film, the reality potential, not the gallons of red kool-aid and cumbersome chainsaw used as mass murder weapon. THIS ISN'T ANY OF THOSE MOVIES. This is "Strangers" so just watch the damn thing!
okay!
posted on 22 Aug 2009the movie the strangers was a fairly good movie. i didn't see it in theaters but i was still freaked out. i sometimes do not like movies that stay in one place. at some seens i was just mad at the idiocracy of liv and the other guy. i thought the movie could have been better. the killers could have at least gotten stabbed or at least wounded. i didn't want to see a movie where the killer doesn't even get hurt. i wish that it had also had a better ending. no one wants to see a film that enrages them at the end. movies that have endings when the characters die are just stupid. i gave this movie 7 stars because of its plot. but if no one would have don anything to make it seem more realistic i would have shut the DVD off. anyway, it was okay.
Your typical horror movie
posted on 20 Aug 2009I looked forward to The Strangers for a long time but it disappointed me. It was a typical horror movie with jump scenes that you could predict. This movie shows that people kill just to kill. It shows that there are some deranged people in the world. The main characters in this movie were dumb like in every other horror movie. It could have been good with a few tweaks around the corners like an interesting twist in the end but it didn't have anything that would make it stick out from another horror movie. The Strangers made me jump out of my seat every now and then but it isn't a movie that i would exactly recommend you see.
Sorry, this movie is beyond awful.....
posted on 16 Aug 2009This movie was the most absolute, absurdly, undeniably ridiculous horrific spectacle to date. It is an utter shame we cannot ask for our money back and then sue the theater, Producers and Directors for displaying such a worthless and mindless piece of mess. There were majorly huge continuity issues, no well thought out scenes, I honestly do not believe kids (let alone adults) would walk into a disheveled bloody house, saunter around and snooping being nosy and then comfortably kneel by a brutally attacked bloody person to stare……? I could be wrong but logically thinking, hauling butt to the nearest home or store for help makes more sense. But this film isn't about sense is it? It is about a gibberish calamity of idiotic errors of judgment and actions showcasing blundering clueless people who cannot figure out how to get out of the house for help and how the killers somehow have the innate ability to conveniently stroll in and out of a house full of locked doors and windows to pursue and complete a terroristic campaign. Why wasn't the car fire reported by a neighbor? It is against the law in any state to have an out of control fire working in a residential neighborhood. Flying embers and debris. That is the law. Also, the victims could not have been too far from civilization for the two young boys to walk and cycle around? As the boys walked, there were numerous houses in the vicinity. Anyway, the ex-fiancé/boyfriend's dialogue and actions were hysterically dense and pointless. I have no idea why he was there. I was so sick and tired of listening to Liv Tyler scream that I felt like screaming from the pain of it all. And then, the brilliant best friend (in conjunction with all of the other stupid situations that occurred throughout the film), drives up, never notices that the car he is approaching from the rear in the single columned driveway has been in some type of accident. Luckily for him a rock is thrown in his front windshield, to allow him to flee from his truck, stretch his legs and discover the obvious overlooked truth of him and his friend's banged up vehicle. Instead, the dimwit friend stands outside of his truck delivering the best line he probably auditioned with and then haphazardly notices the back of his friends bashed in car? Was he not paying attention as he drove up? Ash...I guess not. Genus! Instead of him jumping back into his truck and rapidly backing his butt off of the property to safety while calling for help on his cell phone, he intelligently strolls up to the ax riddled shot gun tattered front door and painstakingly walks 2-3 minutes from the front door to the hallway (a short walk mind you) through the house that looks as awful as the last "Halloween 99 – Jason reincarnated" version of a massacre movie, slowly turns his head because he hears something behind him? He not one time called out for his friends. What the heck! Hahahahahaahahah...Brother! There are too many mishaps to post.Just wow what a joke! This film was so beyond valueless it is not advantageous expounding about it any longer. The bottom line. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!! If this project manages to make it to the tele (which I hope it never does) TURN THE CHANNEL QUICKLY AND DON'T GO BACK TO THAT CHANNEL UNTIL 2 HOURS LATER!! Spare yourself the grief.….Actually, this film can't even be use as a "Don't let This Happen To You" book for dummies for potential Directors and Producers….But you would be dumb to go see it.If this is a true story, I am very sorry it happened and that this production made such a mockery of the story line; some things and stories are better left alone.I hope I have not ruined anything for anyone but this project is not good I am sorry to say and I do not mean to be cruel. Also, remember the actors can only give what they have to work with. Most over, some projects cannot be saved no matter what phenomenal actors are used. I enjoy Liv Tyler as an actor. With her abilities, she couldn't dig this one out of the ditch.This was just not a good project at all.Use your best judgment.Sincerely
Horrible
posted on 16 Aug 2009This movie is wiggity wiggity whack. It is pointless and made me angry. I do not like movies that are bad and make me angry. Because then i am not happy afterwards. And then the movie served me no purpose but to upset me because it was so horrible. How about a little more speaking? If you like this movie, i do not know how to help you. What this movie just did, was one of the most insanely idiotic things i have ever seen. At no point during the rambling, and incoherent plot, was this movie even close to anything that could be thought of as a good movie. Everyone that watched this movie is now stupider for doing so. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
Because you were scared
posted on 16 Aug 2009I am not at all a fan of the so called "horror"-movies because what most producers think they need to do is create a gore-feast with cheap and ridiculously bad actors. But this is different.This is why I give that genre a chance to do its job right: suspense. Horror movies should not be about tons of gore and gallons of blood splattering but about gripping suspense. Important are the actors, since they need to act as if they were in the same fear in which we would be in their place. Liv Tyler definitely is. Great job on the acting, loads of suspense is delivered.Then at some point, you want it to be all over, as fast as possible. Not because you don't like it! But because the victims want it to be over as well. They are scared.So are you.I recommend you to watch this "open ended" suspense-movie during a quiet, dark night.Note: The movie keeps you away from thinking straight, I have to admit though, when it is all over you first try to understand the motivation of the criminals, then you think about the severe logical mistakes the character in the movie made. There are about 2 of those situations in which you may find the script ridiculously illogical, unnatural.
Director obsessed with Mansonesque themes
posted on 14 Aug 2009The front yard looks a lot like Cielo Drive - the masks on the killers and what we see when they take them off look a lot like Susan Atkins et al and the closing line of their dialog strikes a chord of the Family -- so what we see here I believe is a Director who is curious concerning what it may have been like on Cielo Drive in early August of 1969 -- he got the production money -- his dime -- so go for it. The only question is (like Ms. Tyler asks throughout the film) why? Sure it made me jump a few times - even though you could predict it -- and there is some decent crafting here (e.g. lighting and camera work is exceptional) - but there is not much else here. It also wrecks a decent country classic in Mama Tried by Merle Haggard which is misplaced, but maybe not, since the narrative has really no ground to walk on. The opening clips are intriguing concerning the slide-show like imagery of anyhouse America, as if the Strangers are just randomly selecting a house -- this does add a sense of horror as of these three are just starting their rampage and the wheel just stops on a country house where our stars will end up. I was definitely into it at that point. Then when the first knock of the door comes, it definitely gets the blood boiling and the brief discussion the protagonists have with the killer girl is quite good and eerie - but again -- if this was a true story and not a homage - it would strike direct terror. Most of us know what happened to Sharon Tate and if you play it over in your head it is stupefying. To see it recreated with cinematic tone and overlays of other horror-flicks - it just can't work as well -- it does not have the devilish backdrop of Manson and his manipulative ways. There is not enough time in any film to create that.
No Plot, Artificial Tension Leaves This One a Yawner
posted on 14 Aug 2009Horror movie fans who are sick of gore-fests may be tricked into thinking that this movie will be a breath of fresh air. While this movie does make a return to suspense over graphic violence, the whole experience is extremely shallow and predictable.The fist and more obvious issue is the lack of any real plot. But, hey, it's a slasher, so most people will be able to get over this one. Two people get assaulted while home alone in the middle of nowhere. It's not original, but it's worked before.Since there's no plot, the film has to rely on its use of suspense to make it interesting. Unfortunately, this is where the movie really falls flat. The director's methods of building suspense are extremely obvious and overbearing. Again, this might not be so bad, except that the point of suspense is to keep building and building until a single moment, preferably the climax. In "The Strangers," the suspense is broken about 50 times during the movie. Early on, there are a few "false scare" where you don't see the killers and two good moments when you do. After that however, I was tired of seeing these "pop-out" scares. They became very predictable, and because you could see them coming, the movie couldn't build up suspense anymore.Bottom line, this movie isn't really that scary. It tries (very hard) to be scary, but it's just too predictable and repetitive. If there's any bright spot in this one, it's that the acting isn't horrible.If you're looking for a good horror movie that uses suspense well, you can't go wrong with The Changeling, The Shining, Alien (if you like the sci-fi bent), the original Halloween.
Pitiful and predictable
posted on 14 Aug 2009Now I must begin by telling you that I am not a fan of the contemporary horror genre. Too many of the latest movie makers believe that blood and gore equate to horror and terror. WRONG!! In my opinion it takes a very clever movie maker to create a great horror movie...creating a feeling and anticipation of horror and terror without truly taking the short cut by replacing intelligent movie making with blood and gore. SO, when I read about this movie I thought OK, maybe this will be the movie to change my mind on the "new" semi-intelligent movie makers. I was *so* wrong about this movie. Granted the blood and gore is kept to a minimum but come on guys at least give us some character development, a plot line, create the illusion that you actually have the ability and creativity to make a quality film.The supposed horror and terror plot points are nothing more than the old standbys..."open the door or curtain and *boom* there is a shocking face...or "hey, what's that noise" kind of kindergarten terror routines. When a truly gifted and creative movie maker makes a truly creative horror movie then perhaps I will become a fan of the genre again. But this movie is not that movie. All of these mediocre movies are prime material for the "Scary Movie" producers!
This movie has everything!!! It's a must see!!!
posted on 14 Aug 2009...OK. This one is a must see: 1. if you're bored to death 2. if your girlfriend is to happy 3. if you're home alone and just finished laundry 4. if Cartoon Network is not working I just loved Liv playin'! But not in this movie. I loved her in "LOTR". This movie is a... Tom & Jerry for mature people. Only that we have 3 cats, and two mice. So... let's be happy that the next movie from this director will be a "Tweety & Silvester" one... Hope that Silvester will eat that little yellow spoiled bird!!! >:) Now I'm gonna take my kid to see this movie, cuz my son (9 years old), he really wanna see it. Oh, pls, don't say I'm a creep: it's for his own good -this movie will finally help me to teach him to lock the door when I'm gone. :) Have anyone remember "The Thing", "Shining", "Cannibal Holocaust" (this one will be back soon!!! -Cannibals- and will be released in 2009, from the same director of the 1980 movie).
Why oh why!
posted on 14 Aug 2009Please can i have the hour and half of my life i wasted with this! A plot so thin you can see what is coming before the title's have finished! full of holes.. honestly their are so many great films to see don't wast the time with this one!For me a thriller is to make you jump and twist and turn when you don't expect it.. every step of the way with this film i could see what was going to happen.. it was almost laughable.If you must see then wait for TV Showing or DVD rental..i think i would even be disappointed had i rented! refund please.For those who enjoyed.. sorry..
Sucked
posted on 14 Aug 2009This film was so bad i felt compelled to express myself and save you all of around 1hour 25mins of your lives and the expense of the cinema tickets...How this movie ever came to be funded is beyond comprehension.... the plot is ridiculously thin amounting to 2 people being trapped in a house only to be stabbed by 3 other people... 3 strangers (hence the title).Nor does a reason ever become apparent as to why the killers are the way they are... whether it be they were dropped on the head as babies... or something that they drank through lead pipes... No attempt is made to redeem this movie at the end by adding in some sort of twist... just a petty grasp at one final scare when the lead actress (Liv Tyler) presumed dead... awakens screaming in a Mormon child's face - which i personally found rather amusing! On a lighter note, if any of you people reading this haven't yet seen the dark knight... BOOK YOUR CINEMA TICKETS NOW!!! and for those like myself disappointed with batman begins i can confidently say the dark knight pisses all over 'the strangers'...Anyone who thinks this movie is remotely scary i recommend watch Dead Silence...
Not Scary
posted on 14 Aug 2009I just finished watching this movie, it was so scary that it took me 2 nights to watch the whole thing because I fell asleep 50 minutes into the first night. I gave it another shot tonight and I managed to STAY AWAKE! There was not one scene that made me jump or cringe even a little bit. I kind of feel IMDb has forsaken me with the rating on this one. I would actually give it 1 extra point for the masks that were a little creepy but I am taking it back for the over inflated rating.I kept waiting for any sort of explanation about anything...PLEASE GIVE ME A REASON TO GIVE A CRAP ABOUT IF THESE PEOPLE LIVE OR DIE! or at least have some gratuitous nude scenes with Liv Tyler.All the people who thought this was scary are F'in 8 year olds dude.
Pretty decent,not great
posted on 28 Aug 2009This movie probably doesn't live up to it's hype....most films don't, especially horror films.This movie was well made but lacking in some meat...... much of the tenseness of the film wasn't fulfilled.A young couple just back from a friend's wedding party arrive at the man's secluded family summer home.They apparently had broken up during or after the wedding party.It wasn't really made clear however they weren't having a good night.And it would get worse.The house is attacked by 3 weirdos wearing spooky looking masks.Suddenly the break up didn't seem so bad compared to what lay ahead.This movie was well made.After a slow start it gets pretty tense once the action starts.There isn't a ton of gore or bad language so I've had a hard time figuring out why it was R rated.The tenseness,rather than gore,is this movie's fuel.It's done quite well.An old record player in the home is used nicely to build tension with it's skips and sudden starts.One of the records played is "Mama Tried" by Merle Haggard and his band,The Strangers.Get it?Plus if you listen to the lyrics of the song it sort of makes you think of how these masked weirdos were once someone's kid..... It was a nice touch although I'm guessing that most of the teen crowd who saw this movie while I was there would have no clue who Merle Haggard is and certainly not know the name of his band.Yeah they can tell you everything Kenny Chesney has ever recorded but have no clue about perhaps the finest songwriter in country music history....oh well....I suppose that is a rant for another day.You could tell this film was trying to be maybe a modern day "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or something along those lines with the isolated house and the masks and the weirdness of the attackers.It doesn't quite reach that level of fright but it is a cut above most of the stuff released under the label of horror these days.The acting and the sparse script are quite good in the film and the director did well,some shots were really creepy.But it reminded me of "High Tension" or "Wolf Creek" more than it did some classic horror films it was perhaps aiming for.Anyway most of the reviewers I read in papers and on line had this one pegged pretty well....it was a well made film but the ending sort of peters out like maybe the director didn't know how to wrap it up.Of course ,as with 90% of the horror films made today,you get a hint that maybe there will be a Part 2 to this one.This movie would be a good rental rather than spending the full price of a movie theater admission.And its strictly a rental,not good enough to add to your movie collection.And I'm not sure if this film was good enough to warrant a sequel....but that doesn't always matter either,especially with horror films.