![]() The villains are the stars, even though their faces are covered and they barely speak. The family is generic, just victims waiting to be taken. The jump scares are secondary to the notion of the ruthless faceless murderers. “Why are you doing this?” Kinsey shrieks. Bad things just happen and that’s the creepy part. Instead, it is a queasy-making experience that stems from the idea of people doing awful things for no reason. However, the movie never gets to the point where it is actually scary. The spooky opening, complete with anxiety inducing music, a bit of murder and a title card claiming the tale you are about to see is “based on true events,” sets up the film’s uneasy atmosphere. From that point on this becomes a movie where people make terrible decisions and frequently scream, “Leave us alone!” Things get lively when three masked psycho killers-Dollface (Emma Bellomy), Man in the Mask (Damian Maffei) and Pin-Up Girl (Lea Enslin)-emerge from the woods with knives, axes and bad intentions. You know Kinsey is a rebellious teen because she wears an off the shoulder Ramones T-shirt and smokes cigarettes.Īrriving at their new home, a deserted trailer park, the kids are immediately bored as the parents try and make the best of an uncomfortable situation. The change is an attempt to separate Kinsey from the bad influences surrounding her in the city. Leaving the city behind, they’re off to Gatlin Lake, a small community that empties out after Labour Day. ![]() ![]() The story gets underway when parents Cindy (Christina Hendricks) and Mike (Martin Henderson) load their teens Kinsey (Bailee Madison) and Luke (Lewis Pullman) into the car, on the way to a new life. At the same time there’s nothing natural about the horrors unleashed by the all-too-human monsters of this film. I’m super excited about it.Movies like “The Strangers: Prey at Night” unsettle me more than stories featuring Dracula, Frankenstein or anything other thing that goes bump in the night because there’s nothing supernatural going on. ![]() All of these influences are finding their way into the movie, but I think it’s going to be a real fantastic movie. It has a real strong emotional heart, which the first one did, and it has a very cool retro feel to it, a lot of sort of references to… I mean, I always bring a lot of John Carpenter with me because that’s what I grew up on, but also maybe going back a bit earlier to the seventies movies, from Don’t Look Now to Duel, the Spielberg movie, even Christine a bit, the John Carpenter movie. I love Bertino’s film, I think it’s an amazing movie and tonally this movie is going to fit very well into that universe. It’s Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison, Lewis Pullman, and they’re f***ing great. Strangers: Prey at Night is directed by Johannes Roberts from a script penned by Bertino and Ben Ketai the film stars Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, and Martin Henderson. Official Synopsis: When their road trip takes a turn, a family arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay in a borrowed trailer for the night, until three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test their every limit. The long-gestating sequel to Bryan Bertino’s home invasion masterpiece The Stranger will arrive in US Theaters on March 9th, 2018 under the title Strangers: Prey at Night!
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