Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The Strangers, follows a couple as they stay in a vacant vacation home after some relationship issues not realizing they will soon be fighting for their lives as three strangers are hunting them around the house to kill and terrorize. The film is pretty gruesome considering these were based on true events. This film is okay though keeps the suspense. The movie was a bit dragged and took a while for the killers to prey even though most scenes they could have killed the couple on the spot. Though, I guess that's just part of their game. I would recommend the film for those looking for a light thrill.Kristen: "Why are you doing this to us?" Dollface: "Because you were home."-The Strangers

Complete garbage.... I just wasted one hour and twenty six minutes that I can't get back.... I'd recommend this movie to no one

This movie is astonishing. There is this constant creepy mood throughout the show that keeps you on your toes of what will happen next. This movie completely leaves the whole "pop-out scares" to get you freaked out and rather preys on you by using multiple tiny little details that make your hair stand up. This constant use of paranoia is what makes the movie a classic. The characters are somewhat likeable. You will likely end up cheering for them but you won't have strong feelings when you see them suffer because the movie doesn't spend a whole whack of time developing them before the killers come into the picture. Just enough to make you feel a minor connection.What this horror movie does well is build up the tension. In most movies, we see the tension get built up for about twenty minutes then you have a big scare which releases the tension. Then builds it back up and so on. The Strangers doesn't give you that break. It continues to build up and up and up and you get more freaked out and paranoid, anticipating the end. It works in such a beautiful way that you don't feel ripped off when you don't see any actual killing.Now I know it is against the rules but I feel obligated to stand up for this film since I see it is getting unfair critique. Many people are giving it dangerously low ratings because the characters did not behave logically in certain situations...People mess up on everyday things. I'm sure if you throw in three killers in a stressful situation, they aren't thinking about every detail but rather acting on pure adrenaline. people gave this a rating of 1 star because the guy took off his jacket which had the bullets in it...I mean, I forget my car keys half the time and that is on a good day and without mass murderers trying to stab me with pointy objects so I don't think giving this low ratings because the characters made some poor decision justifies the entirety of this film. If you are looking for blood, guts, people dying left and right, this is not the film for you. If you want a creepy show that will make your hair stand up and have you shouting at the screen, then watch this!

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 remember 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.