The Strangers (2008)

MAY 27, 2008












What say you?


  1. I did go see Ruins and Doomsday - both were great. I agree that if folks don't support the good horror movies, all we will have are endless crappy PG13 remakes of good movies. I have been anxiously awaiting the Midnight Meat Train for a good while - I love Clive barker. I thought they were making a movie out of my favorite story of his, Dread, but apparently that has fallen through the cracks :(

  2. Actually Dread is shooting later this summer!

  3. I saw both The Ruins and Doomsday and both were a blast, and I really can't wait for this. The tagline on the posters "Because they were home" is just so chilling to me.

  4. I thought this movie was ok. I like that there was no motive, makes it creepier. It's similar in that way to Heneke's Funny Games, which is a nice, disturbing, in-no-way-uplifting movie.

  5. I really did like most of the movie but...
    how can people so good at stalking and terrorizing be so terrible at killing? If I spend the better part of my night scaring the shit out of someone in preparation to kill them, I would make sure to actually KILL THEM.
    Liv Tyler's baby voice. What was that? I wanna set it on fire.
    Lastly, somebody who thinks proposing at somebody else's wedding probably deserves to get stabbed. and rejected.

  6. You know, I SO looked forward to this movie - and I'm a huge Halloween/Night of the Living Dead fan - so the simplicity should have been appealing. But it left me hollow. In the end, while I didn't root for the killers (as I did for the sharks in Open Water), I didn't care enough about Liv and Scott to root for them either.

    And little things, like the fact that the top of the car is shown and it's burned BEFORE the car is burned in the movie drove me crazy.

  7. i finished this tonight; i don't know, brian, but i liked them better. i found liv tyler to be irritating as hell and her boyfriend to be condescending and inept.

    also, in terms of the spoilers.... well, i actually don't want to spoil it for anyone, either, so i'll just talk to you about it i guess. i thought them was 10x better.

  8. i watched this last night..
    and you are right..the tension in the house is freakin NUTS..
    my wife almost made me turn it off.

    I wasnt expecting to like this movie that much, because unfortunately alot of the people who see every movie that I talk to..dont like most of the movies they watch. so i hear "it sucks" for almost all movies.

    but i enjoyed..

  9. Since this movie came & went in like a week I figured that it must suck. I rented it the day it came out & loved it.

    It is probably the most plausible horror movie (the director describes it this as a "terror movie" in the special features) I have ever seen. Sure there are a few cliches- live the CB in the shed- but I actually had trouble sleeping after watching it.

    Great use of source music & Waylon Jenning's "Mama Tried"

  10. good film. i like the fact we don't know who the killers are, and they left it open ended. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm liv tyler! i have seen the other films mentioned but i don't know if i can feel a musical like repo! i see the bluray for repo on sale and i just can't push myself to buy it. any who now to watch ils.

  11. Interesting to see what you had to say about this, I heard a lot of bad reviews, but I thought it was really good, certainly better than a lot of horror movies out there. Bit of a poor ending though.

  12. This movie was awesome! I enjoyed the chase and hide and seek feel of it!!!The fact that theres no reason for the murders makes it creepy and I love creepy!! I enjoyed that there was no real convos between the killers and the victums.....straight up fuck u...u was home so now u must die!!! LOVED IT!!


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