The Strangers

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1h 25m

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Kristen (Liv Tyler) and James (Scott Speedman) are expecting a relaxing weekend at a family vacation home, but their stay turns out to be anything but peaceful. First, a mysterious and dangerous woman arrives at the door while James is out on an errand. When he returns, he accidentally kills his friend Mike (Glenn Howerton), mistaking him for an intruder. And then real danger does show up -- in the form of three masked torturers, leaving Kristen and James struggling for survival.

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Critics Consensus

The Strangers has a handful of genuinely scary moments, but they're not enough to elevate the end results above standard slasher fare.

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Sara Vilkomerson

Observer

The movie is best before the mayhem actually starts: First-time writer-director Bryan Bertino gets right some priceless details as the couple try to deal with the evening's earlier fallout, and elevates his movie above other horror films.

Mar 31, 2019

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

The formula of calm followed by shock is repeated until one tires of the technical polish of Bryan Bertino's directorial debut (with nods towards Funny Games and the French Them?) in the absence of coherent plot or character development.

Mar 31, 2019

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Adam Nayman

The Ringer

Bertino's directorial smarts are on display from the first slow-cut montage of rural homes glimpsed from the window of a moving car. It's a passage suggesting free-floating, arbitrary menace.

Mar 9, 2018

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Not even Bertino’s impressive formal control as a first-time director can make up for how empty the material is and how absurdly familiar the whole thing proves to be

Rated: 1/4

May 19, 2024

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Toussaint Egan

Polygon

A lean and profoundly gripping horror movie that strips the home invasion subgenre down to its bare essential parts to drive home the intimate, primal terror of its premise.

Oct 20, 2021

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

The Strangers isn't scary, just tedious.

Rated: 1/4

Aug 31, 2021

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Audience Member

Slow and predictable at first, then takes a turn and give the main characters things they need to survive the attack and the simple just don't use them. Wicked predictable and just bad.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/13/24

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James B

short but sweet film scott speedman and liv tyler are great in this film a well shot creepy horror film with good cinematography camera work and is the best of the strangers franchise more like a thriller than a horror film not very scary

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/08/24

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Audience Member

A whole lotta nothing, It’s like your average horror movie, I’d rather watch The Titanic

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/04/24

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Me D

It uses silence as a tool of fear, which is cool, but it gets a little boring throughout the movie at some parts.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/04/24

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Suzanne L

Worst movie I have ever watched. I feel guilty like I did something wrong by spending the $11 to watch this. It was not worth it. Absolutely horrible. Nobody in the movie even talks. No communication. The couple just hid around the house until they got tied up, asked to marry one another, cried saying I love you and stabbed to death. The girl lived but whatever, the masked guy stabbed her in the pelvis first because she said eff you. Lamest ever. I would be embarrassed to be an actor in this.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/04/24

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Valdir F

One of my favorite movie of all time. The Strangers is a radical take on home invasion genre, and grants us with terrific and genuine performances of the leads plus top-notch suspense. Amazing!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/02/24

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Synopsis

Kristen (Liv Tyler) and James (Scott Speedman) are expecting a relaxing weekend at a family vacation home, but their stay turns out to be anything but peaceful. First, a mysterious and dangerous woman arrives at the door while James is out on an errand. When he returns, he accidentally kills his friend Mike (Glenn Howerton), mistaking him for an intruder. And then real danger does show up -- in the form of three masked torturers, leaving Kristen and James struggling for survival.

Director: Bryan Bertino
Producer: Doug Davison, Roy Lee, Nathan Kahane
Screenwriter: Bryan Bertino
Distributor: Rogue Pictures
Production Co: Intrepid Pictures, Rogue Pictures, Mandate Pictures, Vertigo, E1 Entertainment
Rating: R (Violence/Terror|Language)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 30, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 15, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $52.5M
Runtime: 1h 25m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby SRD, DTS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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