All in all, though, this is very good movie once it gets going. Hesitate!" Good advice, at least for victims in Horror movies, anyway. Apparently this individual never watched Die Hard: "Next time you have the chance to kill someone, don't Screaming - for a character with a gun to pull the trigger on one of the killers, the classic "just shoot, idiot!" moment that every Horror film Moments of violent chaos, the film, and its characters, struggle through classic bouts of hesitation, when the audience will be clamoring. The flat characterizationĬertainly doesn't help the audience sympathize when they act foolishly. Recourses a third of the way through and, by the end, all but dispatches the bad memories of less than an hour prior. It's only by sheer force of will, skill, and moments of intense operatic violence that the movie Tropes see the movie stall out before it even gets going. It takes far too long for anything of interest to happen, and the flat characterization and predictable It's that opening act that's the movie low point. Music alwaysĬompliments the moment with impressive selection chops and scene enhancement ("Total Eclipse of the Heart" is particularly effective),Ĭomplimented by an 80s-inspired genre score (and a great title card, too) that altogether raise each murder scene's effectiveness many times over. Seem very capable of shaping with overwhelming emotion as the viewer can all but see their lives slowly flashing before their eyes. The dying characters that add an intimate depth to the carnage and allow the viewer to all but experience those dying breaths in which the actors, to The kills are raw and brutal and hard to watch, usually set into motion with an agonizingly effective build-up to the moment and The Strangers: Prey at Night takes full advantage of their ![]() Killers - and as brutal and methodical as any the screen has ever seen. ![]() That's contrasted with the killers, who are as anonymous they come - classic nameless, faceless, mute They're all generic cut-outs, classic fodder filler whose constructions serve only to put them into positionįor the slaughter. Ultimately mean little in the larger picture. The movie frustrates with an overlong opening act that strives to give some personality traits to the family which The family soon finds itself stalkedīy a trio of killers - Dollface (Emma Bellomy), Pin-Up Girl (Lea Enslin), and Man in the Mask (Damian Maffei) - who will stop at nothing to hunt and Inside they discover a pair of badly mutilated bodies. Place, stumble across a trailer with the front door wide open. They settle in but quickly realize they're not alone. They arrive to find the place all but abandoned. Madison) - on the verge of bankruptcy to pay for rebellious daughter's stay at boarding school packs up to spend the weekend in a trailer park with It's a solid Slasher film, very well made and brutal as necessary, overcoming aĭragging first act and empty characterization by sheer force of intensity and craftsmanship in its second and particularly third acts.Ī dysfunctional family - father Mike (Martin Henderson), mother Cindy (Christina Hendricks), son Luke (Lewis Pullman), and daughter Kinsey (Bailee Quietly, methodically, and brutally slay for no apparent reason. (hence perhaps the reason why it's subtitled rather than a "2" slapped on it) but rather another chapter in the story of a trio of masked killers who The Strangers: Prey at Night isn't so much a sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street or Jason Voorhees). When the name brand isn't exactly part of the popular lexicon (i.e. ![]() ![]() In a crowded genre (and a densely packed movie landscape in general), a decade is an eternity to wait for a sequel, particularly It's actually been going on 10 years now since The Strangers debuted to positive reviews, a long time to appreciate the Time flies at warp speed on the movie release schedule. The Strangers: Prey at Night Blu-ray Review
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