Something went wrong
Try again later.
The Strangers
'Is Tamara here?' You should be careful with a knock at 4am. For young couple Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman, it comes with three masked assailants, who break into the remote summer home and destroy all means of escape or calling for help by destroying their car, cell phones, and phone line.
5 January 1995, Sarasota, Florida, USA
16 July 1973, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 July 1977, New York City, New York, USA
13 April 1976, Japan
3 November 1987, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
1 September 1975, London, England, UK
October 11, 2010
There’s no better feet-on-the-seat execution for the home-invasion genre than this. "The Strangers" twists the knife with scenes lasting a beat longer than normal to maximize dread and sound design excavating a hole in your cortex and nestling there.
August 26, 2009
Grinding and suffocating
October 21, 2014
But I guess it's just hard for a movie about characters with bags on their heads to have any real teeth.
July 06, 2010
Nothing gets the old heart pumping like the fear of home invasion, but you wouldn't know it by The Strangers, an utterly pointless portrait of domestic terror.
June 02, 2008
A sadistic, unmotivated home-invasion flick.
October 14, 2012
Just get comfortable, sit back and smile at the slaughter - unlike Funny Games, at least this is bloodshed you can enjoy.
October 18, 2008
The Strangers has a couple of scares, but it's not anywhere near as frightening as advertised. The creepy folks of the title are more fumbling than fiendish.
June 02, 2008
Don't let the attractive cast, the slick look or the 'inspired by true events' nonsense mislead you. The Strangers is a despicable and mean-spirited practical joke.
May 31, 2008
Kind of like what The Shining might be if you took out the ESP. And the ghosts. And the chilling atmosphere. So call it The Sucking.
July 18, 2008
At least it's short.
August 29, 2008
This suspense film by first-time writer-director Bryan Bertino initially squeezes some surprisingly effective scares out of familiar elements. Sadly, the scenario quickly becomes attenuated and unbelievable.
