A must-see for horror fans, but the fewer questions you ask, the more effective it will be.
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05/29/08
The Strangers (2008)
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Reviews Counted:142
Fresh:63
Rotten:79
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: The Strangers provides a few scares, but offers little else to distinguish itself from other slasher films.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $52,534,295
Synopsis: For his film debut, director Brian Bertino has crafted a fantastically creepy horror flick based on the very simple premise of strangers who come knocking late at night. Kristen (Liv Tyler) and... [More]
Reviews for The Strangers
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Speedman remains comatose, though Tyler flickers fitfully to life. The mournful look on her face suggests she's remembering the days when she was given more psychologically complex scripts, such as Armageddon.
05/29/08
The Strangers gave me a look of disbelief, not the suspension of same, with its jaw dropping flaws.
05/29/08
Anchored by convincing performances from Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler, both of whom elevate their roles above the standard horror-movie caricature, this is an enormously unsettling movie.
05/29/08
A crisply made exercise in empty tension, like the stretched edges of an over-inflated balloon animal.
05/29/08
At a certain point, The Strangers devolves into the kind of generic chase picture that slasher flicks frequently become.
05/29/08
There’s little that distinguishes this movie’s basic plot from scores of other fright films over the decades, but The Stranger is more effective than most because of [director] Bertino’s deft manipulation of the storyteller’s tools.
05/29/08
If you're a fan of the genre, The Strangers provides all the shocks and scares you could possibly want.
05/29/08
The momentum Bertino builds up over the course of the movie is deflated by an ending that doesn't match the rest of the film.
05/29/08
The climax is deadening. Somewhere, Michael Haneke is saying, 'I told you so.'
05/29/08
Bertino’s cat-and-mouse chase is genuinely terrifying. If the director learns how to make what happens once the mouse is caught just as interesting, he’ll have a long, prosperous future ahead of him.
05/29/08
The real problem is that there's absolutely nothing original here and it's obvious they tried to take what works and recycle it.
05/28/08
The Strangers is one of those inane fright fests that relies upon the victimizers being omniscient and omnipresent while the victims are complete morons.
05/28/08
The Strangers isn't scary, just tedious, and the final image shows that Bertino didn't even have the balls to follow the story to its logical ending.
05/28/08
If you put yourself through the wringer only once this year, you could do worse than The Strangers.
05/28/08
Any good thriller should make you worry about walking through the door and into your dark apartment, but The Strangers may prevent you from ever going home again.
05/28/08
In "Funny Games," two blond boys terrorize a couple for similarly inexplicable but clearly sociopathic reasons. So, gee, one wonders where Bertino conceived his idea.
05/28/08
...looks like a student film made at a friend's house where the only direction given to the cast was to scream.
05/28/08
Seriously underwritten, depending too much on Liv Tyler's abiity to pout, to shriek, to cry and to cry again.
05/27/08
An old-school spooker spun from the blood splatter on a wall, a nearby record player scratching an oldie, a CB radio in the garage, a creaky swing set in the backyard.
05/27/08
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