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MPAA RATING: R for violence/terror and language
Starring Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Gemma Ward, Kip Weeks, Laura Margolis, and Glenn Howerton
The Strangers is a terrifying suspense thriller about a couple whose remote getaway becomes a place of terror when masked strangers invade. The confrontation forces Kristen and James to go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive. (Rogue Pictures)
| GENRE(S): | Horror | Mystery | Suspense/Thriller |
| WRITTEN BY: | Bryan Bertino |
| DIRECTED BY: | Bryan Bertino |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 21, 2008 Theatrical: May 30, 2008 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 146 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Victor C gave it a7:
A horrific film. It contains great scares and is full of suspense. Although, a sequel would ruin it.
N Chunn gave it a0:
Craft? so what......? mpvies are art, like it or not, and will be judged accordingly.... If you listen to a great singer singing about infanticide and incest with glee, are they judged on their singing ability? OR their content - lyrically and in content of character? the latter. End of story. Plenty of ppl can sing, and anyone can point a camera and say 'action'..... point is, can you produce something worthwhile, relevant, original? answer here = Nope. Thus the strangers takes a 'true story / real events" premise and surmises, at great insult to all living relatives and the victims themselves, that the three masks found belonged to heartless, or black-hearted rather, sadistic murderers that like to psychologically torture their victims before they kill them hours later etc etc..... when there is no proof or reason for this WHATSOEVER.... Oh and could the two of you poosibly split up unnecessarily any more than you did in this clechefest? Um, sorry, but that is BS and represents the kind of heartless, insulting, sadistic behaviour literally, that they were ironically supposed to be commenting on within the movie figuratively.... How appalling and irresponsible. The likely scenario is that the 3 masks simply belonged to the three victims, that they were a love triangle or similar and something passionate and regrettable and tragic happened. So Bryan Bertino comes along and instead of making what he thought he had - some sort of sensational, original, ground-breaker like the Last House on the Left (also fairly unnecessary - and I say that as a horror afficionado who disagrees that torture porn and horror are interchangeable), Bryan has just insulted the dead, the living and anyone dumb enough to hand over cash for this pointless, self-obsessed, patronising, superfluous, waste of space, time and money. The absolutely epitome of style over substance, sprinkled in pointless sadism.... If I was a serial killer, I would masturbate in front of this film.... why not? Seems perfect...... A little bit of snuff for the masses eh Bryan? Shame on you f***ing idiots. You have damned a generation with your propoganda and BS. Have a frikkin' heart FGS - this movie achieves precisely NOTHING. Also many of the reviewers above are clearly not well-versed in horror, as the movie was predictable, crammed with cliche and an empty, vacuous exercise in the monotony of unceasing disrespect and cynicism..... NOT - "invested brilliantly in silence"... lol... that's the philosophical semantics of a frikkin' amateur. Change your profession or narrow your movie genres for review - you're not up to it sonny.... Time to move on chump.
Dave J. gave it a1:
Lame wanna-be pseudo-horror.
Ryan S. gave it a9:
Huh...maybe i'm not as smart as i think i am because i thought this was one of the scariest movies i've seen in a while....i like terror thrillers though, not so much the silly gore movies but the ones that make you use all your senses..not just your eyes.
Brian P. gave it a10:
Truly awesome!! more of a thriller,scary horror movie than most expensive movies I've seen! very shocking scare the heck out of you scenes!
Marc W. gave it a2:
Why does every cameraman these days seem to have parkinson's disease? The camera is just jittery enough to be distracting and pull you out of the experience. Every "shock" moment in the film calls and let's you know it is coming before leaping out with a cliched "boo." The pacing is abysmally slow, there is no insight into the murderer's motivations, and the suposed realism of the film is betrayed by the complete lack of character of the killers. I would be outraged by the purile senslessness of this film if it didn't leave me so bored.
AJ gave it a0:
Anyone out there with a higher rating than -0- is full of shit! The absolute worst movies I have seen in quite some time. I'm actually pissed about how horrible this film was.....utter waste of my time and money. I swear, if I were to ever have the chance of meeting the director, I'd pop him right in the face for putting such a piece of shit on the market. Shame on the production company for ever letting this garbage hit the market....PURE GARBAGE!
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