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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Martin comes to a small quiet town seeking to kill his wife Ana who suffers from a very dangerous disease that makes her addicted to human blood, just like himself. When he arrives, he discovers that Ana has been dead for a couple of years and decides to commit suicide to definitely eradicate this dangerous disease, but, before he can do...

Directed By: Guillermo Amoedo

Written By: Guillermo Amoedo

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 33 m

The Stranger

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Martin comes to a small quiet town seeking to kill his wife Ana who suffers from a very dangerous disease that makes her addicted to human blood, just like himself. When he arrives, he discovers that Ana has been dead for a couple of years and decides to commit suicide to definitely eradicate this dangerous disease, but, before he can do...

Directed By: Guillermo Amoedo

Written By: Guillermo Amoedo

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60
Jun 11, 2015
The movie benefits greatly from Mr. Amoedo’s largely steady direction and the uniform acting skills of its Chilean cast (performing in English).
By Andy Webster FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 11, 2015
While the director/screenwriter is to be commended for avoiding the usual bloodsucker clichés, he hasn't replaced them with anything particularly interesting, with the result that the story plays like a quasi-mystical melodrama featuring characters about whom we care little.
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40
Jun 11, 2015
Once Amoedo lays all the cards out on the table, The Stranger feels like a piece of genre revisionism only in its deliberate, grinding pace, not in any refreshing turns of the plot.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 11, 2015
Seeking existential, noirish heft, Amoedo coyly avoids articulating what Martin is. (He calls himself "sick.") But it only comes across like an amateur play at gravitas, one unsupported by dully weighted scenes and clunky dialogue, delivered mostly by English-speaking actors straining to hide Latin accents.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
25
Jun 12, 2015
While The Stranger is bad, the fact that it makes you wait and wait for its excessively dismal perspective to be justified by a measly little twist is even worse.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
20
Jun 11, 2015
The movie touts a “Presented By” credit for modern horror maven Eli Roth, but there’s none of that director’s shock or sly subversion. Don’t bother getting to know this stranger.
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Production Company Sobras International Pictures
Release Date Jun 12, 2015
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Blood will tear us apart
Website https://www.facebook.com/TheStranger2014
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Awards

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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