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''You're gonna die.''
A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.
Liv Tyler: Kristen McKay
Scott Speedman: James Hoyt
Firstly the film The Strangers shouldn't be watched by certain people thinking about moving to the US. Seriously it puts you off. Moonlighting as a Texas Chainsaw Massacre or a Jeepers Creepers flick, it's obvious with any horror film there is not going to be any degree of originality. This applies to The Strangers.
Having said that who blooming well cares? Horror movie. Scares and jumps, that's what you want right? You don't want depth and a complex plot, we the audience want it simplified.
Although The Strangers begins suddenly with it's Resident Evil like narration, then deteriorates into slightly boring proportions, involving the two main stars, Kristen and James. Despite the relatively boring details about them Strangers throws at us once the film begins to get going with the scares and the suspense, it soars.
Liv Tyler gives us a very different role to her iconic Arwen in LOTR, as Kristen McKay she tries her hand at the horror scene. She can't really do any wrong with the material provided, and she genuinely appears scared at the proceedings.
Scott Speedman of Underworld, gives us James Hoyt, the other side to the troubled relationship. He can do action, he's proved that. He again proves it with Strangers, same again for the acting here. Standard stuff.
Bemusedly enough, Strangers did succeed in making me jump on various occasions and my girlfriend, who ended up scaring me more than the film did.
Weirdly I did also find it funny in places, Three masked individuals and a penchant for violence and mystery. Funnily enough, this film gives amazing tips for Halloween as well as being somewhat serious. The freedom in America means we get some twisted, sick individuals out there who don't care about money, wealth, emotions or possessions. They just want blood and in their minds, it's Fun...
I mean who can honestly say that they don't have some kind of weird secret obsession or strange hobby, it's just this specific one is a tad extreme I admit.
Strangers trio cleverly are never unveiled and personally I'm pleased it's kept like this. Relatively realistic in not showing them even when they remove their masks to show that this is random, this could be anybody...
Annoyingly enough in the cinema when the film finishes people murmur about Strangers having some kind of point. Ok, firstly this annoys me, does no-one have an imagination, secondly we aren't all scientists, not everything has to have a point.
In essence, Strangers isn't lying to us in any way. It's real, don't expect no happy ending because truth be told, your not going to get it. But then ask yourself, were you expecting there to be one?
6/10
