Roberts builds this sequence so that it feels almost De Palma-esque, or at least skirting that stylized territory. The old Bonnie Tyler hit “Total Eclipse of the Heart” starts to play on the soundtrack, and Luke stands up for himself against a man in a mask, who comes swinging at him with an axe. Suddenly he stumbles into a pool area, and a bunch of electric lights shaped like trees get switched on. Luke has defended his sister but has been unable to bring himself to use a gun.
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The family is menaced unexcitingly until Roberts decides to make this movie into 1980s Power Ballad Horror. “The Strangers: Prey at Night” is the sort of modern horror movie that shows us a shot of smashed cell phones as a kind of ultimate violation. They discover the word “Hello” written many times in red all over a window in the trailer park, and a girl keeps coming to the door of their own trailer to ask, “Is Tamara here?” Once Luke and Kinsey discover the dead bodies of the older couple from the first scene - which turn out to be the remains of the relatives they were visiting - things escalate predictably as the family are all assailed by masked slashers.Īlso Read: Cinestate Acquires Horror Magazine 'Fangoria'
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Roberts indulges in some slow zooms as the family set themselves up in a trailer for the night, and we see the bond between Luke and Kinsey, who wears a Ramones shirt but barely knows how to smoke cigarettes. Kinsey feels that her parents favor her older brother Luke (Lewis Pullman, “Battle of the Sexes”), and so tensions simmer as they all pile into a car to visit relatives. Angst-filled teenager Kinsey (Bailee Madison) has been behaving badly, and so her parents Cindy (Christina Hendricks) and Mike (Martin Henderson, “Grey’s Anatomy”) are sending her away to a boarding school, even though they can’t afford it. The film then takes pains to set up a family story with characters that we might care about. (The song stops on the line, “You know life is cruel,” just so we don’t miss the point.) An older woman goes to see what the noise is outside, and it is made clear she is not long for this world.Īlso Read: Elizabeth Banks Joins Untitled Horror Film Produced By James Gunn We hear a pop song on the soundtrack, and a car with three passengers inside drives up to a trailer. “The Strangers: Prey at Night” begins with the title “Based on true events,” which invites a derisive chuckle from wised-up horror audiences. (He has said that he was inspired by coverage of the Manson Family murders.) “The Strangers” was stranded somewhere between the theoretical pretensions of Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games” and the lower grade horror clichés.
The first film had Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman terrorized by masked assailants at an isolated summer home in the country, and Bertino highlighted the randomness of their ordeal. Bertino is a co-writer this time (with Ben Ketai) for director Johannes Roberts (“47 Meters Down”), who starts out this second film rather slowly but eventually takes some advantage of his opportunity here. Writer-director Bryan Bertino’s thriller “The Strangers” premiered in 2008, and it has taken 10 years to get this sequel, subtitled “Prey at Night,” on screen.
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