The mother (Hendricks) sympathizes with this rebellion, and both she and her husband (Henderson) take pains to show their love to their daughter in spite of the daughter’s transgressions.Īnd the son (Pullman). She doesn’t inhale, though, because it is really just a show. The daughter (Madison) is being shipped off to boarding school because of her bad behavior. Prey at Night begins with a setup that gives us superficial backstory on the family.
But in trying to counter its predecessor with a unique twist, it actually bends back towards tired slasher conventions. Without divulging too many spoilers, this sequel attempts to have the same grim nihilism. But at least in the first Strangers film the brutal nihilism is used to upend certain conventions of the slasher genre, particularly with that film’s end result.
This is not to disparage the films, if that is what you are after in a horror picture. The masked figures play tricks on the family before beginning to kill them off.īoth Strangers films exercise a sadistic level of nihilism to provide their entertainment. The victims, in this case a nuclear family of four (Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison, and Lewis Pullman), are stalked quietly and forebodingly by three masked figures. Much of Prey at Night is a rehash of the first film. It is a film that both relies on the weight of its predecessor to get people to see it and expects us to ignore that first film when it attempts the same template. Now, 10 years later, we are granted with another high concept sequel, The Strangers: Prey at Night. eerie masks and a crude smiley face logo). The Strangers: Prey at Night hits theaters on March 9, 2017.The 2008 horror film The Strangers is, at its essence, a ripoff of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games with a high concept marketing angle (i.e. Also all your favorite scary-ass masks are back! (Dollface! Pin-Up Girl! Man in the Mask! All your non- Purge mask faves.) “Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the family’s every limit as they struggle to survive.”Ĥ7 Meters Down director Johannes Roberts takes the reins from original director Bryan Bertino for the sequel which stars Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, and Martin Henderson. “A family’s road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted,” reads the early studio synopsis of the film. The important thing is that the early look is creepy as hell complete with Tiffany‘s ’80s mall-banger “I Think We’re Alone Now” terrorizing victims throughout. Also like the original, Prey at Night claims to be based on a true story, although the last time it was more of a grab bag of true stories, so grain of salt and all that. Just like the last go-around, The Strangers: Prey at Night (aww, that subtitle is cute) sells us on masked strangers terrorizing folks that would really, really, really, really like to not be murdered.
The home invasion thrills, chills ‘n’ disturbing kills cult horror hit The Strangers hasn’t exactly hit sequel status at a breakneck pace, but the much murmured about second installment in this would-be franchise has confirmed its existence with the arrival of its first teaser trailer.
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