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User Reviews for: The Strangers: Chapter 1

Acoucalancha
4/10  8 months ago
>*"This is the story of one of the most brutal home invasions."*—No it wasn't!

*The Strangers* (2008) meets mediocrity. A remake that can't even remake the damn movie properly. Another variation of the original with some slightly alrered scenes and a few fairly new scenes. The new stuff is scarce though and it absolutely does not justify it's existence except for maybe the two sequels it will bring forth, which will hopefully finally be new territory.

An absolute lack of creativity all around, doesn't even try to improve on the original. The stuff they did change this time around makes no sense to me, they removed the iconic moments and kept stuff that mean nothing. The decision making is Oscar worthy dumb and the characters are so slooooow to react to what's happening around them that it kills the tension and the atmosphere. You can always see the scares coming a mile away and they're so repetitive, it's always a Stranger standing silently behind someone.

They removed every slight personality trait the 3 Strangers had in the previous movies, the two girls even have their hair covered (probably to do a surprise reveal in one of the sequels). Too much lighting in the woods. Felt very stretched out and it dragged despite the short runtime. The kills... what a lame way to kill people, no creativity and a waste of the R rating.
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