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List Price: $29.98
Our Price: $10.05
Your Save: $ 19.93 ( 66% )
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025193330222
Format: AC-3
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-10-21
Running Time: 174
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Summary: Suspenseful Terror Film!
Comment: I was quite surprised to see really negative reviews of this film. Yes, "The Strangers" does make use of familiar plot devices common to several horror or terror films. Plot devices, of course, are necessary to movies, plays, and opera. There is an answer as to why the cell phones don't work: if they did, 911 would have been called with a SWAT team swooping in, and the movie would have been over in 20 minutes! It's not about the devices, it's about execution around the devices. This film really executes.
I found "The Strangers" to be highly suspenseful. This is a terror film, as opposed to a standard horror film. The gore is kept to a minimum, so if you are looking for on-camera decapitations and the like, this is not your film. If you are looking for edge-of-your-seat suspense, you will love it. Like other reviewers, I won't spoil this movie for you by discussing the plot.
I knocked off one star for one issue. In one scene, Kristen falls in a ditch and supposedly sprains her ankle. It's bad enough that she has to crawl. In the next scene, she is walking fine. In a subsequent scene, she is back to the limp. I was surprised to see this when the attention to detail was otherwise so sharp.
Director Brian Bertino got the most of the set, the lighting, sound effects, and his principal actors Liv Tyler (Kristen) and Scott Speedman (James). This is a very scary movie, where the victims are trapped no matter which way they turn. You find yourself hoping against hope for an escape, even though you know the futility of the situation.
Highly recommended.
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Summary: The ways of evil
Comment: Let it not be said that fiction is scarier than truth. "The Strangers" shows the viewer what evil is in its purest form--inexplicable, cold, merciless. We are told at the beginning that this is a true story, thus truth is far, far more terrifying than fiction. Because it is true.
James had set up a bower of love to take his beloved Kristen after he proposed. Things went wrong and the bower became a cold place, almost embarrassing in its intended intimacy. Now reread the previous sentence, with the knowledge that a blood bath will take place during the early hours of the morning.
Three strangers terrorize the young couple in one way after the other, extemporaneously making up their next act of terror based on the actions and reactions of the couple. At one point Liv asked, "Why us?" The answer: "You're at home." The setting was a vacation home at the lake.
Evil is cold and merciless and inexplicable. Then it moves on to kill again and again and again. Until it is caught. But we don't know that, not in this story, not in truth and not in the film.
Not for the squeamish. In fact, I wish I hadn't seen it. I rated four stars because the film has a sense of documentary, even of being right there with the characters. Liv Tyler's sense of horror is palpable and our sense of inescapable, inevitable death is totally visceral.
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Summary: An eerie but slow film
Comment: The Strangers is very low-key, it doesn't take speed or any big dramatic measures - instead it very slowly builds to the ending, which is surprisingly lacking in surprises. Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman don't dazzle in their roles, but I'm also sure they're not the worst choices for their parts.
The Strangers is not a great exciting slasher bloodbath, or even an innovative horror-thriller, but it is a pretty eerie and ambiguous film, and while its not the best to come out in some time, it's a pretty decent experience unless you're looking for extreme gore or a very rapid pace. If you can't sit still for an hour without labeling it "boring", go look elsewhere.
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Summary: Noises Within, Noises Without
Comment: There are a few flaws in this otherwise successful film that is in fact as frightening as the trailer makes it out to be. Not being one for the constant barrage of thriller films (the 'Saw' Series, the endless vampire variations, 'I know what you did...', etc) this viewer hesitantly watched what could have been yet another exercise in blood and gore. But surprise! The story (based on a true incident in 2005 as outlined by an off camera narrator discussing the number of violent deaths in America each year before the film opens) is tight, credible, and deals more with the emotion of terror of the unknown than images of gore. Kudos to writer/director Bryan Bertino for finding the core of the macabre. And it is true!
James Hoyt (Scott Speedman) is driving his girlfriend Kristen MacKay (Liv Tyler) to the isolated summer home in the woods that James and his best friend Mike (Glenn Howerton) had earlier decorated with rose petals, candles and champagne in preparation for what was supposed to be a celebration of a marriage proposal. Sadness prevails in the car as Kristen has turned James' proposal down. They quietly enter the decorated house, and almost immediately begin to hear sounds outside and a door knock by a young girl apparently looking for a person not living in this house. Kristen asks James to go out and get her cigarettes and the creepy action begins. Three strangers each in masks terrify Kristen with noises, secretly entering the house, and creating a tense atmosphere until James returns. At this point the story becomes an almost unbearable sequence of events: it is clear the strangers are out to murder James and Kristen. Bound and beaten by the three strangers Kristen asks 'Why us? Why do you want to kill us?' and the simple answer from of the strangers is 'Because you're home'. The ending of the film could have been better handled by someone telling us the results of the night - the follow up to this true story. But instead Bertino elects to keep the level of terror high.
Peter Sova (cinematographer) finds the right amount of shadow and dark to keep us guessing and the musical score by tomandandy is pitch perfect. This is a fine little film, but be prepared to jump in a few spots...and keep the lights on! Grady Harp, November 08
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Summary: SCARY AS HELLZ
Comment: If you are looking to be scared to death, by all means pick this DVD up. Those who tell you not to watch this at night alone are not kidding, it's one of the most disurbing movies I have ever seen. First of all the cut up sacks on the heads of the Strangers is spookeeyyyy, really the site of them give you like a viseral scare. The movie has holes yes, I mean it's a horror film, they all do, I mean, right?..but really this movie is one that will give you nightmares, sort of like watching, the little girl crawl out of the TV in, The Ring, or the zombies in 28 weeks later, it's the way it's filmed and edited that makes this a real fright. Highly Recomended if you're into this sort of thing, personally, after seeing this, im good on horror films for a while.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Inspired by true events, this heart pounding, nail-biting frightener mercilessly explores our most universal fears, where simply opening the door to a stranger leads to a grueling night of terror one could never imagine. Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman star in this relentless suspense thriller that will keep you up at night and make you never want to answer the door again!
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