Review of The Strangers (1998) by Alex V — 10 Jun 2013

By-the-numbers home invasion flick does good setting up the characters and situation before running headlong into the land of no ideas. There's only so many times a masked figure can sneak into or vanish from frame until it stops being eerie. The film is also plagued by moments when our terrorized heroes will forgo a perfectly logical plan for an actively bad one. Like splitting up. Or walking slowly through the middle of large rooms, ensuring the killers have ample opportunity to sneak up on them. There's also the fact that it's not like these people can't just leave the house. They're not stranded in the wilderness or anything. Nice cinematography. Short on scares. Even shorter on logic.

--4.0/10--.