Review of The Strangers (2008) by Ryan S — 21 Oct 2013

'The Strangers' is one of the most underrated horror films I have ever seen. Its also one of the scariest. The reason this film really stands out to me is because from what I remember, it was one of the first horror films that stayed with me for an extremely long period of time. Although most of the scares are jump scares, they are very effective. The film starts out very slow, using ambient noises to scare the audience. The middle portion really is where the movie shines. The three masked 'strangers' are seen more in the final act, and usually in horror movies when the main antagonist (or antagonists) are shown, the scare factor goes down, but not in The Strangers. The main part from the movie and is seen in some of the trailers that disturbed me the most were just a couple lines of dialogue. "Why are you doing this to us?".

"Because you were home." This is my type of horror movie. Even though the films main storyline is not terribly original, the exposition is where the film really shines. One of my favorite horror films. 5/5.