Review of The Strangers (2008) by Cole C — 07 Jul 2013

Why are you doing this? Because your home!

This review of The Strangers (2008) was written by Cole C on 07 Jul 2013.

The Strangers has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Kami B (76) on 04 Jun 2017

This was masterfully done. Bryan Bertino wrote a great script full of suspense. The atmosphere was full on creepy and old school…

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By Cameronhalmans (37) on 03 Oct 2018

The Strangers is a peculiar film in the sense that it succeeds in tone, setting, and tense direction, but completely fails to write characters…

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By Imthenoob (1,101) on 28 Nov 2017

The performances were decent, The characters were relatable and the premise was interesting but not entirely original…

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By Elizabeth L (270) on 27 Nov 2017

If you don't like this movie, that's fine. But personally, I thought it was great…

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By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

Sometimes evil happens without explanation. Rarely is it shown in such plain, quiet, horrifying fashion. Don't watch this alone…

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By Damian S (504) on 08 Jun 2018

Repetitiva , un film mas de terror slasher basada en echos reales que se queda sin fuerza , no tiene justificacion no muestra nada distinto…

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By Jacob L (312) on 31 Mar 2018

I got bored by like the first 5 minutes of watching. The scares weren't very scary, and the movie was just a mess…

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By Fernando H (146) on 26 Mar 2018

Slow but in a good way, this movie delivers nice scares but lacks a bit of action and motive to be (but I guess that's the point right?)…

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By Annbd (197) on 28 Apr 2019

Scary on moments, without absolute no point. Even if it was super scary, it should make also sense and should have explanations, reasons and so on…

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By Seroj (254) on 11 Apr 2019

7.9? What!? This movie was one of the worst, I have ever seen! It wasn't scary even a bit…

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