Review of The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) by Cameronhalmans — 02 Oct 2018

The Strangers: Prey at Night is the worst movie I've seen so far this year and that's including Summer of 84. With atrocious character writing, worse than the first strangers film, this movie has no idea who to focus on.

You don't really get a glimpse as to who the main character is really at all. Not to mention, the characters aren't interesting in the slightest. The film gives you nothing to cheer for. The family drama in the first 20 minutes is rushed and forced upon the audience and doesn't pan out well throughout the film.

The first strangers film was memorable for its suspense, yes the character writing in that film was bad as well, but at least I was on the edge of my seat throughout certain scenes in that film. In Prey at Night, there's no suspense.

Absolutely zero elements of horror. It's like stalker porn on crack. I'm not exactly sure why there's an 80's style score in this film either. Prey at Night adds nothing new. Its ideas are dull and dry and it produces honestly the worst ending to a film I think I've ever seen.

I would have liked to see some connection to the first film, or at least give us some sort of motive for the actions of the killers. At least make the film of interest and let us know about the attackers, but we get none of that.

They just kill because "why not" and to me that's lazy writing and extremely boring to watch. The one redeeming quality to this film was the 5 minutes pool scene, that's it. The rest is utter nonsense.