Review of The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) by Snodog — 26 Dec 2021

This has got to be the laziest, brain dead, idiotic "horror" movie I have ever had the displeasure of experiencing. I'm surprised the main characters lived long enough to make it to these events as they are so stupid, you would have expected them to forget how to breathe long before.

Not only do they make decisions no rational human would make, they essentially stand there and wait to be killed. There is nothing scary about the antagonists other than they seem to be able to teleport and mystically sense where the protagonists are at all times.

At one point the protagonists have a gun... A GUN!.. and their persuers have only used knives or sharp objects. So... the movie is over right? They have an extreme tactical advantage over their opponent.

Surely there is no possible way they can combat a gun with a few knives. Except, the gun dissappears a few scenes later! It's never fired, despite having one of the people who murdered their mother and father dead to rights in point blank range, it's never shown to be taken or dropped or even holstered.

It's just magically gone so the rest of the movie can happen. The creators of this film believe that if someone's throat is slit, they die immediately. Do they believe that your heart is in your throat? You have to bleed to death! Many people have survived getting their throats slit.

This movie was made by braindead people for braindead people. You have to be dumber than a rock to think this movie is plausible in any reality. People are not dumb enough to just sit there while a psychopath stabs you.

Arms are a thing, and it's instinct to move them in front of things that could hurt you. Yes, the people in this movie had to fight their instincts in order to be complacent in their own murder! Watching stupid people make decisions bound to lead directly to their deaths is not scary, or fun to watch in any way.

This "movie" is garbage through and through.