The Strangers: Chapter 1
Summary
Best recognise for drop a line and engineer the 2008 sleeper hitThe Strangers , filmmaker Bryan Bertino also made one of the best horror movies of the 2020s — and hardly anyone see to it it . With the release of the badly receivedThe stranger : Chapter 1 , the first installment of an intended relaunch of the cult classical franchise , horror devotee are likely bet for a more compelling lookout man . part ground on atrue account from Bertino ’s childhood , The Strangersis a truly scarey psychological repulsion film that revolve about on a distraught duad , Kristen McKay ( Liv Tyler ) and James Hoyt ( Scott Speedman ) .
After Kristen disdain James ' man and wife marriage proposal , the twain weather an clumsy night in a remote summertime home . However , the couple ’s uncomfortable evening takes a terrifying turn when three block out alien invade their house . The wild intruders — Dollface , Man in the Mask , and Pin - Up miss — bring out inThe Strangers ' endingthat the home invasion is random : hauntingly , the truth is that Kristen and James were targeted merely because they were there . WhileThe Strangersis Bertino ’s most acclaimed and enduring film , the author - director has also created several other stomach - out repulsion film , including one released in 2020 .
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When it comes toranking every Bryan Bertino movie , The Strangerscomes out on top , and onlyThe Dark and the Wickedgives the 2008 classic a running game for its money . After pen the corner - authority bang — The Strangersmade a astounding $ 82.4 million against its $ 9 million budget — Bertino wrote and directed horror film like 2014’sMockingbirdand 2016’sThe Monster . The film producer also bring forth a few well - received scares , includingThe Blackcoat ’s girl , a supernatural psychological revulsion film starring Emma Roberts , Kiernan Shipka , and Lucy Boynton , and the Yvonne Strahovski - starring slasherHe ’s Out There .
… the writer - theatre director establish a return to form with The Dark and the Wicked .
In 2018 , a whopping tenner after his original film , Bertino returned toThe Strangersfranchise . Although he did n’t directThe Strangers : Prey at Night , Bertino wrote and executive produced the continuation . Unfortunately , the secondStrangersflick was n’t as successful or well - received as the first field day , but , two years later , the writer - director receive a retort to make withThe Dark and the Wicked . Starring Marin Ireland as Louise and Michael Abbott Jr. as Michael , The Dark and the Wickedfollows two siblings as they confront a demonic entity at their family farm — a premise that leverages Bertino ’s strengths .
The new film in the psychological repulsion serial is the first of three new The Strangers motion-picture show come out in 2024 , with the first one fare in May .
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As the siblings deal with the hellish entity taking hold of their homestead , they also sail the radioactive dust of their mother ’s last by self-annihilation as well as their ailing father . One of themost underrated repugnance movies of 2020,The Dark and the Wickedis a Graeco-Roman folk - repulsion film that tackle its isolated context . Packed with cringe dread , The Dark and the Wickedkeeps its focus on an unsettling , not - quite - right atmosphere . Although Bertino does n’t reinvent the obsessed house musical genre , he does create an implausibly effective — and , at times , downright scary — psychological horror film .
A subtle but significant element of The Strangers : Chapter 1 makes it impossible to work as a prequel to the original 2008 The Strangers .
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GivenThe Dark and the Wicked ’s twisty conclusion , it ’s a must - see even for the most well - versed horror enthusiasts . unluckily , Bertino ’s 2020 hit is n’t very wide available . Several month after its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival , The Dark and the Wickedlanded with AMC Networks ' siblings RLJE Films and Shudder — AMC ’s repulsion - specific streaming platform . As of 2024,The Dark and the Wickedstill streams alone on Shudder , which means would - be viewers need to ratify up for the platform so as to check out Bryan Bertino ’s underrated gemstone .
The Dark and the Wickedstreams exclusively on Shudder .
The first celluloid in the horror series , The Strangers , follows an unsuspicious distich on vacation who rule themselves at the mercifulness of a mathematical group of murderers who seek to physically and psychologically torture them . After a serial publication of inauspicious events that lead the couple to commit an inadvertent crime , they find themselves fighting for survival against three mask trespasser that pick out to attack them " because they were home . "
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The first film in the horror series, The Strangers, follows an unsuspecting couple on vacation who find themselves at the mercy of a group of murderers who seek to physically and psychologically torture them. After a series of unfortunate events that lead the couple to commit an accidental crime, they find themselves fighting for survival against three masked intruders that chose to attack them “because they were home."
The first film in the horror series, The Strangers, follows an unsuspecting couple on vacation who find themselves at the mercy of a group of murderers who seek to physically and psychologically torture them. After a series of unfortunate events that lead the couple to commit an accidental crime, they find themselves fighting for survival against three masked intruders that chose to attack them “because they were home."
