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THE STRANGERS ~ ????

(IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 out of 15,262 votes)

~Check Out The Trailer below~

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From the title, you can guess it’s a movie full of suspense and tension. Why, nobody really feels comfortable with ‘strangers’ being around, right? I’ll cut to the chase…

Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler, remember Armageddon?) & James Hoyt (Scott Speedman, the guy who played Michael, in Underworld) were on their way back from a friend’s wedding reception to Hoyt family’s summer home. From the look on our protagonists, obviously both were upset and troubled by something. Only later we found out that James was upset as Kristen turned down his proposal, for she wasn’t ready for marriage.

Of course, this was not the main problem they needed to deal with, tonight. About 4a.m., the couples were interrupted by a knock on the door, which actually marked the starting point of their worst nightmare. A girl was at their doorstep, looking for someone named Tamara. After explaining to her she got the wrong house, she left. Then, James went out to buy Kristen some cigarettes. During his absence, Kristen was greeted by the girl again, then more knocking and even loud banging all over the house. Kristen was alarmed and scared as she was all alone. She tried to call James on the phone, but the battery was dead. At exactly 25 minutes of the show, there’s a scene that actually gave me goose bumps all over!

Then the show continued with James came back home, questioning the terrified Kristen why she’s holding a knife & blood on her hands etc. Ok, so from this point, we knew there were three strangers with masks, basically guarding them from a distant, and apparently had easy access to their house without them knowing it. So, with their car been damaged, James and Kristen had no choice but trying to defend themselves with a rifle that James’ dad had left in the house. James did fire it, and even shot someone with it, but…. he accidentally killed his best friend who came to pick him up.

Sad and angry, he told Kristen to stay put, while he tried to go call for help with the old radio in the barn. It was not a good idea, and the 3 villains started to play more mean tricks on the couple. So games of hide and seek, shoot and run, loud bangs & screaming continued, until both of them been captured by the Strangers…then… perhaps you should guess the ending.

Actually the show reminded me a lot of Vacancy, a movie by Kate Beckinsale & Luke Wilson. It has similarities at the point where the couple was in disagreement, then were interrupted by unpleasant ‘strangers’ with knocking/banging on the door etc. This movie has a simple and common storyline, the only thing that really creeps me out, are the masks! Although I have to agree, at the earlier part of the story I think it was nicely done, the suspense, the unknowing intruders… However, it sort of got weaker in the middle of it, like James should’ve left with Kristen while they can and not loitering around for the villains whereabouts; James should’ve called for help first after re-discovering his cellphone in the house; and the reason for them being attacked was never clearly explained, except 1 explanation given by the stranger was “because you’re at home”, a little farfetched, don’t you think?

Overall, not too crazy about it. Still, Liv won the Spike TV’s 2008 Scream awards’ for Best actress in a horror movie or TV show in LA. Welcome Back to show-biz, Liv! Happy Halloween!

~ More Movies To Come…stay tuned ! ~

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