It’s been ten years since the previous film polarized
audiences but now, THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT (2018) seeks to do for modern audiences
what the original did a decade ago.
Unfortunately, it’s a little too late.
Dollface, Pin-Up Girl and the Man in the Mask (Emma Bellomy, Lea Enslin,
and Damian Maffei, respectfully) have hit the road after the previous massacre
to now menace a new family that have found their way to a summer trailer park
that’s currently off season. Their
latest victims are husband and wife Mike and Cindy (Martin Henderson and
Christina Hendricks, respectfully) and their two children Kinsey and Luke
(Bailee Madison and Lewis Pullman, respectfully).
Mike and Cindy are driving Kinsey to a new school after
being kicked out of the previous one as she has become unruly and uncontrollable. Kinsey’s attitude has finally tested the
resolve of the family for the very last time.
They plan to stop overnight at the trailer park which is run by other
family members but right off the back things are strange as no one greets them
upon their arrival and everything seems to be too quiet. When a strange girl shows up at their
doorstep looking for someone else their nightmare truly begins as they must
find a way to escape the trailer park when there is a killer at every turn watching
and waiting.
Written by Ben Ketai and directed by Johannes Roberts the
film retains the atmosphere and dread of the previous film even though the
location has been opened up to more than just a single house. What the film lacks are compelling characters
as all the characters either make bad decisions or (regularly) act like victims
instead of fighting back in a logical way.
Most of the film’s visual and suspenseful techniques are wasted on clichés
and things done better in other similar films.
Not a completely horrible film but you expect more from a
sequel that took a decade to finally see the light.
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