After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive
Usually...i get excited over any scary/horror/thriller movie preview. Btu the more i see and read abotu this, and the fact that live tyler is in it..makes me think this might be legit. Im really excited to see it.
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User Comments (Comment on this title) 177 out of 234 people found the following comment useful:- One of the best suspense movies ever, 16 November 2007
Author: dannyg4 from United States *** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Saw the screening for this film and it was truly terrifying. The whole audience was screaming at parts and there are several scenes that make you jump. The tension buildup during the movie is incredible. Some of the scenes are disturbing but not overly gory. Liv Tyler does a convincing job of making you feel the fright and a lot of the acting is non-verbal. Scott Speedman also does an excellent and believable job. With todays crazy headlines, this is the kind of movie that you can actually imagine happening somewhere in this country in real life. Trust me, at the end of this movie you will be double checking the locks on your doors and windows.
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no way im the only one interested in this movie...
The Strangers is a 2008 horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino and starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman. The film is based on real life events that happened on April 11th, 1981 in Keddie, California which became known as the Keddie cabin murders ( http://www.cabin28.com). The film follows a couple who are attacked and terrorized by three masked intruders in their remote vacation home
On April 11th, 1981, in a small resort cabin nestled in the Hills of northern California, a triple murder took place so horrific it still haunts the area to this day.
That morning around 9:00a.m., Sheila Sharp, who had stayed the night at a neighbor’s house not more than 15 feet away, walked through her front door, not knowing what she was about to see would change her life forever. Directly inside, on the floor, were her 16 year old brother, John Sharp, and his 17 year old friend, Dana Wingate. Both were bound hand and foot, stabbed, and hammered to death. There was blood on every surface of the cabin. On the blood-soaked couch was her mother, Sue Sharp, also murdered in the same brutal fashion. Amazingly, her 2 younger brothers and a friend were in a back bedroom, untouched. However, her younger sister, Tina, was missing.
The walls had cuts on them, the furniture was busted up, and the victims were beaten. However, no one seemed to hear anything that night. The case quickly grew cold, and rumors of the town being haunted hurt the community so deeply it eventually became a ghost town, with only a hand full of residence living there today.
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Yeah I'm waiting to see what some actual responses are on this one before I decide if I'll see it or not.
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Not that it effects the movie, but there is no documented evidence of the "real events" it's supposed to be based on. I mean, there's the Keddy cabin thing, but that's a bit away from what this movie is presenting.
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Well here's the thing. If this movie is suppose to be (if even loosely) based on some true story of a brutal bizarre suburban family murder.... errm, don't that sorta give away the ending... ?
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Well here's the thing. If this movie is suppose to be (if even loosely) based on some true story of a brutal bizarre suburban family murder.... errm, don't that sorta give away the ending... ?
that didnt stop Titanic from being the biggest movie in the world though....
I really doubt this is based that much on the Kittie Cabin murders. I'm thinking the writer took some initial inspiration from the murders and went his own way. Nothing in the previews fits in with the actual events, so it's probably "based on" the Kittie Cabion story in the same way that TCM was "based on" Ed Gein.
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Do we have any reviews from reputable sources yet? Preferably a genre site?
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Do we have any reviews from reputable sources yet? Preferably a genre site?
The guy from The Village Voice gave it a good review (although you wouldn't think so given the headline ):
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The Strangers: Old-School Spooker Too bad it doesn't make any sense by ED GONZALEZ May 27th, 2008 12:00 AM
Suggesting an American remake of David Moreau and Xavier Palud's Them, The Strangers is practically an abstraction: an old-school spooker spun from the blood splatter on a wall, a nearby record player scratching an oldie, a CB radio in the garage, a creaky swing set in the backyard. First-time helmer Bryan Bertino is beholden to genre quota, skidding the relationship of pretty young couple Kristen and James (played by Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman) before subjecting them to an after-dark home invasion. But he offers no profound rationale for why she refuses his marriage proposal; like the shadowy stranger that comes knocking at their door (eerily asking, "Is Tamara home?"), it's something that just happens. What's up with the bemasked ghoulies of the film's title? Why all the door-slamming? Who's Tamara!?! Plying an old-school artistry that begins with a creepy montage of bumblefuck houses and holds up almost without fail until the strangers offer a creepy non-justification for their transgressions, analog-man Bertino teases with the unknown until he's left no pimple ungoosed. Sometimes avoiding the synapse-raping bad habits of splat packers Eli Roth and Alexandre Aja is its own reward; doing so without also submitting to Michael Haneke–style hand-slapping is nearly monumental.
That's about the only major outlet RT has listed as having reviewed it so far.
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