The Strangers

Today's daily dose of horror was the home invasion film The Strangers. Liv Tyler, who is having problems with her husband, finds their home being attacked in the middle of the night by a trio of masked strangers (hey, movie title!). The movie proceeds, in typical fashion, by having the couple ineptly try to escape their attackers. Chaos ensues. 

Eh... I don't have much to say about this movie. It's pretty much nothing you haven't seen before and ends up being pretty typical slasher, home invasion faire. The movie does really enjoy spinning it's wheels though in apparent interest of a whole cat-and-mouse thing taken to the extreme. So much so, in fact, that I literally yelled several times, "SOMETHING HAPPEN" and was wildly disappointed each time. There didn't seem to be enough plot here to fill the movie as most of it is just Liv Tyler and her husband running around in circles screaming and being generally pretty bad at, ya know, staying alive.

Oh, and Dennis Reynolds shows up for about 2 and a half minutes before being shot in the head, so that was cool, I guess. 

Totally missed opportunity not making him the killer. That would have made this the perfect compliment to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia conspiracy theories. Yes. Dennis is a serial killer. We all know it. Get on board.

Ultimately, The Strangers is just wholly forgettable and a failed exercise in atmosphere. The masked creepers toying with their victims trope has been done far more effectively and here just feels boring, uninspired, and overly drawn out for, like, atmosphere's sake or something? Nothing really happens, and not in a good The House of the Devil way. 

4/10 yawns