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May 17, 2024 · The Strangers: Chapter 1 ends on a brutal note, setting up the protagonist of the new trilogy while highlighting the franchise's themes.
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The Strangers: Chapter 1 is a 2024 American horror film that is the third film in The Strangers film series and the first installment of an intended relaunch in the form of a standalone trilogy. [a] It is directed by Renny Harlin, with a screenplay by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, from a story by Bryan Bertino, the director of the first film.
The Strangers: Chapter 1: Directed by Renny Harlin. With Ryan Bown, Matus Lajcak, Olivia Kreutzova, Letizia Fabbri. After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple is forced to spend the night in a remote cabin.
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Oct 30, 2023 · What is the plot of The Strangers: Chapter 1? Lionsgate "The Strangers: Chapter 1" will focus on Madelaine Petsch's Maya, a woman driving across the U.S. with her boyfriend, played by Froy...
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The Strangers: Chapter 1 is an upcoming American slasher / horror film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland. It stars Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez and Gabriel Basso. The film will be distributed by Lionsgate. It is a re-telling of the original film set to tell the origins of the Strangers.
It will release theatrically by Lionsgate on May 17th, 2024, with two more sequels expanding the story in new and unexpected ways in 2024.
Plot Outline
After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple (Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez) are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive in THE STRANGERS ― CHAPTER 1, the chilling first entry of this upcoming horror feature film series.
In-Depth Summary
The film starts in the woods, where a man named Jeff Morell is running frantically. He trips and tumbles downward before he is found by The Strangers – Scarecrow, Pin-Up Girl, and Dollface. Scarecrow takes his axe and swings down on Jeff. Elsewhere, a couple – Maya and Ryan – are driving across the country for their five year anniversary. They stop at a diner for lunch and meet another couple celebrating their anniversary. When asked why Ryan hasn’t proposed after five years, he dodges the question. Jeff’s missing poster is also seen on the wall. When Maya and Ryan try to leave, their car won’t start. They meet a mechanic, Rudy, who says he can have it fixed by the next day. A waitress named Shelly drives the couple to an AirBnB cabin in the woods for them to spend the night. Maya and Ryan get settled in and try to get intimate, but they hear a loud knocking at the door. Ryan opens the door and finds a woman hidden in the shadows, asking “Is Tamara here?” The couple tell her no, and she silently stands there before walking away. She then stands in the distance before disappearing. Ryan finds that he left his inhaler in the car, so he takes a motorcycle back to the shop to pick it up. When he gets there, Rudy almost attacks him, thinking he is a car thief. Ryan grabs the inhaler and then stops to get food for him and Maya. The locals invite him to have a beer, but he turns them down for now. Back at the cabin, Maya hears the loud knocking at the door, with the same woman coming to ask about “Tamara”. Maya also doesn’t notice somebody lurking behind her. She goes to play the piano, unaware that Scarecrow is sitting behind her. She walks into a room and is scared at the sight of Dollface’s mask. Maya runs into a closet and hides until Ryan returns to find her. After she tells him what she saw, he finds a clown painting that he thinks is what scared her. The two sit down to eat, but things quickly get horrific when they find that The Strangers hung a dead bird with its throat cut to drip blood down on Maya and Ryan. They go to lock the doors, only for Scarecrow to start trying to break the door down with an axe. The couple runs into the bedroom to barricade themselves, but Scarecrow breaks the door open too and only stares at Maya and Ryan before walking away. Maya and Ryan attempt to arm themselves and find a way to escape. While crawling under the floorspace, Maya accidentally jams a nail into her hand, and she has to stop herself from reacting in pain. After The Strangers move away, Ryan removes the nail and gets Maya out of there. Pin-Up Girl and Scarecrow attack Maya, but Ryan fends them off after finding a shotgun. The couple makes their way outside, trying to get the drop on the killers. Ryan hears footsteps on the front porch, and he fires the shotgun. He thinks he killed Scarecrow, but he actually killed Joe, the owner of the house. Ryan is horrified, but Maya tries to calm him before they try to get Joe’s car so they can flee. The Strangers start to attack again, with Scarecrow ramming the car with his truck. Ryan’s leg gets stuck, so he tells Maya to run away. He tries to fire the shotgun at Scarecrow, but he dodges it. Maya hides in the woods, where she tries to call the police for help. She manages to reach somebody before losing a signal. Maya then turns around and is horrified to find Jeff’s decayed corpse. When Maya tries to run, Dollface shows up and knocks her unconscious before dragging her away. Ryan ends up finding Pin-Up Girl and aims his shotgun at her. She starts to scream, laugh, and taunt him before Scarecrow shows up to knock Ryan out with the butt of his axe. Maya and Ryan wake up tied up next to each other. Knowing they are doomed, Ryan asks Maya to marry him, and she accepts. Scarecrow them stabs Ryan in the chest before kicking his chair over. Maya pleads and asks why they are doing this, and Pin-Up Girl responds, “Because you’re here.” She then gives Scarecrow her knife so he can stab Maya and kick her over too. They then flee the premises before the police arrive. Later, Maya wakes up in the hospital. When she gets up from her bed, Scarecrow is seen laying beside her.
•Madelaine Petsch as Maya
•Froy Gutierrez as Ryan
•Ema Horvath as Shelly
•Ben Cartwright as Rudy
Development
On September 13, 2022, it was revealed that Lionsgate was tapped in to standalone sequel the 2008 horror pic The Strangers, which entered production in Slovakia. Renny Harlin is directing the film, which will be the first in a trilogy, having locked in a deal to helm the subsequent pair. Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland wrote the franchise launcher, to be distributed worldwide by Lionsgate. Courtney Solomon is producing alongside Mark Canton, Christopher Milburn, Gary Raskin, Charlie Dombeck and Alastair Birlingham. Andrei Boncea, Dorothy Canton, and Roy Lee are exec producing, with Rafaella Biscayn, the Slovakia-based Frame Film SK, Johanna Harlin, Juan Garcia Peredo and Alberto Burgueno serving as co-producers.
Filming
Production took place in Bratislava, Slovakia with filming from May 2022 to October 2022.
•The website IsTamaraHome.net, which is a website dedicated to The Strangers franchise, revealed a lot of tidbits about the film, including cast and characters.
•Harlin admits that casting his two leads was a testing task: "Obviously Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman did a fantastic job in the original film and those were some big shoes to fill," says the director. "We looked long and hard for our scream queen. When I spoke with Madelaine I just knew that she was an exceptional person, exceptional actor, and that's what it took to play this part. In the same way, after looking long and hard, we found Froy Gutierrez, who is another wonderful young actor. We wanted a couple who feel natural and relaxed together. Their relationship, maybe it's not identical to the relationship in the original film, but it's something that feels very natural and very real, and that to me was the key to this movie and this trilogy. It's the realism."
•The way the director tells it, a similar amount of effort was put into recreating the masks worn by the killers in the original movie as into picking the cast: "We felt it was central to the movie that the masks are the same," says Harlin. "The masks in The Strangers are not like the Batsuit or something that evolves over years. To us, the Strangers are the Strangers, and I, as an audience member, wanted to see them just the way they were in the original film. Is there a place where you can find these masks? No. It was a process of studying what they were like, how were they made, how they fit on the actors' faces, how [to] create that same impression. It was one of the real challenges of the movie."
•Harlin shot all three films simultaneously last year in Slovakia. The director says the production was, "the challenge of a lifetime, but I also really embraced it. On a Monday morning, I could be shooting the second chapter, and Monday afternoon I could be shooting the first chapter, and Tuesday morning I could be shooting the third chapter. it was incredibly demanding for the actors, for the continuity in terms of the make-up and wardrobe, and for my director of photography, because we wanted to create a visual language that develops so that the movies get bigger, more epic, as we go [on]. It just kept all of our juices pumping all the time."
•Renny Harlin, director of the next three films of The Strangers franchise, is teasing that the trilogy opens up a whole new universe that could potentially lead to more installments in the future.
•Said Harlin, “I definitely see more movies and it’s almost like – that’s why I don’t even call it a trilogy – I call it the first three movies of the Strangers Universe,” Harlin said in an interview with ComicBook. “And the way the third movie ends, if people thought that the original movie ended in a titillating way because Liv Tyler sort of gasps in the end of that. And you question, like, ‘Did she live, what happened?’ If you thought that was thought-provoking, I think that when the third movie ends, you are like, ‘Oh my God, what’s, what’s gonna happen now?'”
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