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"The Strangers: Prey at Night" is an unexpected anomaly—a sequel that both is better than and fixes the problems of its predecessor. It's a chilling and genuinely frightening horror film, driven by some solid performances and Roberts' command of atmosphere, location, and relentless pacing.
Mar 9, 2018 · The Strangers: Prey at Night may appeal to fans of the original who've been jonesing for a sequel, but its thin story and ironic embrace of genre tropes add up to a bloody step back. Read...
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By Witney Seibold
Updated: Mar 9, 2018 4:36 pm
Posted: Mar 8, 2018 8:01 am
Back in 2008, when Bryan Bertino's original The Strangers was released, horror was still in the midst of a wave of dank, hopeless nihilism. Throughout the 2000s – the time of so-called “torture porn” – protagonists in horror movies were frequently made to suffer deeply, often randomly and at the hands of cruel, faceless sadists whose cold bloodlust could never be properly sated. The ultimate dark purpose of the trio of masked home invaders in The Strangers was summed up in that film's tagline: “Because you were home.”
That same trio of masked assailants have now returned for Johannes Roberts' decade-later follow-up The Strangers: Prey at Night -- a taut, scary, and thankfully less dour sequel which focuses more on emotionally cathartic John Carpenter-like cinematic style, and much less on the mechanics of pain and the inevitability of moral emptiness. The thematic shift from a general pessimism to frightening, death-twinged thrills is a welcome step up.
Prey at Night adeptly introduces its central family of protagonists with a great deal of pained sympathy. Mom Cindy (Christina Hendricks) and dad Mike (Martin Henderson) are trying to make the best of a road trip wherein they are carting their bored son Luke (Lewis Pullman) and their ill-behaved teenage daughter Kinsey (Bailee Madison) to boarding school. Kinsey's particular transgressions are never revealed, but they're not terribly important; we have all the bubbling animosity we need to communicate that relationships are strained. We've seen snippy families and bickering couples in innumerable horror films of the past, so it's appreciated when the filmmakers bother to make them look and behave like real human beings, rather than fleshy chattel to be slaughtered.
And while the film does posses its share of admittedly cheap jump scares – those masks! – Prey at Night gets far more traction from its mood, its pacing, and its overall skillful filmmaking than many other horror films of its ilk.
Roberts previously directed the underseen 47 Meters Down, and, with Prey at Night, has proven himself an efficient, skilled genre director who is deeply capable of wringing scares and thrills out of the type aesthetic spareness that his idol was best known for. It's a rare skill, and it should be celebrated. This is Roberts' 11th feature film, and I feel that I may need to explore his back catalogue and more closely.
Skillfully made, spooky, stylish, and featuring some quite good character work, The Strangers: Prey at Night stands much taller than the 2008 original. The central killers are plenty scary, and some of the images on display would make John Carpenter proud.
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The Strangers: Prey at Night is a taut, scary, and thankfully less dour sequel than the 2008 original.
Witney Seibold
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Mar 8, 2018 · Ben Ketai. Stars. Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison, Lewis Pullman, Damian Maffei. Rating. Running Time. 1h 25m. Genre. Horror. Movie data powered by IMDb.com. Rated R for...
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