The Strangers
2008
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Aug 21, 2023 · The first entry was an original screenplay, but, according to Bertino, it was inspired by a childhood experience. And if you ask true-crime aficionados, the premise bears a striking resemblance...
Nov 29, 2023 · The true story behind the film “The Strangers” is an incident from writer and director Bryan Bertino’s childhood, when someone knocked on the door of Bertino’s home while his parents were away. His little sister answered, and the person asked for someone who didn’t live at the house.
Jun 8, 2023 · Features. The Strangers: A Cult Horror Inspired by the Director’s Own Brush with Evil. Fifteen years after The Strangers followed you home from the cinema, we chat with director Bryan Bertino...
Mar 9, 2024 · According to the filmmaker, the idea of strangers going around and knocking on people’s doors was born from a similar incident in his childhood, where “some people [were] asking for somebody that didn’t live there:” "That part of the story came to me from a childhood memory. As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere.
Bryan Bertino wrote and directed The Strangers. He said he wrote the story based on an experience he had in childhood where a stranger came to the door while his parents were out and asked for someone who didn’t live there. He believes the strangers were casing the neighborhood, as several homes were burgled later on.
According to production notes and subsequent interviews, the film was inspired by true events from Bertino's childhood: Bertino explains: As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it.
Bryan Bertino didn’t want to bring any sympathy to the masked intruders in The Strangers, and by combining his childhood memory with the notorious killing spree that gave a bleak start to the ...
