The Strangers: Chapter One (of three! This year!)

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Monterey Jack
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The Strangers: Chapter One (of three! This year!)

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What a weird choice to make into a new trilogy of horror (especially as the last one came out six years ago, and the first a decade before that), but it's nice to see Renny Harlin back on the big screen after being stuck in VOD hell for most of the last twenty years. Time to kick off the Rennyaissance...! :lol: With this and the Costner western, it seems like the new franchise pattern is going to be shooting them all at once, and releasing them within a few months of each other. Which isn't bad, if the costs are kept reasonable.

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Re: The Strangers: Chapter One (of three! This year!)

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I like Harlin but I have no interest, in any way, shape or form, for this movie or its two sequels and their subject matter. Home invasion slashers...easy pass for me. Seems like a total creative waste of time for him, but at this stage I'm sure it's about working more than anything, even if you're scraping the bottom of the barrel genre wise.

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Re: The Strangers: Chapter One (of three! This year!)

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3/10

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Utter trash, a complete Xerox of the 2008 original completely shorn of tension, surprise and style. What the hell happened to Harlin?! Back in the 80s and 90s, his films were slick and gorgeous, but this looks like a typically wan shot-in-Bulgaria horror flick that went straight-to-Rebox 15 years ago, murky, underlit and an eyesore. :( And literally ending on a "TO BE CONTINUED..." title card... :lol:

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Hahaha :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Nothing like To Be Continued to get the audience to turn against you!!

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