The Strangers: Chapter 1

In my opinion, this was some pretty sloppy work. The kills and the cinematography were both just eh. The movie was so dragged out that I could cut the parts that weren't important, and the movie wouldn't even be an hour long. So many stupid mistakes too. Yeah, let's get high so your boyfriend thinks you're hallucinating. Let's play the piano, while a record is on, while you're on FaceTime at full volume for the dead silence outside the house, so everyone in the whole state of Oregon hears you. I think I'll wait till Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 comes out to rent on my TV, because that was a waste of my afternoon....

I was super excited to see this movie as I loved the original and the trailers looked like it kept the creepy vibes of the original. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. I found the movie to be full of the cliche tacky things that a lot of scary movies have nowadays. For example, making a ton of unnecessary noise when you are hiding and trying to be quiet, using lights and lighters in dark spaces when you are trying to hide, yelling each others names as you run through the forest, just unnecessary and unrealistic things that nobody would do in real life and make you not care what happens to the protagonists. I felt like a number of things that happened in the movie just weren't nearly as effective as the original for that reason. Also, one of the reasons I loved the original was because you know absolutely nothing about the killers, where they come from, or what they are about. In this film, the entire town is full of creeps and it just really took away from the eeriness.

This reboot had a lot going for it. I unashamedly like Renny Harlin and think he's a competent director so was excited to see the start of a new trilogy.

The acting is a tad dire, and it's frustrating to see the characters just completely oblivious to their surroundings. I'm pretty sure you'd clock someone standing next to you in the shower.

And actually, the whole movie is just a retread of the original but with no redeeming changes. The ending had zero suspense and no stakes.

Saying this, I'm open to the trilogy as I feel like it'll tread into new territory (and I have some faith in Renny Harlin).

The Strangers Chapter 1 follows Maya and Ryan on their way out of town when their car breaks down, they stay at a cabin in the middle of the woods when they're attacked by strangers. This film is a reboot of the original and saying reboot is hard to say. This film is literally the same exact film as the original with very very tiny differences. This movie had so much potential and to make the same exact movie is so disappointing. Not to mention the characters were just so so stupid, the basic dumb horror elements are so overused and played out. Unfortunately this film plays them out and makes them worse. Now let me just take a minute and talk about the character Ryan, he is the worst character, if his rude attitude at the beginning of the movie didn't tell you that, he makes just the dumbest mistakes that even for a movie is ridiculous and that alone makes this movie terrible. It's really unfortunate because I really wanted to like this movie. Unfortunately The Strangers Chapter 1 is not worth the watch. Skip this and if you're going to watch this movie wait until streaming. Hopefully the next chapter is better.

There is 2 more of these, Yikes.

I'm not getting too much into this but it's a bit of a waste and a massive let down.

The movie sees a couple Maya and I think it was Ryan who break down and have to stay in a rental house. Masked creeps lurk the property and begin a vicious hunt and toy with the couple.

The movie I thought was a prequel is not, it seems to be a reboot and there is no need, using scenes exactly from the original just not executed as well.

I just don't get why they made the movie with 2 main characters that have no background to draw us in, the chemistry was fine but compared to the original 2 it seems less organic with the no origin route.

"Because we can" is a lame excuse, it gives no drive for me, and the original let this work because it was a movie that filled me with fear, while this was just loaded with jump-scares and I'm sick to death of horrors solely relying on that.

Silly movie, waste of time, watch the original instead because this is a generous 4/10

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