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The Brock’s Horror Film Pick #18: The Strangers

Time to do a newer film here called, “The Strangers”, starring Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler (Steven Tyler’s daughter). The film is about a couple coming back from a wedding reception, and they stay in an isolated vacation home. Of course, they get visitors by 3 masked people. Sure enough, they aren’t very nice people and violent. What I loved about the film, is that it has no gore. It concentrates on the scare, and that’s what the film does the best job at. Who ever the writer is, must know how to scare people ’cause it was a pretty freaky as hell movie. I was pretty impressed with the film, and plan on re-watching it sometime before or on the day of Halloween. I plan to start my horror movie marathon soon. Maybe this weekend.

Kev

Report: “Strangers” sequel is greenlighted, and will start filming this fall…

The sequel to the horror film, “The Strangers”, that starred Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman, has been greenlighted and will start filming this Fall, as soon as possible. Laurent Briet, is in talks to direct. There is no official word on whether or not Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman will return to the sequel but the story and plot ideas are being kept underwraps for now.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006434.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Some people didn’t like “The Strangers”, but I thought it was one of the best new horror films in a long while. Looking forward to the sequel. I’ll see it in the theater, depending on how the trailer is.

Kev

Thought: True horror films finally made it’s return? “Quarantine” and “The Strangers” are two of the most scariest horror films in a long time!!

Horror films are supposed to be real scary. Not to be entertaining popcorn flicks like your typical teen slasher films. Those teen slasher films like “Scream”, “Halloween”, “Friday the 13th”, etc…are not scary at all in my opinion, they are just here for popcorn entertainment, so in reality, I don’t really call those films true horror films.

True horror films that are real scary are films like: “The Omen”, “The Exorcist”, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, “Amityville Horror”, “Rosemary’s Baby”, “Psycho”, etc. Films that are supposed to scare the shit out of you and not being able to sleep at night after watching the films.

True horror films are starting to make a comeback. With films like “Quarantine” and “The Strangers”, I think those two films are the most creepiest films I’ve seen in many years.

“Quarantine” is a zombie film, yes, but it’s a zombie film that it almost seems real, a film that almost seems like real life. That’s what makes that film so scary. Not only that, I think the ending to that film is the most scariest ever.

I don’t want to spoil the ending but I’ll talk about little bits of it, the leading woman that plays in the movie, finds this room to try to escape the place. It is dark, and the video camera has a night vision light on where they can see in the dark, which makes the screen turns green as a night vision kind of thing.

The woman and camera man are both in the room alone hiding ’cause there’s one zombie walking around trying to find ’em. The woman is trying to cover her mouth so she tries not to scream, so the zombie wouldn’t hear her. There is no music playing in this scene. Just complete silence in that scene as the zombie is walking around trying to hunt them down. Of course, the trailer of the “Quarantine” film kind of gave away the ending, which I hate it when trailers do that, but you get the idea.

“The Strangers”, is another great horror film that I absolutely loved, it stars Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman. About a young couple staying at a friends cabin for a vacation trip, the guy proposes marriage to his longtime girlfriend, but she says “no” to his marriage proposal, of course he is upset the rest of the night and stays up all night, then he goes out for a drive to spend some time alone by himself. While Liv Tyler’s character is home alone, she is attacked by three people wearing strange masks, and she must escape out of the house alive.

“The Strangers” say it’s based on real events, but I’m not finding anything in google about it. Then in the wikipedia information it says that the story was inspired by the director/writers real life experience of being home alone and being attacked by strange people.

“Quarantine” and “The Strangers” are both really good flicks. I’d suggest you to check those films out.

Kev

Thought: “The Strangers” getting strong reviews all over the internet…

Starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman, “The Strangers” a new horror film based on real events is getting strong and positive reviews by critics all over the web. The more I read about it the more it makes me want to see this film in theater next. I would have seen “The Strangers” today but I winded up seeing Indy again instead. Everyone is saying “The Strangers” is actually a very scary and creepy film, probably the scariest horror film made in a long time. I hope they’re right. Most horror films are popcorn flicks that aren’t scary but fun. But this film here is actually a serious one and supposed to be scary. I’m gonna have to check out “The Strangers” before it stops playing.

Kev