Movie Review: The Strangers.Posted Jun-03-08 13:24:03 PDT Very Good debut from a first time director! BOTTOM LINE: True horror comes from sources that hit close to home, in this case - a stranger knocking at your door in the middle of the night, asking for someone who doesn't live there. It's unsettling how easily a normal nite can resort to pure terror from invaders in masks. Nothing supernatural, just three regular sick, twisted....people.
* I read the director's interview in the Austin Chronicle, and this movie is loosely based on events taken from newspaper articles. http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:629431 PLUS, it actually happened to him! except for the getting killed part. Obviously. -Will |