“The Strangers: Prey at Night” Review | Stranger Danger Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
Spoilers beware.
If you read my review for 2008’s The Strangers, you know that I wasn’t exactly a big fan of that home invasion horror movie. The Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman-starring thriller had some positive qualities and a couple of tense moments that sold the unnerving situation well; but overall, the original film was a mostly dull slog to get through as you start looking at your watch, waiting for something — anything — to happen. Is The Strangers: Prey at Night — the 10-years-later sequel released in 2018 — just as boring as the first film?
Strangely enough….no. Color me shocked, but I actually had a good time watching this.
The masked strangers — the Man in the Mask, Dollface, and Pin-Up Girl — are back, now staking their claim in a trailer park in Kalida, Ohio. Their next crop of victims: Cindy, Mike, and their children, teenagers Luke and Kinsey. Kinsey is unhappily about to go to boarding school, and her discontent is made crystal clear to her brother and parents. What starts as one last getaway before everything changes becomes a prelude to the carnage soon to fall upon them, as the strangers choose them as their next targets. With their phones busted and unable to call for help, Kinsey and her family are forced to fight these masked killers if…
