
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.... (Full plot summary below)
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After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.
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| Jam! MoviesJim SlotekThe Strangers is nothing fancy, though for a first-timer, Bertino paints a nice claustrophobic picture and knows what to do with the dark. |
| OregonianM.E. RussellImagine Funny Games stripped of all its social commentary, dark humor and information about its killers, and you're starting to get the idea. It's so spare, it's almost abstract. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff ViceIt gets less scary and less tense as it goes along. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsAbusive and arty as it contemplates abuse and art, The Strangers delivers what you guess it will. |
| Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)Greg Maki... The work of a born filmmaker who shows a remarkable command of tone and pace. It is a new classic in its genre ... |
| Film School RejectsKevin CarrThe Strangers suffers from lack of originality. I've seen most of this film in other movies, and as a horror fan, I found little that was new or innovative. |
| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceWriter-director Bertino just wants to scare our pants off, and succeeds admirably. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasIt isn't particularly original--for one, it owes an unacknowledged debt to the French film "Them"--but as an exercise in controlled mayhem, horror movies don't get much scarier. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThis is no splatter movie: spare, suspenseful and brilliantly invested in silence, Bryan Bertino's debut feature unfolds in a slow crescendo of intimidation. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonIt wrings ever drop of terror it can out of making us identify with doomed people, and suffering as they suffer. That might be nihilistic, but it's also empathetic. |