Review of The Strangers - only scary for those with no self-defense skills
Review of The Strangers 2008 To put it bluntly, this is a great movie for all the ways to NOT do good self-defense. A husband and wife ( and later the brother ) are at a family home in a fairly isolated area. The movie recounts a harrowing and terrifying night for the couple with lots of drama, fear, jump scares and all the usual makings of a bad guy, home invasion type movie. Halloween, this isn't. There are so many failures in this movie and here are a few. 1. In the beginning of the movie, it is 4:00 in the morning, the couple has returned from a party after a bad argument and they are tired, worn and emotionally raw. " KNOCK" on the door. They both look at each other like...Who could that be ? They go to the door and open it. No checking around, no peephole and the porch light is out that was on a few minutes ago. The young girl says " Is Tamara here?" in a halting, slow to respond voice. When they say no, she says... " I'll be seeing you...