I'm not saying this concept can't work indeed, some films featuring just a couple of characters in a room work very well. Can you say repetitive? It's as if the film-makers saw the last ten minute showdown between Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Myers in HALLOWEEN and decided to expand it to feature length. Plot points are ten, sometimes twenty minutes apart and between then we just get ominous music and noises on the soundtrack. From then on, minor events are dragged out for endless minutes as the characters face a cat-and-mouse game with masked attackers. The entire lack of a plot doesn't help – unless you count the expository first ten minutes, which introduce a central couple who are so caught up in themselves that you instantly dislike them. Heck, even the behind-the-scenes footage on the DVD was more interesting than the film itself. The sad truth is that the true story, which I read about online, is far more interesting than this clichéd, boring, and frankly forgettable attempt at horror. THE STRANGERS attracted a little controversy after supposedly being based on a true story – a still unexplained murder in which a woman and three kids were brutally killed in their own home one night by supposed strangers without a motive. "Home invasion" horrors seem to have enjoyed a resurgence as of late, THE STRANGERS one of a handful of similar titles to hit cinemas in recent years: there was the French shocker THEM, the US remake of FUNNY GAMES, motel chiller VACANCY, even THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT remake explores similar themes of sudden, unexpected violence intruding in our own homes and neighbourhoods. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 3 / 10 A film as expressionless as its masked killers
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