Dumelang! Sanibonani! Hello everyone! I hope you're well. This week's blog post is a review for a horror movie that I watched over the December holidays called 'The Strangers: Prey At Night'.
The Strangers: Prey At Night is ideal fans who enjoy the gore-filled, shrilled screams of victims, who cannot see that they are in a conspicuous location. That is the basis of this movie. The Strangers: Prey at Night follows as a sequel to the film, The Strangers, a film that was released ten years ago in 2008, which starred Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman (check the trailer for it below).
Whenever a horror movie is released, viewers would look for the following as they watch: gory scenes, pale-faced victims, and a back story around the antagonist’s motive for killing the film’s characters. The Strangers’ supposed sequel (which can be watched as a standalone film) contains two components of the above checklist, and that’s all there is to it.
The film introduces viewers to a family (played by Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Martin Henderson and Lewis Pullman) that travel to a secluded trailer park for a short stay and are stalked by three psychopathic villains, whose faces are covered in masks, throughout the evening in a series of thrilling events.
The crazed villains are known simply as – Doll Face, Pin Up Girl and the Man in the Mask – three young people who spend the entire night tormenting and killing the family, because according to Pin Up Girl, “Why not? It’s fun”.
It is understandable to create a horror film aimed at scaring audiences with the gory actions of the three masked villains, however, to link the film to its prequel from 2008, The Strangers, is rather unnecessary on the basis that there are no factors in this film that link the sequel to the first film in the The Strangers series.
Another point to add is that the plot is extremely weak, because it leaves the audience trying to understand the whole point of targeting the family of four and senselessly killing them - although they are psychopaths, so I guess its fun to them. There is no back story, nor a glimpse into the future of the victims of the movie, the film is simply about the here and the now, and that is possibly the simplest way to describe the quality of the film.
I must add though that the producers of the film did add an alternate ending - in which viewers are titillated with the idea that there is more to the story then what was shown, but again, that ending is unnecessary because there is not much of a difference from the original ending of the film.
'The Strangers: Prey At Night' is not a film that one would brag about or call one of the best horror film releases of the year (that title was split between 'Halloween' and 'The Nun'), however, if any of you are interested in a horror/slasher film that makes you want to cover your eyes half of the time, then this movie is up your alley. Enjoy.
Check out the trailer for 'The Strangers: Prey At Night' below:
- Love, light and blessings xx.
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