Wow, that’s a pretty cool poster..alhtough I woulda put burlap sack mask guy up front. But that’s just me. Props to the cineconchile site I found it on.
You guys have all seen the preview for this movie, they’ve saturated the airwaves for the past couple weeks. This film was one of those cases where the trailer REALLY made me wanna see the thing. It made the film out to be a really dark, quiet, creepy, thriller and the masks the killer people have on seemed so simple but so effective. The impressiveness of the trailer, while making me want to see it, also lead me to believe that I was going to be severely disappointed. Buuuut I went and saw it last night anyway, and let me tell you….that shit was awesome. I could not have been more pleased with how it turned out, it really lived up to and exceeded all my expectations. It really is a creepy ass movie. Ya know how you felt the first time you saw Halloween or The Blair Witch Project? The whole uneasiness feeling that those movies created so well and the suspense they built is almost matched by The Strangers. It almost seems like director Bryan Bertino graduated from the John Carpenter school of horror film direction and portrayal of the ‘bad guy’. This movie just does so many things well. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not really all that creative a story and it doesn’t do anything terribly new and innovative at all, but it doesn’t need to. A seemingly motiveless crime makes up basically the entire plot of the film, the characters aren’t all that developed, the dialog is limited, and it’s basically shot all in one place..which SHOULD make it boring, contrived, and laughable..but for some reason, I didn’t find The Strangers to be any of those things. I’m a horror movie junkie, and yeah I’ve read LOTS of bad reviews about this film but I think people just have too hard a time enjoying a movie for what it is. What The Strangers is is a dark, creepy, mind-fuck of a ‘this could happen to you’ thriller kinda movie that provides a slew of classic horror jump moment and proves that less really can be more.
Yeeeaaah I really wanna see this movie. Shann doesn’t like scary movies though. The paper bag mask guy is effing creepy. Especially when Tyler’s just standing there and he comes walking out of the hallway and just stares at her..eeewww. Reminds me of The Ring, which actually MADE me want to close my eyes, but I didn’t. Scary movies don’t do those things to me, and that one did. Still need to see Zombie’s Halloween though…
Blair Witch=Dumb