The Strangers

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1 hr. 25 min.

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

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49%

164 Reviews

Tomatometer

48%

250,000+ Ratings

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Kristen (Liv Tyler) and James (Scott Speedman) are expecting a relaxing weekend at a family vacation home, but their stay turns out to be anything but peaceful. First, a mysterious and dangerous woman arrives at the door while James is out on an errand. When he returns, he accidentally kills his friend Mike (Glenn Howerton), mistaking him for an intruder. And then real danger does show up -- in the form of three masked torturers, leaving Kristen and James struggling for survival.

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Critics Consensus

The Strangers has a handful of genuinely scary moments, but they're not enough to elevate the end results above standard slasher fare.

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B T

If only the main characters weren't so stupid, this movie would be a LOT better. A great premise ruined by a myriad of idiotic decisions and mistakes. These characters deserved to die for how many accidental bumps, noises and falls happened.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/16/24

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cyttvs V

This movie was irritating to watch because of how stupid the main leads were..they could've lived if they just stopped and thought to themselves the whole movie was really annoying and to find out it was based on a real story just irritates me even more and shines a lot of light on how people lack survival skills smh

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/14/24

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Estuard F

Terror de cslidad que pone los pelos de punta

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/23/24

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Quandale D

W movie but this movie was scary af I mean like this scared me when i was 8 and i hadn't even watched it yet

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/23/24

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Emmett L

Writing characters that make the worst possible decisions yet again ruins a decent premise.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/16/24

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Marianna M

One of my top 3 movies

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/14/24

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Bryan Bertino

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Liv Tyler

Kristen

Scott Speedman

James

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Sara Vilkomerson

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The movie is best before the mayhem actually starts: First-time writer-director Bryan Bertino gets right some priceless details as the couple try to deal with the evening's earlier fallout, and elevates his movie above other horror films.

Mar 31, 2019

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

The formula of calm followed by shock is repeated until one tires of the technical polish of Bryan Bertino's directorial debut (with nods towards Funny Games and the French Them?) in the absence of coherent plot or character development.

Mar 31, 2019

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Adam Nayman

The Ringer

Bertino's directorial smarts are on display from the first slow-cut montage of rural homes glimpsed from the window of a moving car. It's a passage suggesting free-floating, arbitrary menace.

Mar 9, 2018

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Toussaint Egan

Polygon

A lean and profoundly gripping horror movie that strips the home invasion subgenre down to its bare essential parts to drive home the intimate, primal terror of its premise.

Oct 20, 2021

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

The Strangers isn't scary, just tedious.

Rated: 1/4

Aug 31, 2021

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

Simple, effective and (most importantly) terrifying.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 30, 2020

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Synopsis

Kristen (Liv Tyler) and James (Scott Speedman) are expecting a relaxing weekend at a family vacation home, but their stay turns out to be anything but peaceful. First, a mysterious and dangerous woman arrives at the door while James is out on an errand. When he returns, he accidentally kills his friend Mike (Glenn Howerton), mistaking him for an intruder. And then real danger does show up -- in the form of three masked torturers, leaving Kristen and James struggling for survival.

Director: Bryan Bertino
Executive Producer: Kelli Konop, Joseph Drake, Sonny Mallhi, Trevor Macy, Marc D. Evans
Screenwriter: Bryan Bertino
Distributor: Rogue Pictures
Production Co: Mandate Pictures, Vertigo, Intrepid Pictures, Rogue Pictures, E1 Entertainment
Rating: R (Violence/Terror|Language)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 30, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 15, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $52.5M
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby SRD, DTS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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