The Strangers: simply terrifying

A few thoughts on The Strangers which we went to see Saturday at Opry Mills. First of all, I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, never have been really- mainly the gory ones. As we were walking in the theater I thought to myself, wtf am I doing here? as I knew this was most likely going to scare the b'jesus out of me, but hey- if the boys are down, I'm down.

It was scary- almost unwatchable at times as they taunted those of us watching just like the victims on screen, but it was not gory- at all. In fact there's more blood in a Die Hard movie to be honest. No, the main point of this was just to terrorize people all night and then murder them. It was so simple that it became even scarier to me. Just thought of random crazies stopping because your porch light is on, scaring the shit out of you all night and then stabbing you to death is enough to make you unscrew your lightbulbs. Hate to spoil the plot, but that's what you're getting. I knew that going into it and I still went, everyone did. The fact is though, that when you throw a score that's downright sick (seriously impressive) and add simple terror, you've got yourself an original picture. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone that wants to be scared, it's a good film for that. If you want big budget camera tricks and gore, you probably won't be satisfied at The Strangers simple, rural terror. However, my opinion is that it's far scarier being "lower budget"- no actors you know pretending to be villains. nothing else at all to take your mind off of things, it's almost real-time, and you're trapped in the theater watching it go down, like they are trapped in the middle of nowhere. These masked people have no faces, no souls, and no identity in or out of Hollywood and that is extra scary to me. You almost feel like YOU survived when walking out of the theater. So make sure you see an early show so you can stop by the shotgun store on your way home.



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