The Strangers. The creepy movie where Dennis from Always Sunny In Philadelphia gets shot in the face. While our other posts have been about movies that were either too cheesy to be scary or made in the 80’s and just came up a bit short with the scare factor, this movie is for real. Not only does the suspense keep you on the edge of your seat like a 13 year old girl watching Bend it Like Beckham, but it was based on a true story so the terror goes way beyond the screen. In this movie, a guy and his heartless girlfriend decided to go on a trip. They decide to stay the night at his family’s summerhouse. What a terrible idea that turns out to be. Not only does this guy not know how to use a shotgun, but when he finally does figure it out he doesn’t seem to want to use it except to kill his friends. This movie is much like any other successful scary movie. It is full of two of more people making all the wrong decisions and getting themselves into more and more trouble with every decision they make. Remember, you can’t make a good horror movie unless at one point you split up. It is unwise to try to take on three people any other way but on your own. Granted, if they were smarter and just got in the car right when they realized people were in the house they would have gotten out alive. And what kind of a movie would that be? I don’t know, probably a boring chick-flick where the police get involved. But in all honesty this movie was better than most. Since it has a true scare factor, I give this move a 7.1 out of 10 stars.
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