STRANGERS PREY AT NIGHT TORRENT MOVIE
Though, if I'm being fair, there was a sequel being planned for this movie shortly after the release of the original over ten years ago. That's what a lot of direct-to-video horror sequels end up feeling like. A horror movie was successful, but a sequel wouldn't exactly do great business in theaters, so they just threw some bucks at some aspiring filmmakers and had them produce a quick and cheap sequel that they could, through DVD rentals or VOD, make their money back on because they cashed in on the name of a successful horror movie.
Mostly this is done for purposes of pure greed. Quarantine 2, for example, took place on a plane and had absolutely very little to do with the original movie, which was a remake of Rec (a tremendous horror movie). What they did, they took a generic script, make some slight adjustments so it can, maybe, fit into the same universe as the original and just slap the same name onto it. The reason I say this is that I've seen a few movies that, supposedly, were sequels to a horror movie that had nothing in common with the original movie, except that they shared the same name with a number at the end of it or, in this case, a subtitle.
Regardless, let's move on, shall we? I wonder if this movie initially started as a sequel to the original. But that's kind of an inverse home invasion, in that the the person doing the invading is a person that actually lives in the home the film takes place in. Have I reviewed a home invasion movie in this annual horror fest yet? Oh yea, Better Watch Out. The Strangers: Prey at Night is worth burying in the past. Listen for the looming 80s soundtrack as a giveaway, people. How the hell do these people get the jump on everybody? It's like they can choose to make sound or not. The kills are lame, the suspense set pieces are dumb, and the attackers are boring. It feels like random scenes that just stretch and stretch and it's hard to even bother paying attention. It's just one poorly executed attack sequence after another with nothing to offer but forced irony. Surely, you would assume, that in the final act, she will make use of this same skill to save herself, you know attaching a payoff to a setup. I paused this movie to give myself a break and only 20 minutes had passed! Here's another example of the bad plotting: we have a teen girl kicked out of school for some rebellious, disciplinary action. At one point one of the killers is going to be unmasked and the film plays it up as great reveal? Who could it be? Oh, it's nobody, because the anonymity is the point but the movie forgot. This is the only aspect of note in what is otherwise a thoroughly rote slasher film. One killer literally won't leave a car radio until he gets that exact right soundtrack. Seriously, the music is part of the scene and these imbecilic killers almost have an OCD-level compulsion to have to listen to their kickin' tunes when they're kicking in heads. It's about a boring family that takes a vacation (?) to a trailer park (?) and is terrorized by mask-wearing strangers who insist on killing set to diegetic 80s pop music (?). Coming ten years too late, the inane sequel to The Strangers is a home invasion thriller that was so bad that I had to stop it five separate times to collect myself.
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