The Strangers: Prey At Night takes a slightly different approach from the original film and gives us a few more victims and a much bigger canvas for the titular strangers to roam and chase their prey around, but it's missing some of that slow burn terror that made the original so effective.
A family on its way to drop of their daughter at a boarding school decide to stay the night at a family member's trailer in a deserted trailer mark and run afoul of a group of masked crazies who want to play a deadly game with them.
The acting is strong, the atmosphere is thick, and a few set pieces do stand out, but most of the film feels a tiny bit repetitive and it's never quite as suspenseful or scary as it should be. The synth heavy score brings the doom and gloom, but also sounds a lot like John Carpenter's music from The Fog.
Thankfully, The Strangers: Prey At Night never hits many of the usual bum sequel notes, but it's not must see entertainment either. A lot of what it has to offer has been done better elsewhere, but it's not a total waste of time.
A family on its way to drop of their daughter at a boarding school decide to stay the night at a family member's trailer in a deserted trailer mark and run afoul of a group of masked crazies who want to play a deadly game with them.
The acting is strong, the atmosphere is thick, and a few set pieces do stand out, but most of the film feels a tiny bit repetitive and it's never quite as suspenseful or scary as it should be. The synth heavy score brings the doom and gloom, but also sounds a lot like John Carpenter's music from The Fog.
Thankfully, The Strangers: Prey At Night never hits many of the usual bum sequel notes, but it's not must see entertainment either. A lot of what it has to offer has been done better elsewhere, but it's not a total waste of time.