The screenwriter of Strangers: Prey at Night, Brian Bertino, wants it to be very clear from the get-go: the movie is "based on true events." That means, according to an interview with director, Johannes Roberts, that Bertino in fact had a strange woman knock on his door once, and his neighborhood was victim to several burglaries. However, it seems the stabby-stabby, murder-murder stuff was based on Charles Manson, which of course, was a true event, so it's all good.
It's been difficult to build suspense in a post-smartphone world. After all, why would not the first step be, when facing three psychopaths, to take a selfie and tag it #worstLakeTrailerCabinEvar. Too bad all the death and terror is all so senseless, because if the teenage daughter had simply gone to class instead of becoming a dangerous truant with an affection for punk music, there would have been absolutely no need, no need at all, to go to the Murder-a-Lago. Then again, as one of the psychopaths gurgles happily: "Why not?"
Our killers seem to come from the anarchist-nihilist camp, yet they have a fondness for 80s love ballads and they seem very careless around trailer cabins, or maybe they're cabin trailers. There's a pool, and it is home to one of the best scenes in film history, no joke, and the final moments with a truck aflame will be burnt forever, making love out of nothing at all.
It's been difficult to build suspense in a post-smartphone world. After all, why would not the first step be, when facing three psychopaths, to take a selfie and tag it #worstLakeTrailerCabinEvar. Too bad all the death and terror is all so senseless, because if the teenage daughter had simply gone to class instead of becoming a dangerous truant with an affection for punk music, there would have been absolutely no need, no need at all, to go to the Murder-a-Lago. Then again, as one of the psychopaths gurgles happily: "Why not?"
Our killers seem to come from the anarchist-nihilist camp, yet they have a fondness for 80s love ballads and they seem very careless around trailer cabins, or maybe they're cabin trailers. There's a pool, and it is home to one of the best scenes in film history, no joke, and the final moments with a truck aflame will be burnt forever, making love out of nothing at all.