In Renny Harlin’s The Strangers: Chapter 1, Venus, Oregon, is turned into a fatal trap for an unsuspecting couple thanks to the three masked killers who first went on a bloody rampage in 2008’s The Strangers. And while the seemingly same murderous trio was responsible for the massacre in 2018’s The Strangers: Prey at Night, Harlin’s film is a more direct homage to the original, starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman. But unlike Bryan Bertino’s film, there’s an opaque, near-tangible design to the danger that Maya and Ryan drive into in The Strangers: Chapter 1.

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What Is The Film About?

Venus doesn’t seem like a town that’s too giddy about welcoming a couple of outsiders. And eating at a local diner under the judgmental gaze isn’t what Maya and Ryan had in mind when they stopped for a quick bite. The passive...