The Strangers (2008) (Collector's Edition)

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Originally Posted by bigdaddyhorse

While the sequel was fun, it really didn't fit that well with the original. The killers were just too brazen and careless in it. It was almost like they had a death wish and wanted to get killed themselves, where they were slick and calculated the first film.

Someone on a thread had an interesting theory on that though, that it wasn't the killers at all, but some copycats who saw the real ones on the news or something. Although if that's the case, who lived, or witnessed, to tell about the masks?

Fun flick, but completely different in near every aspect.

Agreed. It was amusing, but too playful to the point that it didn't feel like it was a continuation of the original. I saw The Strangers in theaters at a midnight opening showing when it came out (remember when they used to do actual midnight showings on Thursdays?)—I went with my best friend, and we were the only ones in the theater. It mortified both of us. We lived together at the time, and were both legitimately on edge when we got home. It's to date the most tense film I've seen on a big screen. Even with its pitfalls, in some ways I still regard it as a genius movie. It manipulates universal fears that we all have in our own homes, and does it so methodically.