Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Strangers franchise has three movies, and one ranks higher than the rest. The three simple words, "because you were home," sparked fear into the hearts of moviegoers with the release of the first film in 2008, as three masked killers wreaked havoc on a secluded couple with seemingly no motive.
Harlin has also directed the other two films in the new trilogy, which were filmed at the same time as The Strangers: Chapter 1 in 2022. Harlin has said he considers all three movies to be one complete story, viewing Chapter 1 as the first act of a longer film. While it remains to be seen how the rest of the new The Strangers trilogy ends up, every released film can already be ranked.
Director Renny Harlin is no stranger to the horror genre, as he directed Prison, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, and Deep Blue Sea. The ending gives a little insight that the next two films could give more backstory to the killers, and the trilogy as a whole could make things less ambiguous than this carbon copy of the original film. However, without release dates or even hints about what they'll be about, interest could decline fast. Critically, The Strangers: Chapter 1 hasn't done well, either. The film holds just an 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, the lowest RT score of the horror franchise, and a 5.4/10 on IMDb.
2 The Strangers: Prey at Night The Strangers: Prey at Night Is The Most Fun Film In The Franchise Close Right in the middle of the rankings, The Strangers: Prey at Night offers a refreshing feel after the bleakness of the original film. Coming a decade later, the sequel feels much more like a campy '80s slasher than a horrifying home invasion movie.
The Strangers: Prey at Night is mostly seen as a middle-of-the-road quality film by most critics, though the consensus is more muddied than both the original and latest films. IGN's Witney Seibold gave the film high praise, scoring it an 8.2 out of 10 on the popular media site, one of the highest scores it received. The film did decently among casual viewers, too, as it turned its small, $5 million budget into a $31 million success at the box office.
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