Before you look at this rating and say "oh wow I guess the Strangers sequel is actually pretty good," first consider that I am a huge glutton for:

- neon
- synthpop
- fog
- HEAVY Carpenter influences
- cool title cards
- slasher movies, especially shitty and ridiculous slasher sequels with masked killers

If you yourself are also a glutton for these things, proceed. If not, back the fuck up.

Was hoping I'd like this as much as the original
that I just watched for the first time a few weeks ago.

I did not.

This is a film that features De Palma like silhouette shots, masked killers, pop music, people being stabbed, a sequence involving a knife struggle inside a pool while Total Eclipse of the Heart plays in the background, and Christina Hendricks......

This movie gets me on a deep, personal level in terms of what I want to see when I go to the movies.

(Also no joke, I know I complain about Jump-Scares a lot, but the ones in this legit made me scream like two times)

Brutal piercings of the flesh, blunt trauma, and post-traumatic stress; a non-stop tension-fest from beginning to end (only this one sticks the landing). The anxiety of love and familial bonds being stripped away like skin from bone. Blood-written hellos echo through the halls of the human psyche, and leave behind mental wounds that run deeper than any physical infliction ever could. The pain of loss, greater than the pain of penetrating flesh; disrupted & destroyed not by the bullet, but by the erosion of normality, and knowing that you're life will never again be the same.

88

"On the third track of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, Giorgio Moroder discusses the usage of the synthesizer and its basis as “a sound of the future.” He goes on to say that “you can do anything you want”, as there is no judgment, no preconceptions, with the rhythms of the expansive technology. It was, admittedly, a time where romance of futurism and media were frustratingly connected, with the genre-fare becoming bleaker and increasingly aggressive, tuned to the beats of mutilated flesh and existential ennui. The music was waiting for the world, and our perception of it, to speed up and ignite towards The Jetsons, but the result of synth in the ‘70s and ‘80s is clashing ambiance, doomed to accompany a world unfit for its possibility."

On one of the best Slasher films in recent memory.

In the running for worst film of 2018. I wasn't a huge cheerleader of the first STRANGERS, but I thought it was good enough with Liv Tyler's exceptional performance. PREY AT NIGHT, however, is such a template of Hollywood retread horror structure. There are no surprises. No excitement. No originality. The only thing I took away from this movie was how old Martin Henderson got. It's been a long time since THE RING and TORQUE.

Before I even press play on this movie, I don’t like Bailee Madison and I would have preferred almost anyone over her. 

All I wanted out of this movie was the same eerie silence that we got from the first movie. There was too much background noise, music, dialogue... I needed the silence that I so vividly remember from the first movie. As I sit here and type this while watching the movie they are literally screaming for each other cause you know, that’s the perfect way to try to hide from people hunting you to kill you. 

The whole pool scene had me cheesing. Best part of the movie. 

Ten years later and Bagface could still smash.

End of movie — Yes, I still dislike Bailee Madison very much.

Oh the things I will watch whenever I fancy actors who are in almost literally nothing.

As far as slashers go though... it wasn't repulsive so that's a big plus. Full of the expected senselessness clichés and pitfalls of the genre, but in a way that's pleasantly laughable since it's mostly harmless and doesn't matter in the end. I liked the two kid characters (mainly the brother, let's be real, and the pool sequence was the best), there was a few solid moments and less irritating ones, and the dude with the axe has fun taste in music. So all in all I can't complain. I wouldn't call it good but I had a fairly good time watching it.

unique slasher film and way different than the first. yet i still like the first better. love the asthetic of it and the music was great.

christina hendricks AND joan holloway sweeties i am so sorry

With a real story,better actors/acting, and not as shitty editing and music, this could have been phenomenal.

yet another movie where the hot parents don’t bang. sick of hollywood pulling this shit.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

When I see another car I floor it