The Strangers
Blu-ray (Collector's Edition)
Director: Bryan Bertino
Screenwriter: Bryan Bertino
Cast: Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Glenn Howerton, Gemma Ward
Distributor: Scream Factory
R/Unrated | 86/91 Minutes
Release Date: March 6, 2018
2008's The Strangers, written and directed by Bryan Bertino, was inspired by two real-life events: the Tate murders, a series of killings carried out by members of the Manson Family in 1969; and a string of break-ins that occurred in the Texas filmmaker's neighborhood as a child. One night, while his parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door of Bertino's house, and his little sister answered it. The strangers on the doorstep were asking for someone who didn't live there. Later, Bertino found out that these uninvited guests would knock on doors throughout the area; if no one was home, they would vandalize the property and take what they wanted.
As for the mask-wearing, knife-wielding sickos in The Strangers, the fact that someone's home doesn't discourage the intruders; it emboldens them. After a long night at a friend's wedding reception, James (Scott Speedman, Underworld) and Kristen (Liv Tyler, The Lord of the Rings trilogy) return to James' childhood summer home in rural South Carolina. Just after 4 a.m., there's a knock at the door. A young blonde woman (Gemma Ward), whose face is obscured by shadow, asks for Tamara. When James tells her that she has the wrong house, the woman leaves with an unsettling utterance: "See you later." [...]
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