This article contains spoilers For “foreigners: prey at night”.
“The Strangers: Chapter 2” by Renny Harlin is now in theaters, but the horror suite has been largely turned by criticism. / Rafael Motamayor of the film described the intermediate entry of the proposed trilogy a “false step” in his criticism, and yet he is extraordinarily kind. Not only does Harlin do not understand what makes foreigners frightening, but he does not have confidence to really go wild with his deviations. Everything is so apathetic and lazy, but fortunately, there is already an excellent “Strangers” suite that you can watch for free (with advertisements) at the moment in Tubi.
Released in the rooms a decade after the Reception of Home Invasion 2008 of Bryan Bertino, “The Strangers: Prey at Night” was initially considered a series of superfluous horror. Some criticisms praised the “night prey” for its visual fulfillment, but it was largely rejected compared to the most founded original. Let me be the person who finally has the platform to say that not only the continuation led by Johannes Roberts is better That the original, it is flat one of the best slashers of the 2010 years. If you think that I look crazy, then imagine how I had to justify this position in 2018.
Rather than picking up the same wire of history of the original, “The Strangers: Prey at Night” rather follows a family that stops in a park of isolated trailers for the night en route to bring Kinsey (Bailee Madison), the disturbing teenage girl, to a boarding school. He initially follows the conventions of the first film with the same stroke of the door, which is logical since Bertino returns to co-write the scenario with Ben Katai. But “Prey at Night” wisely forges its own bloody path which distinguishes it from most Slasher suites in a fairly remarkable way.
The Strangers: Prey At Night is one of the best Slasher films in 2010
The enigmatic Tamara is apparently never at home, but the three masked foreigners known as dollface (Emma Bellomy), pin -up girl (Lea Enslin), and the man in the mask (Damian Maffei) – which I will qualify as Sackhead to avoid confusion – are right where they want to be. I find it much more painful to attend an entire family that inadvertently sounds the tin of the killer’s dinner than an isolated couple. They are an emotionally fractured group which are unfortunately gathered by surviving at night. Roberts wisely turns the horror of the slow home invasion at Moody Slasher without losing the average sequence of the original.
It also helps that the actors playing foreigners intelligently demonstrate the lights of personalities under these masks which make them feel really singular. Sackhead is lost without a few pop songs from the 80s to accompany his prolonged killed, Pin-Up Girl likes to be a devious sneaky, and Dollface embraces the intimacy of his killers. The way she slowly slips on Cindy by Christina Hendricks with a knife, while Cindy always holds the hand of her daughter, undoubtedly makes the early annoying disappearance just as overwhelming as the end of the first film, if not more. It is when the closed Kinsey demolishes her walls and begins to call her “mom” while the knife passes in that it becomes a really terrifying film moment.
Another feather in the “Prey at Night’s” cap is how elegant it is, with misty nocturnal sets that you can really see, Diopter and Long Voyeuristic Diopters. The roller park is a fun murder playground for a slasher film which allows many opportunities to run, hide and fight – with its best move used as a Lynchpin from the film.
The pool room is the key to the grandeur of foreigners
“The Strangers: Prey At Night” goes up a gear when Big Brother Luke (“Thunderbolts *” The Star Lewis Pullman) is in the position of position in the pool of the caravan park. A reversal of a switch and neon lights wash the place in flashing colors. Just when you think Pin-Up Girl is about to get the drop, Luke gets the upper hand with a golf club and the own knife of his attacker. This is where “the prey of the night” finally resists the killers, and the film flies away accordingly. The ax battle that followed between Luke and Sackhead is intense and sincere, because “the total eclipse of the heart of Bonnie Tyler and Jim Steinman underlines their fight in the pool.
“PREY AT Night” is the rare follower of horror franchise which is not afraid to kill its cows at cash in favor of what makes sense for history. We are conditioned to accept foreigners as apathetic death machines that always get the upper hand, which makes it even more engaging when they start to receive a cathartic taste of their own medication. The last 10 minutes can push your credibility on the damage that Sackhead may undergo, but the inclusion of visual references following “Christine” by John Carpenter and “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” which manage to not Feeling sticking is certainly a point in favor of this slasher.
“The Strangers: Prey at Night” is currently streaming on Tubi.
