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The Strangers: Prey at Night

2018

Johannes Roberts

Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Martin Henderson, Lewis Pullman ...

4.4

3,050

Horror. Thriller The plot follows a family of four who have been evicted from their home due to the economy, and are paid a visit by the same three strangers from the first film. It is not known whether the sequel will follow a theatrical or a straight-to-DVD release. Liv Tyler will return as Kristen McKay while the original three masked villains are also set to return, however, in an interview Tyler had announced that she would only have a minor role.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] plays like an unspooky 'Purge' knockoff, with a trio of psychos making predictable masked mayhem (...) For a movie this formulaic, 'Prey at Night' has an awfully slow build-up."	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"[A] completely unnecessary sequel. Replicating the tropes of its predecessor to a slavish degree (...) It's as rudimentary as slasher films go"	NEG
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"[It] works, and 'Prey at Night' is a strong successor to the first film (...) that also stands on its own merits"	POS
United States	Witney Seibold IGN	"Skillfully made, spooky, stylish, and featuring some quite good character work, 'The Strangers: Prey at Night' stands much taller than the 2008 original."	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Roberts has opted to keep it simple and stupid (...) The whole thing has the air of a cynical, low-quality knockoff of something that wasn’t very good to begin with (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Rafer Guzmán Newsday	"A slight improvement over the 2008 original (...) The material is just too banal (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"Too many vintage power ballads and not enough masked-killer scares (...) This is only half a good horror movie."	NEU
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"The film crucially fails to do is fill us with that same dread that made its predecessor so gut-wrenching (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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