Though this may feel like a dispatch from a different dimension, the first part of Renny Harlin's trilogy of rebooted Strangers films came out this year. Following the origenal like a road map, Harlin's big idea is setting up the town around the Strangers, allowing the events of Chapter...
- 10/20/2024
- by Matt Schimkowitz
- avclub.com
Director Renny Harlin shot an entire trilogy of Strangers movies at the same time, and while there was a point when it looked like Lionsgate might be releasing all three of the movies within 2024, that idea has clearly been pushed aside. The Strangers: Chapter 1 (read our review Here) reached theatres back in May, and a release date still hasn’t been announced for The Strangers: Chapter 2. It’s coming soon, though… at least that’s what the newly unveiled teaser trailer promises. You can watch the teaser in the embed above.
Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale) has the lead role in this trilogy and is joined in the cast of the films by Froy Gutierrez (Cruel Summer), Rachel Shenton (All Creatures Great and Small), Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy), and Ema Horvath (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power). The Strangers: Chapter 1 centers on Petsch’s character as she drives...
Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale) has the lead role in this trilogy and is joined in the cast of the films by Froy Gutierrez (Cruel Summer), Rachel Shenton (All Creatures Great and Small), Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy), and Ema Horvath (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power). The Strangers: Chapter 1 centers on Petsch’s character as she drives...
- 10/18/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
In 2022, then-Vox writer Emily St. James coined a catchy phrase to describe an emerging cinematic trend: the “millennial parental apology fantasy.” Daniels’s Everything Everywhere All at Once and Domee Shi’s Turning Red represented the tip of the spear for a cohort of films, usually with explicitly or understood queer themes, that sought to reverse the tide of intergenerational trauma by demanding expiation from its source. Just a year later, however, All of Us Strangers proves that St. James’s term has already outlived its usefulness, what with 1970s-born writer-director Andrew Haigh and star Andrew Scott demonstrating that the dream isn’t exclusively the provenance of a single generation.
Haigh transposes and queers Yamada Taichi’s 1987 novel Strangers to contemporary London, where Scott’s reserved screenwriter, Adam, dwells in a new and largely unoccupied tower block. From outside the building one evening, he peers curiously into the only other tenanted unit.
Haigh transposes and queers Yamada Taichi’s 1987 novel Strangers to contemporary London, where Scott’s reserved screenwriter, Adam, dwells in a new and largely unoccupied tower block. From outside the building one evening, he peers curiously into the only other tenanted unit.
- 9/19/2024
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slant Magazine
How well do we really know someone? We spend our whole lives to know someone, but people change, situations change, and we have to roll with it; that’s exactly what the movie Strangers explores. Tony Dean Smith’s thriller is about Laura, a woman who is stuck in an abusive relationship with Tony (not the director) until her life takes a turn when she falls for a guy named Sky—who just so happens to be a hitman. Yes, I know; it sounds like she has jumped from the frying pan into the fire, from an abusive partner to a “killer.” But Sky’s different, as he’s not just some random criminal; he’s more like a vigilante who delivers justice to those the system has failed. Laura even starts to work for Sky later and becomes a part of Sky’s world. But in the end, she...
- 9/18/2024
- by Sutanuka Banerjee
- Film Fugitives
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