Movie Overview
The Strangers is a 2008 American horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino and starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman as a young couple who are terrorized by three masked assailants.Produced on a budget of $9 million and after two postponements, the film was released theatrically in North America on May 30, 2008. It grossed $82.4 million at the box office worldwide.
The film opens with the statement: "What you are about to see is inspired by true events. According to the FBI, there are an estimated 1.4 million violent crimes in America each year. On the night of February 11, 2005, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt left a friend's wedding reception and returned to the Hoyt summer home. The brutal events that took place there are still not entirely known". It is followed by a recorded 911 call of a boy screaming that he and his friend found two bodies lying in blood in an old vacation house.
The film then moves to the present. A young couple, Kristen and James, arrive at the remote vacation house. James had proposed to Kristen there, but she refused, saying that she is not ready for marriage. James calls his friend Mike to come pick him up in the morning. Shortly after 4 a.m., a young blonde woman, whose face is obscured by low lighting, knocks on the front door asking for Tamara. When told by James and Kristen she is at the wrong house, she asks if they're sure, then leaves with the caveat that she will "see them later".
Due to the tension between him and Kristen, James leaves to buy cigarettes for her. Kristen hears another knock on the door; she refuses to open it after realizing that it is the woman from earlier, who has returned to ask for Tamara again. Kristen hears strange noises, and her cell phone goes missing. When she hears a noise from the back door, she grabs a large kitchen knife and opens the curtains covering the glass door to find a man wearing a sack mask staring back at her. Panicked, she hides in the bedroom until James returns. She explains what just transpired and James goes to investigate. He finds his car ransacked and the blonde woman, now wearing a doll mask, watching him from afar. His phone has had its battery stolen and he realizes the house has been breached.
The couple attempt to leave in James's car, but a third stranger wearing a pin-up girl's mask drives a pick-up truck into the car, totaling it and forcing them to flee. Back in the house, Kristen and James find a shotgun. Mike arrives to help, but James, mistaking him for an intruder, shoots him. A devastated James remembers an old radio transmitter in the backyard shed. He leaves the house and encounters and attempts to shoot the blonde woman, but is ambushed by the masked man.
Kristen hears a shot and runs to the shed. She finds the radio and tries to contact someone for help. Another masked woman appears and smashes the radio. Kristen rushes back to the house, where she is confronted by the blonde woman, who is now armed with a knife. The masked man arrives with the captured James and the gun and incapacitates Kristen. Both James and Kristen are now unconscious.
When James and Kristen wake up, they are tied to chairs in the living room, with the masked strangers standing before them. Kristen asks them why they are doing this, and the blonde woman replies "because you were home". The strangers reveal themselves and take turns stabbing Kristen and James before leaving in the pick-up truck. As they drive away in their pick-up truck they drive past two young boys who are distributing religious tracts. Dollface gets out of the pick-up track to ask for a tract. The boy asks her if she's a sinner she replies "Sometimes" and he gives her the tract. When she returns to the car Pin-Up Girl assures her "It will be easier next time.". The two young boys come to the house, finding the destroyed car on the yard and the front door open. They enter the house and discover the bodies of Kristen and James. Kristen, who is still alive, wakes up and screams.
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