Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

cyberman-38605 Why all the bad reviews? Did I watch a totally different movie from everyone else because I thought this was a solid home invasion thriller. The pacing was great and the movie kept me at the edge of my seat throughout. The opening 10-15 minutes are slow but I feel like it overall added to the movie. I went into this film expecting a solid home invasion thriller and that's exactly what I got. 8/10

djfrost-46786 Kinda slow, and quiet too. Best parts are the masks. That being said you can see where American Horror Story got alot of their stuff from. Specially Cult. Very average movie though.

thesar-2 Get ready for a cartoon couple that makes so many, MANY mistakes, The Triple Title Threat probably didn't have to do anything but wait around until their prey accidentally killed themselves.Maybe this is where Tucker & Dale got their ideas.So, you're being stalked in your place, smart enough to arm yourself with a knife, but dumb enough to cut yourself in the process of running into a room and while trying to fit under the bed for safety, you find you're too big, and then spend a minute fumbling around with a lamp to turn it off, thinking somehow that might give away your location to the killer right outside the bedroom and YOU FORGET TO SHUT THE BEDROOM DOOR? I don't even care if it doesn't have a lock on it. THAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST INSTINCT.I'm totally getting ahead of myself and back to my original point: If you enjoy watching people make such blatant and moronic decisions, this is the home invasion thriller for you.The movie is literally a 15-minute suspense YouTube Purge Prequel bloated more than five times its welcome. A sad couple gets terrorized by three masked nobodies. Annnnd, that's the entire synopsis. I remember seeing this only one other time when it first came out ten years ago. As much as I heard good things, as much as this is my type of horror and as much as I wanted to like it, I hated it. I recall giving it 1½ stars out of five. With the inevitable sequel finally coming out a decade later, and premiering this weekend, I felt I might be wrong in my first impression. Well, yeah, I was wrong. Just now, not back then.Oh, and "inspired by true events?" Seriously? So Jaws was as well since sharks have occasionally snacked on humans? I should write my own screenplay "inspired by true events" and when pressed, I would argue there were people in my fictional town and many places have actual towns with people living in them.And don't get me started on the too-young-to-be-Mormon-bicyclists, yet still creepy Christian boys' reaction to the carnage in both the beginning and end. Aside from the 999th predictable jump scare (oh, movie, you were so close to an even thousand - if only you were a normal movie's length,) the boys' "I've read about worse in the Bible" unemotional blank stares to a gruesome bloodbath makes for some incredible unintentional laughter. It was just so hard trying to sympathize with such idiots. Um, the couple, not the boys. They were probably rejects from A.I.'s robot kid factory. Never once did I root for them. I just wanted the Strangers to literally sit down on the couch for the majority of the film while our "heroes/victims" did everything in their power to reverse living. Now, THAT, would've been a more interesting film.***Final thoughts: So, I brought this movie up to a coworker/fellow horror fan at work today and she said she didn't like these types of movie because they could really happen. Further, she explained she liked ghost stories more. I told her that's exactly why I love these; since they could happen, that's what scares me. Ghosts don't exist, so the movies about them never frighten me. She went on to say she also doesn't believe in ghosts, so those movies that couldn't happen scare her more.Funny. I doubt I've ever met my match...at the complete end of the spectrum.

JP It's wrong for me to watch this at night with the lights off and the windows open. The story is frightening, mainly because the story is realistic. It's one of human's biggest fears: to be invaded. That's why locks are invented.The story starts uninteresting. After a wedding reception they attended, a beautiful couple goes home, located at the middle of nowhere. Some dialogues here and there, flashbacks on why they're both upset. And then the tension starts with a knock, Liv Tyler's character is alone, she's vulnerable and frightened. You can feel the suspense, the tension, your heart racing because of the unknown.That's it, it's pretty suspenseful, really. On other aspects, this film is average. The characterization is not very good, but then, in movies like this, the filmmakers do not give much thought about characters as they focus more on the suspense and frightening parts. The story is too simple and quite unimaginative. Yes, it's suspenseful, especially at the beginning. But that's it. No "I didn't see that coming" moments. There are also overused elements in horror films that are used here, especially at the climax scenes, making the movie quite predictable and tiresome at some parts. The ending is not very good.Well, I can say that The Strangers did not fail to terrify me, at least for a while. But it's not really a memorable one. Try watching this in the dark at 2 am.