Back in 2008, when Bryan Bertino's original The Strangers was released, horror was still in the midst of a wave of dank, hopeless nihilism. Throughout the 2000s – the time of so-called “torture porn” – protagonists in horror movies were frequently made to suffer deeply, often randomly and at the hands of cruel, faceless sadists whose cold bloodlust could never be properly sated. The ultimate dark purpose of the trio of masked home invaders in The Strangers was summed up in that film's tagline: “Because you were home.”
That same trio of masked assailants have now returned for Johannes Roberts' decade-later follow-up The Strangers: Prey at Night -- a taut, scary, and thankfully less dour sequel which focuses more on emotionally cathartic John Carpenter-like cinematic style, and much less on the mechanics of pain and the inevitability of moral emptiness. The thematic shift from a general pessimism to frightening, death-twinged thrills is a welcome step up.
from IGN Reviews http://ift.tt/2oSkAFF
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