Last year, Lionsgate and director Renny Harlin delivered one of the worst-received horror movies of 2024 with The Strangers: Chapter 1, which attempted to relaunch the Strangers franchise with the ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

Renny Harlin’s latest contribution to the masked-killer horror series is generous in serving up suspense and jolts, if stingy with any fresh ideas. The arrival of Harlin’s “Chapter 1” last May raised ...

For more than a year now I’ve had a great swell of pity for “The Strangers.” Not the homicidal maniacs, the film about the homicidal maniacs. The original horror classic “The Strangers” and its ...

2008’s The Strangers is one of the most simple and straightforward horror films a person could conceive. It’s just two people being terrorized in a house by three masked strangers for 90 minutes until ...

The Strangers – Chapter 2 is a movie built on promises. The first film in this pre-planned trilogy adapted from Bryan Bertino’s original 2008 classic functioned largely as a re-staging, a stable but ...

The most ominous thing about 2024’s The Strangers: Chapter 1 was the implication behind the two words after that colon. Veteran director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Deep Blue Sea) agreed not just to ...

To give a summary of what little story exists here: the film takes place the day after the events of the last movie, wherein Maya (Madelaine Petsch) survived a brutal attack from a trio of masked ...

The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Renny Harlin, written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland and starring Madelaine Petsch, Ema Horvath, Matus Lajcak, Brooke Lena Johnson ...