hey, Scott Speedman always gives a solid performance. he was good on "Felicity," back in the day.

Some were cheap, while others were not.

I liked the movie a lot. Thought it built tension really good, both with pace and music. I'm sick and tired of these cookie-cutter "this is why the crazy guy's crazy" storylines and the Eli Roth torture-horror-porn shit being produced nowadays...gore doesn't necessarily equate to "scary", and this movie proves that.

That may be well and good but his "credibility" is not the reason the movie is doing well as the person I quoted said was likely the case.

Being that I am a reclusive nut who absolutely hates to do anything that will involve a large crowd, I wanted to see this movie and my wife convinced me and dragged me off to it last night. I was not dissapointed. It was great. We got there and the theatre was jam packed so we had to sit on the front row, which absolutely sucked!!! But other than that, I thought the movie was well done. The crowd really dug into it with some screams and shrieks. Some of it was predictable, but it didn't take away from the effect.

Now I'm just waiting for The Dark Knight!!!

Lines like that made the movie for me. Just a true creepy factor .

realy loved it was well done will pick it up on dvd !

If "solid performance" means unable to effectively emote anything other than a singular blank emotion and a monotone lisp, his career has certainly been solid. That said, The Strangers, while predictable and cliched, was very tense. There were "jump scares" aplenty that were very effective and not what I would call "cheap scares" (I reserve that for cats jumping out in lieu of the killer and trash cans falling over and causing a startling noise). I came out of the theater pleasantly surprised.

I agree. Watching Felicity and his other films over the years I am surprised that Speedman gets more work than his costar of Felicity, Scott Foley, who was always much better.

This current movie is getting horrible reviews. I think I will wait until DVD.

Was there ever a slasher film that got great reviews? :question:

The movie had me on the edge of my seat. I was able to overlook many flaws like Speedman's blank acting because it was so tense. The scene were was one of the scariest that I had seen in quite some time. I was pretty much scared stiff. Good times.

My only fault with it was that it didn't end a few minutes earlier. I think that I wish it hadn't ended on a bad note, but there were so many good notes before that I am willing to let it slide and call the movie a big success.

Speedman was a puss.

this movie was the suckiest pile of suck that ever sucked...

and what REALLY sucks, is it could have been something really cool if it were in the hands of someone with real talent and creativity...

I'm curious about something that no one has mentioned yet...

I'm torn on this one. I think it does a great job of establishing character and mood early in the film. But once

you touched on a few of the things that were so mindlessly inane that it blew the whole film...

what pisses me off really, is if the writer/director had possessed a >100 IQ this could have been a good horror movie...

the setup of the suspense was very well done... it wasn't going to win any oscars but i was with, and enjoying, the film, and the whole thing was developing well... the 'surprise' scare scenes worked, the masks and the whole 'thing' of 'The Strangers' worked... then suddenly it becomes like almost a self-parody... like a sarcastic self-parody exposition scene in 'Scream' or something... like a skit...

and it just kept getting more and more stupid till i heard people laughing in the theatre at two 'plot development' points...

then it comes back to a pretty damn effective final scene... and could have ended well... but they blew that too, by having the out of place ending mentioned above... almost like "see we thought this up at the last second so we can justify a sequel" or something...

suckfest...

One thing I found weird...

I feel like theres been a lot of scary movies lately where

My only complaint was.



Other than that, I loved the film.

I'm with the majority here. Very suspenseful, well-made film until the friend shows up, then it turns into a laundry list of every cliched moment from every other horror movie ever made, with characters making the most boneheaded and plot-convenient decisions possible, almost to the point of self-parody.

I'm extremely disappointed.

Your friend was right.

The one negative that I keep telling friends is the part where

The dvd talk review is really harsh. Wow.