From the previews, The Strangers looked like a horror film that would be slightly different from the others, but I was mistaken.
Despite Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler's attractiveness, this movie really has nothing more to offer than a couple of scares now and again.
While watching the previews, I wasn't really sure who the Strangers were and why they were disturbing the main characters, but by the end of the movie, I felt just as clueless as when I started watching the movie from the beginning.
Speedman and Tyler play couple James Hoyt and Kristen McKay who go up to James' vacation home after a friend's wedding reception to have a "romantic getaway" that isn't quite so romantic. When Strangers invade their home, Kristen and James have to struggle to stay alive.
It sounds really interesting when described, but honestly all that occurs in the movie is what the critics have been describing. The whole movie revolves around Kristen and James. They aren't speaking to each other because Kristen didn't accept James' proposal and it all goes down hill from there.
filmed from the perspective of Kristen and James, not the killers.
The audience only knows what the two main characters in the movie
knows, which isn't a whole lot - and that to me is what makes the
film scary. If anything, I think that the movie delving into the
killers being a bored bunch of kids terrorizing a couple for fun
(at least that was the impression I had at the end of the movie)
would truly have made the movie bad, and would've lessened the
whole horror effect.