The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
Dir. Johannes Roberts Do you ever find yourself defending a movie in your own head as you’re watching it because you dearly want it to be better or more enjoyable than it actually is? It’s such a frustrating experience to watch a good movie that just shy of great, or bad movie that’s just shy of being enjoyably bad. In the case of The Strangers: Prey at Night, its a kind-of-ok, but mostly unengaging movie with a couple fun sequences, solid cinematography, and a lot of lazy writing. Now I have never seen The Strangers (2008). It never really interested me, but from what I understand it’s mostly about a whole buncha nothing happening while spooky mask people creep in the background for the benefit of the audience. So when it was announced that we’d be getting a sequel, I gave no shits until the first trailer was released featuring Tiffany’s cover of Tommy James and The Shondells’ I Think We’re Alone Now . If there’s anything I’m a sucker for, it’s slasher style carnage se...