Review #83: The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
This review was originally written in October 2019. October Horror Movie Review #31: The Strangers: Prey at Night It took me a while to decide what I wanted to do on Halloween; I felt like it should be more special than the other days, but I couldn't figure out how. In the end I decided to just watch several movies- and Lisa requested that I write about this one. (It wasn't the best one I watched today; I would recommend Await Further Instructions if you haven't seen it. It's on Netflix.) The Strangers: Prey at Night is the (boringly-named) sequel to the home invasion slasher The Strangers, which I remember really liking when it came out. This one has a similar-enough premise- a family arrives at a vacation home out in the sticks and while there, a group of maniacs attempts to murder them all. Pretty thin premise, but the first at least changed things up a bit with the characters and their attempts to keep themselves safe; this one doesn't, really. Like so many sub-...