Scary Enough to Make You...GIGGLE!

WHEN WILL HOLLYWOOD LEARN THAT CHURNING OUT 57 of THIS KIND of MOVIE EVERY YEAR, YEAR-AFTER-YEAR, ONLY RESULTS in HALF of the DVDs in the REMAINDER BINS at WAL-MART BEING HORROR MOVIES?? AND THIS ONE LOOKS ALMOST AS SCARY AS...THE LAST FAILED HORROR ATTEMPT...

FROM a FIRST-TIME DIRECTOR WHOSE ONLY PREVIOUS CREDITS ARE MINOR ROLES in TWO FORGOTTEN FILMS (and DOUBLING AS a GAFFER ON ONE of THEM) THE STRANGERS PRESENTS ITSELF as a CLEVER, LOW-BUDGET SHRIEK-FEST. BUT EARLY WORD-of-MOUTH (and the STILL BELOW) BELY THAT CLAIM.

NOW IT's YOUR TURN to SHRIEK RIGHT BACK!!

AND, NO, WE WON'T INSIST THAT YOU PUT A FLOUR SACK OVER YOUR HEAD WHILE YOU POST...

HOSTAGE HUSBAND: "No, Mr. Scarecrow, I don't think Petunia Pig and Betty Boop are reasonable replacements for the Tin Man and Cowardly Lion..."

I thumbed through the future releases at Box Office Mojo, and noticed there was far, far fewer horror films being released.  At this point, there's barely enough horror films being released, forget being bad enough, between now and December 31st to justify a Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie category. 

Using "horror" loosely, we have coming up:
The Strangers
Stuck
Mother of Tears
The Happening
Hellboy II
Baghead
Mirrors
Blindness (Omega Man and I Am Legend with a different affliction)
Quarantine
Saw V

Not counting the upcoming The Strangers and The Happening, we are currently considering five horror films:
One Missed Call
The Eye
Shutter
The Ruins
Prom Night (2008)

Could the industry have curtailed horror movies (after the poor quality of the last few years, we could only hope), or might they be waiting until horror movies are in the can before announcing their release dates? 

regurgitate
verb
1.	pour or rush back
2.	feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food
3.	repeat after memorization
4.	eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

I feel this word effectively illustrates the making of this feature and the experience of viewing it.

After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.

I was doubtful yet excited to see this movie. In the end, this movie doesn't really do it for me. It's just really disappointing because the trailer for the film makes it to be something much more thrilling and suspenseful. I found the pacing to be so slow that this movie bored me to tears. I found the tone of the film to be so dull that there were barely any scares to keep me interested. I found the atmosphere of the movie to be so boring and quiet that--you get what I mean.

Some clichés are still here, although not a lot. The strangers are like fast traveling ghosts who can appear in a scene and disappear in a split second. Yeah, that annoyed me quite a bit. However, I feel sympathy towards the protagonists. This film has much better character development than most. Let me add this: Barely anything happens in this hour and a half film. That's the biggest complaint coming from me. Yeah, I'm exaggerating but, I kid you not, the ball does not get rolling in this movie at all.

What did I like about the movie? Probably the first thirty or so minutes. Why? It was promising. That's until I realized right after that, the plot went nowhere. Seriously, think of the strangers banging and messing the protagonist's minds for the first half of the film. In the next half, think of people running, hiding, screaming...the movie was spinning its wheels after that.

What I hope would be an at least decent, scary film turned out to be so boring and uninteresting that I was disappointed. The performances were decent, at best. Overall, this film is not worth your time. Horror fans may be severely disappointed and the film is just not suspenseful nor scary. The best you can get out of this movie is its trailer. 5/10

I saw this movie last weekend. Thought it sucked...badly. Not scary at all.

To be honest, I haven't watched many other recent horror flicks, But compared to the classic movies, it was dumb. I wasn't scared at all -- it was just flat-out boring.

Every single movie that's made has a 50/50 chance of being considered either a success or failure -- not just movies of horror genre. Although, horror movies do get the blunt end of bad critical reviews, since all they really are about is how over-the-top their violence can be. Most horror movies these days are about pushing the envelope on how much gore can be shown on screen, rather than how to scare people. 

Originally posted by moviewizguy You'll either love it or hate it. On IMDb, every day, there's at least one "It's so scary!" thread and another "Oh, God! This movie is so horrible!" thread. You have a 50/50 chance. Are you willing to risk it?

Say with it what you will, I found it to be uncannily skilled at building
suspense. It was so relentless in its terror and violence that I found
myself praying for the sake of the victims, as the movie is careful to make
these characters realistic and commiserative. Granted, it uses some of the
old cliches, but I thought the movie was well directed enough to make me
care that these people are in danger. It does have some other flaws, I
think that showing the boy's 911 calls at the beginning of the movie and
not the end was a huge mistake and the opening narration that "the
brutal events that took place are not entirely known" gives the audience
the implication that the victims did not survive. Other than that, I thought
the movie was so clever at maintaining the eerie creepiness that I think
this is one of the better horror movies of the year, especially in the year of
Prom Night and The Happening.