The Strangers: Chapter 1: Review

 A frightening and intense film that kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the whole movie.

The story line in this movie was simple, but so effective. It also worked at making me feel very sympathetic for the 2 main characters. The story line, while also feeling like the first film in a good way, has a lot of mystery surrounding it also, which I will cover later. 

The acting was very good. Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez gave very convincing performances. You felt so bad for them. I am very curious to see how Madelaine does in a future sequel, as I have a gut feeling I know where this is going.

The suspense and atmosphere of this movie was so good. There were about 2 jump scares that got me pretty good. A film hasn't scared me this good in years, and it scared me to the point of keeping up at night, and getting spooked by any noise I heard. Loved the camera work in a lot of the scenes also.

I am really looking forward to seeing where a sequel goes from here. I have a theory that the Strangers are members of the town that we encountered early in the film. That town just looked evil, and there was a reason the Strangers didn't take their masks off in this film. From the looks of it, we have encountered these people before, and we would have recognized them immediately. 

I hope that because Maya is coming back in the sequels, she will get her revenge on the Strangers. That's what I was hoping the last film that came out was going to cover. I really wanted to see Liv Tyler's character get her revenge on them, and hopefully they will do that with the sequels. Please don't mess this up!

Out of 4 stars I would give it...

4 out of 4 stars