A horror sequel that seemed to get alot of flack in 2018 was The Strangers: Prey At Night, the follow up to the popular 2008 horror thriller The Strangers. This time around we have a lesser known cast including new actors in the role of the three masked killers from the first film. The question is...does the film really deserve the awful ratings it was given last year? or is there some good the find in the film?
The film follows a family, Dad Mike (Martin Henderson - Grey's Anatomy), mum Cindy (Christina Hendricks - The Neon Demon), Son Luke (Lewis Pullman - Battle of the Sexes) and daughter Kinsey (Bailee Madison - The Good Witch) as they have to stay over at an uncles Trailer Park on the way to take Kinsey to a private school. What they do not realise is waiting for them are three masked psychopaths looking to play a very twisted game of knock down ginger.
While this sequel maybe doesn't really live up to the first film, and possibly 9 years late to the party, Prey At Night is your typical 80's style slasher movie fair, but while some people think this may be the films downfall I actually loved it. i'm a sucker for a slasher and compared to alot of the modern slashers Prey At Night used the classic 80's tropes and used them well. Yeah okay so there is nothing majorly new in the film and yes most of the cast (aside from Bailee Madison's Kinsley, who I actually thought had the strongest performance overall) were pretty bland this is the norm in this kind of subgenre film.
The film follows a family, Dad Mike (Martin Henderson - Grey's Anatomy), mum Cindy (Christina Hendricks - The Neon Demon), Son Luke (Lewis Pullman - Battle of the Sexes) and daughter Kinsey (Bailee Madison - The Good Witch) as they have to stay over at an uncles Trailer Park on the way to take Kinsey to a private school. What they do not realise is waiting for them are three masked psychopaths looking to play a very twisted game of knock down ginger.
While this sequel maybe doesn't really live up to the first film, and possibly 9 years late to the party, Prey At Night is your typical 80's style slasher movie fair, but while some people think this may be the films downfall I actually loved it. i'm a sucker for a slasher and compared to alot of the modern slashers Prey At Night used the classic 80's tropes and used them well. Yeah okay so there is nothing majorly new in the film and yes most of the cast (aside from Bailee Madison's Kinsley, who I actually thought had the strongest performance overall) were pretty bland this is the norm in this kind of subgenre film.
When it comes to your villains of the piece they swapped up the creepy with a more stalk and slash style which was a little disappointing. We seemed to jump straight into killing the family instead of the tense home invasion tease them make them scared route which made them so liked in the first film. On saying that though these three psychos are out to be brutal. There is a great line in the final half where Kinsey asks Dollface (Emma Bellomy - Before The Dark) why she is doing this and the reply is just 'Why Not'. These killers don't care and this is why the brutality is more interesting.
Will this film win any awards? No but it doesn't take away the fun of it. It was a good running time length, didn't clock watch so I would definitely suggest giving this a try
Will this film win any awards? No but it doesn't take away the fun of it. It was a good running time length, didn't clock watch so I would definitely suggest giving this a try
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