This week we review and discuss The Strangers - Chapter 2, a slasher horror movie directed by Renny Harlin and starring Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso and Ema Horvath, about Maya, the survivor of Chapter 1, being stalked by the Strangers to finish the job.
We talk about why this movie didn't work for us as a slasher movie, how it is a series of cliches strung together to full its runtime without any creativity or intention and how easy it would have been to build on the premise of the Strangers to do something more interesting, the nature of suspense in movies and how how the Final Girl trope works in a cast with a single character, why the Strangers remakes are indistinguishable from a practical joke, and much more.
Also check out our reviews of The Strangers Chapter 1:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QhEvLQDJTRvqJSRoaqnxP
And our review of the original The Strangers from 2008:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6euIp0uzbixlgdGLtfUZKW
Other horror movie reviews:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5nEzAuLhmPeQVt6eJGStPn
0:00 Intro
0:18 Movie Recommendations (Gen V Season 2, To Kill A Monkey, The Fall Guy)
04:04 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
12:51 Spoiler Discussion
54:36 Conclusion & Ratings
