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Capone Recommends Hanging Out With THE STRANGERS!!

1st??? by cupp555	May 30th, 2008 10:38:46 AM
Finally???
man, if only I hadn't taken time to read the article by fanboy71	May 30th, 2008 10:42:00 AM
I could have had my first first.
I'm sick of being burned by shit horror films by TheLastCleric	May 30th, 2008 10:43:03 AM
I'll proably catch this film soon but I hope it's actually decent and not another shitfest that is neither scary nor interesting. Funny Games was an interesting film but at the same time I can't say it was all that profound, though it did manage to be tense. I haven't seen THEM yet so maybe I'll nab it as well but consider me skeptical regarding this one until I see it. It looks average. I hope I'm wrong.
I watched the trailer to this and couldn't help thinking by fanboy71	May 30th, 2008 10:45:22 AM
If that happened at my house those people would be DRT! (Dead Right There) I guess it wouldn't make for a very long movie if the man of the house pulled out a assault rifle and mowed down the pricks trying to fuck with them though.
Needs more Steve Martin. by Diagnostic	May 30th, 2008 10:51:28 AM
Or they all pull off there masks and it is guys from Ocean's 13.
Yeah, fanboy71. by Diagnostic	May 30th, 2008 10:53:49 AM
This movie could have learned something from Maculey Culkin.
Sooooo by Series7	May 30th, 2008 10:55:56 AM
How different is this from THEM? Besides the masks instead of hoodies?
Isn't this a THEM remake? by Unlabled	May 30th, 2008 10:57:45 AM
I thought they were Americanizing it. Is this the film?
REMAKE ! by spyro	May 30th, 2008 10:59:02 AM
So its basically a remake of 'Ils' [Them] then ? Highly recommend the French version. 'Inside' is another French thriller/horror which is pretty terrifying. Will probably watch this 'Strangers' anyway, just so i can complain that its not as good as the original...
say it once i'll say it again by chainsaw1974	May 30th, 2008 10:59:54 AM
nothing more creepy then people in store bought/hand made mask's remind's me of a great 1970's low budget horror flick.hopefully go this weekend!
I think this LOOKS good . . . by Nice Marmot	May 30th, 2008 11:00:41 AM
. . . or at least on a higher level than all the other crap horror thrown our way these days. BUT, what's w/ the run time? It's not even an hour and a half. The admission should be reduced for that. Maybe they should play a short beforehand. How bout that killer doll from Trilogy of Terror or something?
One of the best trailers I've ever seen by Drunken Rage	May 30th, 2008 11:01:47 AM
I'll be there this weekend.
THE STRANGERS recommend hanging out with Capone! by thebearovingian	May 30th, 2008 11:07:36 AM
They say he keeps his home unlocked, his pets crated up, all rooms nice and tidy, and a fully stocked fridge and pantry. Oh yeah... there's a pool out back.
how do they by snapple_ladys_lazy_eye	May 30th, 2008 11:10:49 AM
keep that busted tee bitch's nipple hard constantly?
Not On Topic - LITTLE RED X and AICN by Rando Calrisian	May 30th, 2008 11:16:50 AM
There seem to be more and more of these unwelcome little red X's inplace of pictures at AICN. It's been going on for a while, and was most notable in the recent Watchmen posting, but can All Y'all at AICN figure out how to post pictures so that Internet Explorer can show them? IE is only the most used web browser in the world. Yeah, yeah... buy a mac or use another web browser to visit AICN. Come on Harry and Co. Nealrly all of your avatars are little red X's! Even your animations show red X's sometimes. Bitching complete. End of Line.
I'm so excited by this ... then I see the dread words LIV TYLER by JackRabbitSlim	May 30th, 2008 11:17:24 AM
She is a vampire, sucking the pulsing lifeblood out of everything nearby, and not in a sexy-as-fuck-Vampyros-Lesbos way but in that atrocious acting kinda way. Shouldn't she be off giving her junkie daddy 3 sickly-sweet methadone shots a day or burning pictures of Royston Langdon or anything other than infecting innocent pieces of celluloid?
I love Bryan Bertino's work... by Bones	May 30th, 2008 11:20:07 AM
Excellent Figure Skater.
Good to hear they still make scary movies. by Stereotypical Evil Archer	May 30th, 2008 11:24:02 AM

Only problem I have with killers who wear masks by JackRabbitSlim	May 30th, 2008 11:25:25 AM
is I have this bizarre image of them at home practicing in their mask when there's a knock on the door and, forgetting to remove the head gear, is suddenly faced with the embarrassing situation of trying to explain to the Fed Ex guy exactly what the fuck he's doing.
The most dangerous people on Earth by johnnyangel	May 30th, 2008 11:54:37 AM
Are white businessmen. White businessmen are responsible for almost all murders that take place in the US. Don't take my word for it. Just watch a season of CSI or Law and Order.
contemporary villians = bored suburbanites = wtf? by juice willis	May 30th, 2008 11:57:56 AM
Me and my ol' lady fecently moved back to the U.S. after having spent the last two years living in a island nation in the west indies where the per capita homicide rate is consistently the highest in the western hemisphere. Crime was/is rampant and police corruption blatant. Let some little bored suburban douchebags fuck with a couple like me and mine in this type of fashion. They'd perish to the sound of their own limbs being hacked to pieces by machete and the smell of blood and mid-grade ganja in the air. Rodriquez could direct the screen-adaption: "Strangers come de wrong house, boi"
Which is scarier by Tony Is A Little Boy	May 30th, 2008 11:59:30 AM
this or Sex and the City?
DGDB by Rando Calrisian	May 30th, 2008 12:07:01 PM
I will try out Firefox, but the point is, I shouldn't have to. I'm all for trying a new browser, but I'm not the only guy out there that see's little red X's everywhere I go on AICN. But I just downloaded Firefox, so I'll let you know what I think.
Sorry by lantern48	May 30th, 2008 12:13:52 PM
All the Rings and Grudges and Eyes and Signals, have killed my love of horror movies. I just can't watch them anymore.
Sex with Strangers in the City by juice willis	May 30th, 2008 12:24:26 PM

THEM is a crappy, crappy movie by thenatureboy	May 30th, 2008 12:37:43 PM
DerLang, leave that DVD in the package. It has absolutely no tension, the guy acts like no guy would and the ending is retarded.
Not a remake of "Them" by Kammich	May 30th, 2008 12:39:14 PM
Despite the obvious similarities, "The Strangers" is not an American re-make of "Ils/Them." Bryan Bertino is said to have finished the script over 2 years prior to "Them" being released. It's just a popular formula of the horror genre that seems to be seeing a resurrection in this current state of paranoia where every US citizen thinks their next door neighbor is either a terrorist, a homicidal maniac, or a pedophile. Or a homicidal terrorist maniac pedophile.
Why couldn't Speedman and Tyler's characters... by Kid Z	May 30th, 2008 12:51:19 PM
...just go to the garage, get in their car and drive off? Or hell, call the cops? Oh yeah, I'm sure the car was tampered with and the phone lines were cut (like neither one of them would have cells). Lame.
'Them' was shite so ill take this review as such by Spikey	May 30th, 2008 01:03:18 PM
Truly sick of slow-burn tension building horror films with 20 page scripts. If you have no dialogue then you had better be an incredibly damned good director to make a 90 second shot of someone walking up a dark hallway and unlocking a door interesting or supenseful. Followed with sitting on the couch reading a book for 2 minutes, getting up to close the window. The french 'Inside' was the only good film of this style that ive seen in the last 5 years because it actually had a script and progressive plot. Plus it was sick as fuk.
I can no lonnger trust Capone by Bass Bastardson	May 30th, 2008 01:35:06 PM
After discovering that he has watched every episode of Sex and the City. Seriously. From now on everything he writes is suspect.
[REC] restored my faith in good horror. by scudd	May 30th, 2008 01:44:02 PM
This looks to continue the trend. Looking forward to it.
I believe the film is set in the 70's by Shepard Wong	May 30th, 2008 01:45:05 PM
thus eliminating the cell phone issue.
Been awaiting this... by PushTheButton	May 30th, 2008 01:45:10 PM
The trailers lead me to believe the director is very much on love with the original Halloween. The stalking and creeping in and out of the shadows. I love that. Also, the killers having no motivation at all. Awesome scary stuff. I wonder and hope that this film doesn't urn to torture porn and just does more Texas Chainsaw crap when the strangers confront the couple face to face on the couch.
also, yeah, Them sucked by PushTheButton	May 30th, 2008 01:46:42 PM
No way those brats would get such a calculated jump on that couple. It was like Solid Snake was terrorizing them.
Cells, Guns, etc by HornOrSilk	May 30th, 2008 01:53:06 PM
All are explained if you watch this film. SPOILERS AHEAD (as if you didn't know all of this): 1) getting in a car gets you rammed by a truck 2)shotgun isn't as good if you are not used to shooting 3) cell phone batteries can die and 4) cell phones can be tampered with 5) and when you shoot someone, make sure you know who you are shooting because 6) if you don't, you might not want to shoot again.
Kammich by Series7	May 30th, 2008 02:21:58 PM
Hey I saw that you read IMDB as well. But since both Them and Strangers say, based on real life events are they both based on the same event? I remember Them talking about the real crime a little at the end and in the making of. Plus Olivia Bonamy > then Getting to Rehab waaaayyyy too late in life's Baby.
VACANCY by DeCypher44	May 30th, 2008 02:26:24 PM
Capone, that sounded like you were describing "Vacancy". A couple fighting. Knocks at the door. Then knocks from all over. Invasion. Exactly the same!!!
Seeing The Movie Will Answer My Question... by Buzz Maverik	May 30th, 2008 03:31:43 PM
...Y' see, Mrs. Buzz and I saw the previews before some film we saw. She asked me what I would do if the events in the trailer happened to us. "Shoot 'em dead," I replied, which made the guy in front of us, who was about to tell us to shut up, turn back toward the screen. "What if you couldn't reach your gun?" my wife asked. Now, that's not too likely if you know me at all, but it could happen. "I guess I'd beat them up." "All three of them? When they have knives and axes?" "Well, if I was in the kitchen, we've got some big iron pots. In the dining room, one of our chairs could probably wipe out all three of them. In the living room, I'd got fireplace poker like Michael Keaton in BATMAN. How many baseball bats do the kids have now?" So my question is, why didn't the guy (and I guess Liv, if we're going to be all feminist about it, but in my experience, if yer in danger, chick's tend to want to hold onto your arm which impedes you from returning the danger to your dangerizer)just go Neandrathal on 'em?
the cell phones by SpawnofAchilles	May 30th, 2008 03:34:06 PM
are tossed in the fire in the house, its in the trailer noobs, so obviously not the 70's and that answers that question, the car was probably disabled or some such
A remake of Them? by Nasty In The Pasty	May 30th, 2008 04:16:42 PM
I don't see any giant ants...
Them sucked. by F-1000	May 30th, 2008 04:36:00 PM
It sucked hard. There was entirely no tension in that movie. It seemed like it wanted to shoot for a mix of supernatural tension and also wanted to be Haute Tension. But it sucked. On top of the complete utter lack of tension the characters were the epitome of one dimensional. You didn't give two shits about the stupid French chick or her lazy as fuck husband. The super low budget didn't help either. Her husband was such a pussy, especially when he (SPOILER) gets his hands smashed and kicked off the ladder by like a six year old child and dies. Really? You mean you couldn't take your hands being stomped on by like a 45 pound kid? Seriously my siblings at ages 10 and 12 have dolled out harsher beatings that I've laughed off, and I was younger and smaller than them. He also could've just freakin gone down a rung and survived. That's the kind of shit movie THEM was.
I think I will pass on this one. by mrfan	May 30th, 2008 04:53:56 PM
But thanks for the review. Appreciate it.
So is this like a movie by kabong	May 30th, 2008 05:11:18 PM
but without the movie parts?
Buzz Maverick by Jubba	May 30th, 2008 05:23:48 PM
Some spoilers...The guy at first thinks they can be reasoned with. Doesn't know how many there are. Thinks they can escape instead of fighting. Then he has a good plan and carries it out...would have totally worked if not for a plot twist...puts him into a rage and goes on the hunt..the baddies are spread out in the woods in the dark and he doesn't know where they all are. You can't snake up on 3 people at once...he does a pretty good job at trying everything you could think of to escape, attack, or survive. He just doesn't have the upper hand.
Inside by skimn	May 30th, 2008 06:46:52 PM
and High Tension proves to me that the French like their horror films with very sharp utensils and blood filled flesh. Ouch!
Oh God! by skimn	May 30th, 2008 06:56:16 PM
That Mutt action figure staring me in the face is the scariest thing I've seen in years. Can't even portray bad-ass in plastic!!
PLANT! by ebonic_plague	May 30th, 2008 08:11:43 PM
So this is Funny Games played straight, but with masks? No thanks, I have better uses for $10. I'm amazed that movie theaters are still in business.
Jesus, another nihilistic horror movie by Lyghthouse	May 30th, 2008 08:15:32 PM
Look, I'm not saying no one should make these horror movies anymore, but for the love of god, do they make any good horror movies that don't leave you feeling complete despair by the end of the film? The original Halloween scared the hell out of me, but I didn't leave feeling like I wanted to kill myself. I had a good time. I don't understand how this horror has become so popular.
ITS ONLY 77 MINUTES LONG? = RENT. by alice 13	May 30th, 2008 08:18:01 PM
takes me too long to go watch a 77 minute movie in a theater.
Say what you like about the tenets of Nightmare on Elm St... by ebonic_plague	May 30th, 2008 08:19:23 PM
...at least Freddy had an ethos.
Is Liv naked? by Dazzler69	May 30th, 2008 08:29:11 PM
Then I am there. I can't wait for her in Hulk.
Maybe it would be better if... by PowerRing	May 30th, 2008 08:58:08 PM
Liv Tyler used her vagina dentata against them.
Saw it today...very disappointing after this review. by chains	May 30th, 2008 09:50:16 PM
I've been looking at waiting for a movie that actually scares me for years. This didn't scare me at all. I was actually pleasantly surprised that I cared about the two leads in the first half hour, but the rest of it was just cliched "scares" and nonsense. The ending was lousy, too. Another horror disappointment.
Its official: Capone watches shit movies. by Mike_D	May 30th, 2008 10:05:31 PM
nice.
At first glance by Silverglade	May 30th, 2008 10:12:31 PM
I thought it was a Scarecrow spin-off.
This movie... by Bruuce	May 30th, 2008 11:03:18 PM
Sucked!! The whole time I was watching this, I thought "Wow, I've seen all this before..." What is this guy smoking?
Did anyone actually see 'Funny games'? by jimmay	May 30th, 2008 11:04:49 PM
Because this sounds pretty similar. I was genuinely interested in 'games', but I've been burned by "horror" movies so many times, I almost never bother to see them in the theaters.
Escapism by shodan6672	May 30th, 2008 11:12:08 PM
Brunomac: So, because this film is not "escapism" it is less worthwhile than "Speed Racer"? You have to be kidding.
I hated this movie. It was total garbage. by grandlarseny	May 30th, 2008 11:34:59 PM
boring, slow, cheap "jump" scares that only work on idiots. don's see this crap
DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!! by Thot	May 31st, 2008 01:19:46 AM
*SPOILER: I was so pissed at the ending that I felt like someone had kicked me in the balls with a steel toed boot. They spend nearly the entire hour and twenty minutes making you care and fear for this charming/in-love couple only to shove their dismal, sad and tragic end right down your movie-going throat. After the immense Indy IV letdown, I'm taking a break (until Hulk, that is!!)
umm spoiler someone survives the attack. by thareign23	May 31st, 2008 01:36:54 AM
last scene of the movie implies someone survives. This is only a theatre date movie because after seeing it I doubt any of the scares will transfer . The gun plan was smart . The plan after that the outside plan not so much. Once that incident happened the rest was sort of like watching a snuff film. The lack of plot and the ridiculous bit effective way the strangers kept getting in the house from a section with no doors too they kept getting in.
fanboy71 by Fitzcarraldo2	May 31st, 2008 07:31:16 AM
I love the way you assocaite "man of the house" with owning a gun. If you're so habitually frightened that you keep an assault rifle then it pretty much disqualifies you from describing yourself as a "man".
Hey the poster does it! by weaponmentalarion	May 31st, 2008 08:48:55 AM
Strangers has one of the best posters for a movie yet. They could have a class about posters like that and why it works. I think it does a large part to help sell the movie. It's very creepy and very eery, and shocking actually. Cause this is a beautiful woman, and she's drenched in blood crawling on the floor obviously from something and for her life. It's really troubling poster. It makes me interested in watching the movie. Just for that alone.
I am Dr. Remulak by maxjohnson1971	May 31st, 2008 09:10:29 AM
I am Dr. Remulak
Stop the stereotypes!! by classyfredblassy	May 31st, 2008 09:13:32 AM
Every time I see a commercial on tv for a home alarm system, the intruder is always a clean cut white guy in a ski cap and black turtleneck. Stop the racism! No Justice, No Peace! Clean cut white guys in ski caps and black turtlenecks unite!!
A big point in movies like this... by GilbertRSmith	May 31st, 2008 10:57:36 AM
Is that the protagonists are generally mild mannered people, which is why the badguys can so easily take control. You wouldn't see a movie like this with gun toting hillbillies or hood thugs as the protagonists. The whole point is baddies intruding upon a safe, complacent existence.
CGI gophers = Face on HK by Motoko Kusanagi	May 31st, 2008 11:27:53 AM
= Flames on Optimus
Sweet Jesus In A Dumptruck... by alanmoore	May 31st, 2008 12:31:33 PM
I'm SO tired of these kinds of horror films. Way back in a certain other decade, horror was imaginative and fierce, unforgiving and way-cool, with villains who were both frightening and iconic, indelible in our memories and bad dreams. We used to have the likes of Jason, Freddy, Michael Meyers, and Pinhead. And now what've we got? Nothing but a bunch of random shitheads who torture random people in various ways ... for no real reason. All of the above "Greats" of horror villainy had specific motives, specific modus operandi, and specific choices in victims. Nowadays, its all just about some random fuckhead torturing some other random fuckhead, and I couldn't care less about either of said fuckheads. What few "imaginative" horror films we've had have been nothing but "The Ring," "The Grudge," and "Final Destination" just rehashed and rehashed, over and over. So c'mon Hollywood. I want REAL horror back, with REAL villains and REAL victims with some actual, thought-out reasoning thrown in there too, if you can get off your fat, overpaid asses and perhaps -- just perhaps -- give money to filmmakers who know what the fuck they're doing. Over and out.
Isn't this VACANCY? by WickedMonster	May 31st, 2008 04:33:13 PM
Pretty people, Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale (kinda looks like Liv Tyler, but Kate's sexier.) -check House/motel -check Crazy multiple people trying to kill pretty couple -check Screaming, trapdoors, mysterious entrances -check Someone needs to be sued for plagiarism
I loved VACANCY and this was even better by SmokeFilledTavern	May 31st, 2008 05:37:35 PM
a tense and terrific little nail-biter. It's well acted and well made.
Remake Motel Hell. by mrfan	May 31st, 2008 10:40:56 PM
That would be a good one.
"STRANGERS" = AMERICAN REMAKE OF "THEM" by The Marquis de Side 3	Jun 1st, 2008 12:01:42 AM
WATCH THE 2007 FOREIGN FILM "THEM". SAME EXACT PREMISE, BEAT BY BEAT, BUT WAAAAAY MORE COMPELLING, AND SCARY. HASN'T ANYONE CALLED FOUL ON "STRANGERS" RIPPING OFF FROM "THEM"?
so, the "scares" were "earned?" by hawggie	Jun 1st, 2008 02:23:48 AM
Only if you've never seen a "horror" movie before. The "scares" were cribbed from other movies. I predicted every minute of this. I jumped more at the high-pitched shrieking of the teeny-boppers three rows behind me than I did at each of these "scares."
NOT a THEM REMAKE by m_prevette	Jun 1st, 2008 08:01:31 AM
The facts don't support that. The Strangers screenplay was sold to Rogue Pictures in 2004. Writer was signed to direct in '06 and the film was completed in early '07. It was delayed in release for over a year. Strangers came first...and most likely, since the screenplay was used in writing competetions around '04, someone snagged a copy and THEM is likley a rip-off of The Strangers.
To M-Prevette... by The Marquis de Side 3	Jun 1st, 2008 08:49:53 AM
didn't know that. though it it interesting to observe how the French just make things more intense. Alexandre Aja, for example, along with films like "THEM" and "BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF". the french can really make things really freaky and scary =0)
to The Marquis de Side 3 by m_prevette	Jun 1st, 2008 04:43:05 PM
It's an odd coincidence though...in the back of my mind I wonder if someone at Rogue or Universal didn't cook the timeline a bit to dispel any cries of stealing the plot from "Them"?
"These killers aren't evil monsters" by Johnno	Jun 2nd, 2008 01:01:48 AM
Maybe you're going to have to reclarify that... I guess maybe you mean they're just plain CRAZY??? Anyway saw it tonight. It has its moments but I don't think anyone's missing anything...
i just need to know by bobbywatts	Jun 2nd, 2008 04:13:30 AM
from someone who has seen this piece of shit, is the hook the same as THEM? someone just post a little spoiler message for me will ya?
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