Season 1: Episode 10 - SPECIAL EPISODE: The Strangers (2008)

The Strangers written and directed by Bryan Bertino is tells the perceived safety of pastoral life and explores stranger on stranger violence.  Taken its cue from the Manson murders of 1969 and a series of break-ins that occurred in his neighbourhood as a child, Bertino filmed a thriller that questions ones safety in their own home. 

 

Starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman play the couple whom seem to have stepped out of an Ingmar Bergman film which ultimately branding the film as naturalistic domestic horror.  It also gives a nod to undermining the notion that rural America is more dangerous that the suburbs and city living creating a provincial violence within the confines of its setting. 

 

The film is loosely based on a true story which takes its nod from the Manson Tate Murders and The Keddie Cabin Murders of 1981.  The sequel, The Strangers:  Prey at Night will be released in March 2018. 

 

Opening Credits; Welcome/Introductions (1.24); Spinning Off (1.40); Strange Encounters (2.00); Commercial (9.80); Film Trailer (10.14); Commercial (12.80); What’s the Plot (12.50); Critiquing the Spin (13.25); Closing Credits (1:00.49)

 

Opening Credits – Let the Games Begin – from the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Soundtrack, music composed and arranged by Stu Phillips

 

Closing Credits – Let’s Kill Tonight – from the album Virtues and Vices by Panic at the Disco

 

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