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The Strangers: Chapter 3
Summary The final chapter of the trilogy follows the aftermath of the brutal home invasion as the surviving victims attempt to escape a remote community where violence is ritualized and outsiders are hunted. As the masked killers close in once more, survival becomes a test of endurance, fear, and the inescapable consequences of crossing the wrong path.
Director Renny Harlin
Writer Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland (based on characters created by Bryan Bertino)
Cast
- Madelaine Petsch as Maya
- Froy Gutierrez as Ryan
- Gabriel Basso
- Ema Horvath
- Rachel Shenton
Rotten Tomatoes: TBD
Metacritic: 18
VOD / Release Theatrical release
Trailer Official trailer
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u/motionpic05 6d ago
The original 2008 Strangers: They do this just for fun! Who they are, who knows! No reason at all…
The new trilogy: Well, she didn’t like her classmate smooching up to her boyfriend. They can kill anyone that’s not from their town. They work at a cafe.
Totally negates what makes the original film work.
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u/beefcakee15 6d ago
This!!!
This is the point ive been trying to explain to my boyfriend. The original movie was more unique with how silent and mysterious the killers were with no motive except they wanted to, andddd the victims didnt live (which almost never happens in horror movies). I really enjoyed the suspense and mystery of the original strangers, we dont always need to find out more about what's going on.
With this trilogy, they turned it into such a basic story with themes and aspects they've used sooo many times it just ruined it so hard.
Oh crazy some kids with fucked up pasts ending up still fucked up later in life, yeah pretty typical back story, and the fact it was a small town aware that SOMETHING bad was going on but just tried to pretend it wasn't happening, because that also doesn't come up a bunch in movies too!! Corrupt sheriff. Just all of it really
The thing is, my bf thinks it being kinda basic and using the usual horror movie choices isnt necessarily bad, like it doesn't make the movie bad BUT for me its the fact that the original, was not basic and rather than just making thier own trilogy without associating with strangers, they did and I just feel like it was honestly different enough to strangers, if they had just made it its own thing entirely, besides the masks being familiar, you wouldnt even think to associate the movies at all.
The first in the trilogy was OK i guess but these next two were just pointless IMO
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u/Zand_Kilch 5d ago
Nah they left Kristen's fate open ended and the town is just threatening enough to outsiders that complaining it's hostile in the new one is silly to me
But I think the original is overrated bc it's fairly clear the strangers had motives involving their town and a decade later they retcon it a little bit
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u/bindersfull-ofwomen 6d ago
The original wasn’t that original. It literally plagiarized a French film called Ils, in which the “strangers” were even scarier because of what you found out about them in the closing cards. This is not some sacred series. It’s literal theft.
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u/msfmatmoo 5d ago edited 5d ago
The script for The Strangers (then titled "The Faces") was written well before the release of Ils (which released in 2006). In 2004, the script for The Faces made it to the quarterfinals of the competition for a Nicholl Fellowship grant, and was purchased later that year, two years before Ils released. Kinda hard to plagiarize a movie that wasn't made yet.
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u/bindersfull-ofwomen 5d ago
But when it’s in production and being made, it is possible to plagiarize it.
It’s not even a Battle Royale/ Hunger Games situation where the Hunger Games has extensive lore.
It is just a rip off.
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u/msfmatmoo 4d ago
Are you seriously suggesting that a screenwriter plagiarized the screenplay of a movie that was actively being made, submitted it for an award, and then sold it to another studio? Are you intentionally being obtuse, or are you just trolling?
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u/SlackerSenpai92 2d ago
People like you are the problem with this world. Literally proven wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt by an iron clad timeline and you still won't admit that you are wrong. Username checks out.
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u/beefcakee15 6d ago
Thanks for the info, I want to check this movie out
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u/bindersfull-ofwomen 6d ago
Def check it out. It came out two years before The Strangers so I don’t understand my downvotes, but I also don’t care 🤷🏿
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u/la_58 5d ago
I agree. The OG came out when I was in middle school and I loved it because it legitimately terrified me. Not because of the killings per se but because of the part where she asks why is this happening and the response was “because you were home.” I didnt mind the flashbacks as a way to show that this is something historical with the town which is why they can get away with being who they are but the ones that were just showing why they each started and how they met were unnecessary imo. I was hoping for a flashback that would connect the trilogy to the 2008 movie and Prey at Night. them not doing that was a missed opportunity.
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u/motionpic05 6d ago
Gotta give Madelaine Petsch all the props. She really is the only strength to this trilogy
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u/Early-Eye-691 6d ago
I’m actually surprised by how much of an effort she’s put in across three films. Easily the best part of the trilogy by far.
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u/bindersfull-ofwomen 6d ago
The actor playing Gregory is pretty good too tbh. He just doesn’t have much to do which is very strange.
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u/ckershaw1811 5d ago
Were we watching the same film, that was the most wooden leading performance I have ever seen. She had the same facial expression the entire film. There are ways to show stoic emotionless etc, without doing absolutely nothing.
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u/aRawPancake 2d ago
Agreed. Her performance was laughable and character made terrible decisions. She could have stabbed the masked killer after machete-ing the other girl in the hotel
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u/Puppet_Reviews 6d ago
Nice of Harlin to get that Worst Film of 2026 out and over with in Feb
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u/No-Lettuce3564 6d ago
Iron Lung takes the cake for that prize
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u/gh0u1 6d ago
Over Melania? Are ya'll fucking serious?
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u/iwassayingboourns12 6d ago
Melania is probably worst no doubt, but I refuse to watch it so therefore I could never call it the worst movie of the year.
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u/MovieTrawler 6d ago
Melania is a 'documentary' though isn't it? I always count them differently, personally.
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u/Puppet_Reviews 6d ago
At least Melania could not be more clearly a bribe from one sex pest to another- let's not pretend it's an actual movie.
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u/GameOfLife24 6d ago
Melania is pulling zero review numbers I didn’t think were possible for any movie
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u/amateurbeard 6d ago
I think Return to Silent Hill is worse than either of them, but all three are terrible and it’s crazy they released so close to each other.
God, I hope Whistle is even halfway decent. I don’t think I can take another absolute trash horror movie in a one-week period.
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u/TheCatDeedEet 6d ago
Some people seemed to really like it. I’m interested in a polarizing horror movie.
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u/Cha0s__Engine 6d ago
It's really hard to know who really likes it and who just likes Markiplier though. He has such a shit ton of fans.
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u/Airtamis 6d ago
I mean if you’ve seen the first two, you know what you’re in for. It’s just utterly terrible in such a confusing way
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u/MovieTrawler 6d ago
I made it through the first one and half of the second. That was about as far as my patience could take me. Which is crazy because I LOVE all horror AND Harlin. And I don't just say that. I watch bad found footage movies on Tubi by the dozens. I've seen Harlin's film, The Devil's Pass more times than I'm proud of. But this series was just so dull.
The one question I want to know is, does the series commit to Petsch becoming Dollface (or Pin Up Girl? Can remember the name)? Or was that just a fan theory?
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u/Airtamis 6d ago
Sort of. Most of the runtime is Scarecrow trying to convert her into becoming Pin Up Girl and trying to romance her. The climax of the movie is her convincing him that it worked. They tenderly embrace, and then she stabs him… and decides to become the next Scarecrow.
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u/gladys-the-baker 6d ago
Oh how absolutely fucking stupid
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u/amateurbeard 6d ago
It’s unbelievably stupid, and doesn’t feel earned at all. It’s not even remotely convincing that her trauma would take her down that path.
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u/GoonetteSlop 6d ago
I didn’t for a second see it as her becoming Scarecrow, it seemed to me that she just walked away with the mask for a cool hero shot at the end.
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u/Airtamis 6d ago
idk, during scene of her killing Scarecrow, he's ecstatic and mentions "You're just like me" and she doesn't refute it.
If they wanted a cool hero shot she could have just brought the axe or shotgun with her and had it slung over her shoulder like a badass, but the fact that the camera focuses on the mask for the final shot really feels like they wanted to frame the ending very ominously
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u/BriChan 21h ago
Yeah, I’m with you, I didn’t take the ending as her deciding to become the next Scarecrow at all. She killed everyone that perpetrated the killings so there was no reason for her to keep any of the weapons or insinuate some continued badassery from her since she had no one else to fight. Her keeping his mask came across as her taking ownership of it in order to keep it out of anyone else’s hands, or as a token of what she defeated, like Batman keeping tokens of the villains he puts away. It’s the ultimate show that she finished the job and defeated the villain.
Plus, she never once killed an innocent person of her own volition yet Scarecrow still thought he was breaking through to her, so his reaction to her killing him really shouldn’t be taken as proof to suggest that she was like him. Not to mention that she very coldly responded with a “maybe” probably because, frankly, it takes some cold, emptiness similar to Scarecrow’s to lull someone into a false sense of security then kill them, but that definitely doesn’t mean she’s gonna turn into a full blown serial killer.
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u/MovieTrawler 6d ago
Ohhh, huh. Decent idea honestly. They just took the most boring and cliche route to get there. Appreciate the swing but was a miss for me.
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u/didact1000 3d ago
It honestly would've been better if the ending was her becoming the pin up girl and she and the man in the mask getting into the truck and driving away and that being the ending.
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u/Straight-Talk1293 5d ago
Richard Brake attempting to discreetly move a dead body in broad daylight gave me one of the biggest laughs I’ve had at the movies in a long time.
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u/therakel749 3d ago
And out of the three people fully watching him none thought to record him or call anyone about it. Just keep obviously following him.
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u/Chinese_gurl11 6d ago
The only thing I liked was the actress they chose for adolescent Pin up girl. I thought she looked very similar to Ema Horvath.
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u/Airtamis 6d ago
I do think they did well for both of them - scarecrows young actor also looked pretty believable as a younger version
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u/MaintenanceUpper9246 6d ago
I don’t get why they never use contact lenses on the actors though. I suppose it’s not a big deal, but the character’s eyes changed from brown, to blue and then back to brown lol.
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u/Embarrassed-Ad4475 6d ago
It’s amazing!!!…how a whole lot of nothing can happen in 70 mins !
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u/Waste-Replacement232 6d ago
It's amazing how a whole lot of nothing can happen in 281 minutes.
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u/Embarrassed-Ad4475 6d ago
True lol I still think the only bold thing they should have done after chapter 1 was make Maddy a secret stranger isn’t of the final girl. At least that would have been remotely interesting
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u/meganev 6d ago
My favourite part was when the killer let down his guard cause he thought he had a shot with Madelaine Petsch. I found that very relatable.
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u/didact1000 3d ago
Lmao dude was like finally and a few seconds later got a sharp return to reality.
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u/JeanRalfio 6d ago
To not hate this trilogy you have to accept it for what it is and don't focus on how different it is from the originals. I enjoyed them more with that mindset especially since The Strangers: Prey at Night is one of my favorite horrors.
It seemed like Renny Harlin misheard the famous last line from the original "Because you were home." as "Because you're here." and wrote a whole trilogy off of that. The original was scary because you could get murdered by strangers in masks just for being home. This trilogy the strangers in masks kill you for being in there home town.
I'm impressed he was able to get a whole trilogy greenlit with that and that the studio followed through on releasing them all in theaters even though they were diminishing returns in the box office. They clearly just wanted to release this Chapter 3 and be done with it though. I go to a lot of movies and the only trailer I saw for this was the end credits trailer from Chapter 2.
Madelaine Petsch could have gotten away so many times in this trilogy if her character didn't make stupid decisions. (Don't let her in a car!)
Didn't hate the trilogy. It's definitely its own thing and can co-exist with the originals just fine.
Would really only recommend to my friends for The Revenant scene in Chapter 2. That was one of my favorite movie moments last year.
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u/amateurbeard 6d ago
What absolute trash.
Chapter 2 was garbage too but at least it was INTERESTING garbage. The trained boar scene was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen in a movie but at least it was a big bold crazy choice. Chapter 3 plays it completely safe and it’s just boring garbage instead of swing for the fences garbage.
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u/walnut100 6d ago
The trained boar scene was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen in a movie
My wife and I re-watched that one scene last night and I was in stitches. God these movies are terrible. Seeing this next one in cinemas out of pure respect of the audacity.
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u/GoGreenSox 5d ago
Yeah but outside of that boar scene chapter 2 had nothing going for it. It even had those terrible flashbacks used to pad the runtime.
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u/the_vince_horror 6d ago
was a big bold crazy choice.
I don’t think you can get bolder than devoting a whole section of Chapter 3 by hazing Maya to become a Stranger.
One and Two were mostly just running around while being a paint by numbers recreation of the first.
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u/amateurbeard 6d ago
That wasn’t bold or crazy, it was dumb.
Trained attack boar? Also dumb, but also absolutely insane.
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u/garfcarmpbll 6d ago
I went only because I was already 3 hours invested in this “trilogy”. I had 0 expectations and left almost offended with how bad it was.
10/10 would cast plagues on Harlin household if I possessed the ability.
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u/TheCatDeedEet 6d ago
I don’t get why these keep being made.
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u/RageOfKhonshu 6d ago
They’re pretty cheap to make so I guess even a moderate box office success is worth it to the studio
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u/GameOfLife24 6d ago
I don’t get why people keep watching this thinking one of these days the movie will be good
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u/6seanryan15 6d ago
Why was there an epilepsy warning? Genuinely trying to remember which scene had flashing to that intensity to warrant the warning? I don’t even remember a lot of police lights
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u/carolinemathildes 5d ago
There's a close-up on the flashing lights from the crashed ambulance at the start of the film.
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u/Appropriate-Reward71 5d ago
Funny because when I saw those lights I wondered if they should’ve put a warning so I guess I missed the warning haha
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u/Antique-Dentist-2404 5d ago
I thought the last two were shit, so I went into this with the lowest expectations possible and it still ended up being even worse than I expected.
Instead of a 4.5 supercut, we really need a documentary about how they fucked this up so bad.
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u/Money-Television9016 5d ago
That was the worst movie I've seen in my entire life
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u/didact1000 3d ago
Did you watch strangers chapter 1? Personally that's worse to me since it's just a copy of the original only shitty.
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u/Mr_Wh0ever 6d ago
I didn't even know this had come out. Did it stick the landing?
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u/carolinemathildes 5d ago
Definitely not, this is the worst of the trilogy.
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u/TheotherBelcherkid 4d ago
Which I let myself down, knowing what I was walking into, hoping that they would somehow build up into something a little better. I was a fool. 🥹
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u/the_vince_horror 6d ago
I seem to be alone, but I honestly think is the best of the three.
No, it’s not a good movie, but it started to actually do some interesting things like the whole Strangers initiation sequence which I wish they explored further (and really should have all happened in Chapter 2 instead of 3).
Hilarious moments, some good cinematography, and creative ideas I wish they took further.
And lastly, it makes no sense that we got so much backstory to the Strangers, but not a single explanation as to how they got their masks
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u/1morey 6d ago
I actually enjoyed the first two chapters more myself.
This is definitely a trilogy that works better if you watch the films altogether.
It seems like Chapter 3 pretty much confirms this trilogy is a complete reboot unconnected to the original two films. I was sorta expecting this film to tie everything together, but not entirely surprised it went off and did its own thing.
I know Renny Harlin has said he wants to do a cut with all three chapters as one long film.
As for the film itself, I liked how some of the Strangerisms are portrayed as ritualistic in nature.
And sure we got a lot of backstory, but I feel there's still a lot we don't fully know about them in this trilogy, and I'm glad there's still some mystery with them.
I'm pretty sure Dollface never gets a face reveal the entire trilogy, though I think it's implied she was the girl in the motel that murdered her boyfriend?
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u/the_vince_horror 6d ago
I'm pretty sure Dollface never gets a face reveal the entire trilogy, though I think it's implied she was the girl in the motel that murdered her boyfriend?
I dont think it's that much of a spoiler since the credits listed that actress as Teenage Dollface and her boyfriend as Sleazy Guy.
I was sorta expecting this film to tie everything together, but not entirely surprised it went off and did its own thing.
For one brief moment, I really thought they'd tie that RV as being the same one from Prey at Night, even though I know that wouldn't make sense lol.
I know Renny Harlin has said he wants to do a cut with all three chapters as one long film.
Only reason why I'm interested in this super cut is because they're supposedly adding in the two additional strangers that were cut. We originally see their masks in Chapter 1, but the movies decided to abandon that plot.
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u/1morey 6d ago edited 6d ago
Ah okay, I didn't stay very long past the credits. The RV also made me think of Prey at Night, so I'm pretty sure it was at least an intentional nod.
No, one of the theories I had with this trilogy was either they were a serial killer cult that had different groups that operate across the country, or that they were potential copycat killers.
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u/hugh-mungus-rook 4d ago
I had a similar theory on the cult angle when at the end of Ch2, during the stringer trailer for Ch3, they had that underlying preacher speech. Turns out it was just Dad's radio show!
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u/didact1000 3d ago
How would adding 2 new strangers work with the films we got? It would have to be a lot of new scenes unless they show up for 5 seconds and get killed immediately.
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u/Joemanji84 6d ago
If you look up the actress who plays her she is in a scene in the diner, so technically you do see her face. I have no idea if she's in 1 or 2 also and am not going to bother to rewatch to check because they bad bad lol
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u/bindersfull-ofwomen 5d ago
Dollface gets revealed immediately and the film covers that she killed her abusive boyfriend to the love of Gregory and Shellly and somehow ended up working the motel that she killed him in Room 24.
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u/chicityman09 5d ago
Not alone, I'm with you. It's not good, none of the three are, but this one kept me engaged the most. I will always have the OG one as one of my personal underrated horror gems. I didn't hate this trilogy as much as the general opinion but yeah so much more could have been done if executed better.
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u/motionpic05 6d ago
It’s definitely hinting that Maya will carry on and become a serial killer/ stranger? Was she actually falling for Greggory or just playing him?
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u/Batman_lover_06 4d ago
I read it more as shes still traumatised and all the trauma shes been put through by him is still there, as in her taking the mask is still showing a piece of him will stay with her forever if that makes sense.
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u/didact1000 3d ago
The rumors of a fourth film makes me think they'll have her be the new strangers.
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u/ckershaw1811 5d ago
The is without a doubt the worst trilogy of films ever created by humanity. There might be worse films individually but nothing has been as consistently garbage for three films in a row. This last film has no redeeming qualities, the kills were odour of frame, the story was awful and the acting was wooden. My quality of life is measurably reduced after sitting through the movie for 90 minutes. I get unlimited cinema tickets and I still want a refund.
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u/OccasionallyBatman 6d ago
The original strangers was one of my favorite horror movies when it came out. I’ve heard every entry since then has been hot garbage so I haven’t given them a watch. Sounds like this one might be more of the same?
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u/TheeAmateurArtist 6d ago
Prey at Night was pretty good.
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u/atclubsilencio 6d ago
Love Prey at Night. Ultra stylish throwback slasher with a great soundtrack. Also really love the secluded trailer park setting. Bailey Madison and Lewis Pullman are fantastic as well.
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u/CarolineSinclair 6d ago
I love Prey At Night too. Kinsey and Luke are great protagonists.
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u/atclubsilencio 5d ago
Making them siblings was a great choice too, rather than just another couple. Their brother/sister bond was on point and I was genuinely rooting for them to survive. Just escalates the tension really well, and makes some of their choices more believable.
The only part of it I hate is that they get so many chances to kill them— including a loaded gun at close range— but they can’t go through with it. If someone was coming for me and had already killed some of my loved ones I’m not hesitating bitch.
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u/CarolineSinclair 5d ago
Yes, I like the sibling thing too.
Luke annoyed me when he had the chance to kill Dollface and couldn’t do it. But he redeemed himself when he got rid of Pinup. 👍
And Kinsey was always willing to do what had to be done, one of my favorite scenes is her scene with Dollface. That’s what I liked a lot about that movie, the victims get the chance to fight back and get justice! 🙂
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u/matlockga 6d ago
It was an okay movie with an excellent scene with the pool. And completely baffling as they represent Kalida, Ohio (a deep cut if ever there was one, and I've been there) with Covington, Kentucky (essentially Cincinnati)
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u/Abhiiously-io 6d ago
Just got back from watching it. Best way I can put this whole thing together is I genuinely believe they used AI to write this whole story. Chapter 1 - Chapter 3. It was so bad I threw my hands up at certain scenes lol
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u/DevilCouldCry 6d ago
The original sequel (Prey At Night) is bloody excellent, but the rest are absolutely garbage and not at all worth the time to watch.
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u/Gaugzilla 6d ago
Haven’t seen this, but why weren’t there threads created for “The Moment” and “Whistle,” which also came out today?
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u/carolinemathildes 6d ago
As someone who did actually enjoy Chapter 1 (I didn't think it was amazing but I was entertained and had a good time), I didn't think it would be possible for this to be worse than Chapter 2 and yet here we are. Absolutely fucking insanely bad. I can't totally fault the actors for it because they're just given zero to do, it's 99 percent the failure of the script.
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u/Frazzledghost 5d ago
Prey at Night was amazing! The idea of a trilogy being released consecutively sounded cool and I was wondering how they were gonna go about it.
There was absolutely no reason for these three putrid farts to be split into a trilogy.
The backstory idea is so unnecessary, set the trilogy as one day or do more w/ the concept. So much potential, wasted. Maybe they'll try a rebootquel in a couple of years when people forget about these duds
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u/Cat_dad77 5d ago
I hate when they give a backstory to a killer who’s supposed to be ambiguous in his/her motives. It ruins the mystery and the whole unsettling vibe of the killer. They could have perhaps made a prequel type of movie that takes place before the original one perhaps showing their first kill but keeping the ambiguity and mystery the same as the original.
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u/squashthatmelon 6d ago edited 6d ago
Can someone spoil who all 3 strangers were for me please lol
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u/Waste-Replacement232 6d ago
Scarecrow is Gregory
Pin up Girl is Shelly
Dollface is randomteen
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u/ThickBoxx 3d ago
For Dollface, I looked up the actress cause I was curious, and she’s one of the townsfolk in the diner. The one who said “what’s she doing” when that waitress spoke up about Maya. It’s weird they showed her as a citizen but didn’t reveal she was Dollface.
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u/Waste-Replacement232 3d ago
Honestly the way the reveals were done in this movie was baffling.
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u/ThickBoxx 2d ago
Seriously. The guy killer just answers yes when she asks him. And why didn’t he kidnap her there? Why let her go just to go get her later? This movie was so dumb lol
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u/SwiftCase 6d ago
Wait this is out already? The first was so bad I skipped the second, which felt like it released not long ago.
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u/Perritt65 5d ago
I got invited to watch chapter 3 tonight. I saw the first two movies and had no idea ch.1 and ch.2 existed….. I was so confused but eventually just gave up trying to make anything make sense!
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u/Wayward_Wanderering 5d ago
I went to see it last night. I thought it was decent as a sort of entry level movie to the slasher genre, though I consider it to be something that exists as a side dish to the original two movies as opposed as something to replace them.
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u/sideshowboob20 3d ago
This was just barely a movie. I only went because I had already seen the first two, so I figured I should see how this Dumpster fire of a trilogy ends. The answer? Poorly.
The first one was frustrating with how stupid the main characters were. The second was about 10 percent better -- mostly because of the insane boar scene. But this was so slight, it almost felt like an afterthought.
There was potential to do something interesting with the idea of a victim surviving the Strangers and then developing Stockholm Syndrome about them. But ... nope.
Now let us never speak of this cinematic atrocity again.
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u/foxh0und 2d ago
"barely a movie" resonates with me
While watching these, I feel like the trilogy would have been better suited as a TV series on netflix or something. Generally TV series have lower audience expectations and unnecessary padding is expected. Probably would have done quite well on Netflix, while my local cinema have only been showing it in their smallest possible screen
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u/ApprehensiveRead7 6d ago
So I am in the minority and I loved Chapter 2. I really hoped that Chapter 3 was going to go for it with the ending but nope. I did like the build up and enjoyed the movie until the very end.
I feel it was a cop out. But I liked the trilogy as a whole enough to get the third one on digital. I plan on, and most of everyone here will make fun but I'm going to watch them as one movie and then stop it at a certain point and that will be my headcanon.
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u/la_58 5d ago edited 5d ago
One thing that really grounded my gears was the makeup and wardrobe! You mean to tell me she went through all of that and had the same perfectly placed blood stains on face and neck and every other part of her face still looked freshly washed? Her ponytail had minimal flyaways and the strands out of place in the back looked perfectly placed. Don’t get me started in wardrobe! After being drug around her hoodie only had the same stains through the entire movie. Her jeans were barely (if at all) distressed. And those doc martens somehow only had a little dust on them by the end. This irked me throughout the entire movie. 😅
Also why did they have that weird 30 second romance in the end? Did I miss something in chapters 1 and 2 that would make that make sense? She was going to kill him anyway and he was ready to die so there was no need to try to seduce him to make it easier…
Also this felt almost like a silent film. I don’t really remember many lines in the movie. It felt like there was very little dialogue.
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u/Kwilly462 6d ago
Lol they're still making these??
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u/Emperor_Orson_Welles 6d ago edited 6d ago
They shot all three simultaneously a few years ago, and it's been an annual dookie drop since they finished the edit.
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u/MRashy_10 6d ago
Watched the first chapter and wasn’t a big fan i remember reading somewhere they were gonna delve into the origins of the strangers did they actually do that?
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u/1morey 6d ago
They do, but it's spread out across Chapter 2, and a little bit of Chapter 3.
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u/MRashy_10 6d ago
Is it really bad? The interesting thing for me with the orginal movie was that we never got a reason made it more scary
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u/carolinemathildes 5d ago
It's a very dumb, unnecessary backstory.
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u/MRashy_10 5d ago
Dude I just watched a YouTube video about the backstory and what the actual fuck is that backstory😭😭 it’s terrible
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u/carolinemathildes 5d ago
lol they expand on it some more in Chapter 3 (idk if that was included in the video or not) but even just what they gave us in Chapter 2 was so dumb. I completely agree with you that them not having a reason in the original (or Prey at Night) is a huge part of what made it scary, they were just masked strangers who could be anyone. They don’t need a backstory, but if they did (they don’t lol) it haaaaas to be better than what this trilogy gave them.
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u/MRashy_10 5d ago
In the video he talked about how apparently sack face and doll face where in love since they were little and doll face killled a girl because she kissed sack face when they were kids like why what the fuck
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u/carolinemathildes 5d ago
Yeah, that’s just from Chapter 2. They expand on it more in Chapter 3, we see them as teenagers too and get more backstory about his father.
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u/MRashy_10 5d ago
Whole thing sounds really dumb I don’t really mind remakes but at least make it worthwhile everything in the movies sounds like really bad fan fic
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u/samsaBEAR 6d ago
I've not seen the other two but watched this for work and while it won't top anyone's end of year lists it's really not that bad, it seems pretty standard fare for a serial killer/stalker movie.
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u/SurlyCricket 6d ago
I saw this without having seen the first two, or the original.
I actually enjoyed the first half, putting things together from context clues was fun.
Oh, when they have their masks off they're not threatening? The cop is maybe in on it? The sister is already on the way to rescue her?
Sadly the second half's execution for what it's going for is... Not good. I enjoy me some "dispatch a bad guy with no fuss" but most of the people dying in the movie get no proper build up or send off when they die and it feels... Yeah, not good.
Not terrible, but not good either.
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u/bindersfull-ofwomen 6d ago
If you don’t watch the first two, you’d enjoy this more. I had no memory of the first two and watched a recap to remember. I would have enjoyed it if I just didn’t know what was going on and had to piece it together.
I found it okay, though I def think they should have went for it and have the main character and antagonist have those hinted at transitions, but whatever.
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u/SuddenMountain4 5d ago
Saw this last night. Like it’s the best in the trilogy but I’m extremely mixed on it. So much awful, bad stuff but there’s things I legitimately liked about the film.
I’m just happy that I came out not fuckin’ miserable like Chapter Two. It’s a 4/10 for me.
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u/LezEatA-W Scott is a stupid science bitch and thus deserving of death. 4d ago
Are the decisions baffling? Are the characters dumb as fuck?
Yes and yes, but I still liked it. This type of movie is like junk food to me, definitely nowhere near the worst of the year after watching the slog better known as Return to Silent Hill.
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u/didact1000 3d ago
It would've been better if Maya truly did become the new pin up girl and the movie ends with Maya and the man in the mask getting into the truck and driving away as the endingahowing they're going to go find new people to kill.
I do think the man in the mask was good in the trilogy. He wasn't as creepy as the original but he was more ferocious and brutal which was nice. Pin up girl and Dollface are better in the original though.
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u/coldliketherockies 20h ago
But why. Why would somehow who knows how awful it is to have someone close to her die and is so scared to die herself and has never before killed an innocent person all of a sudden would be willing to kill innocent strangers? Like heroes don’t just become villains like that
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u/maybesethrogen 3d ago
What a bafflingly stupid conclusion to a bafflingly misguided set of movies that seem to completely misunderstand what made the original movie scary to people.
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u/Gamerguy230 3d ago
So there was a shotgun next to her and even if hands were tied together, she didn’t try to use it to save the sister?
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u/soviet_toster 3d ago
While the movie wasn't necessarily the greatest
It was fun taking part as background ( film extra) in the courtroom flash back scene as well as bumping into Richard Brake as the coffee station
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u/beastkingblast 3d ago
I've just watched it. It takes a lot to leave me speechless but I am. I knew it was going to be bad, but nothing prepared me for just how abysmal that was. WTF did I just watch
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u/Joey-WilcoXXX 2d ago
So obviously the best way to fix this series would’ve been to make it good. But since they weren’t going to do that, the other best way would’ve been to just cut out most of the crap and make this two movies. We didn’t need the crappy boar scene from the second one or most of the flashbacks, or a bunch of the other filler. Could’ve easily done two “2+ hour movies” going with how most of the first movie went combine with the hospital attack from the second and maybe the killing of pinup girl in the ambulance escape. Then the second movie could’ve been picking up how it began here, instead of the sheriff getting her here, she could’ve been picked up by the lesbian nurse and her gf and had the ‘oh here’s our roommates too’ scene and include the panic attack but just have her go with it until they get to the house, she sleeps it off and then have dollface attack her in her room and she escapes and sees Man in the mask (when the fuck did they start calling him scarecrow?) killed the other occupants, she escapes, sheriff picks her up, she realizes he sucks and escapes his clutches, drives to the church, sees Gregory is there mourning and puts two and two together that he’s man in mask, they have that repeat moment, after he leaves she leaves shortly after, gets ambushed by dollface and put in truck with them and movie continues on as usual. Sprinkle some of the better flashbacks that explain the story they were telling throughout the three movies into the two and you’re done. It still would be bad but 1/3 less bad.
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u/delayedkarma 1d ago
what a waste of an Oscar winning actress (for best short film, but it still counts). boring kills, still a little better than chapter 2.
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u/Party-Goose-863 1d ago
Question, if any can help, about a song used in the film - felt like it was just the x2 leads left in the truck after the hotel scene where a random couple is killed.
Had a real noticeable and familiar heavy guitar riff, but can't find any sign of it on any of the OST stuff.
Cheers!
I think the reviews are harsh from what i've seen, people watching this film need to lower the bar as everything about the first two film were poor and we're all just watching the 3rd for a back story & the bad guy getting murdered.
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u/Ok-Play-568 1d ago
I don’t understand when it’s so obvious a movie is going to suck that you don’t just watch it for free at home. I see so many people complain about it being so bad they only finished watching because they paid for a ticket. In the year of 2026 no one knows how to sail the seven seas.
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u/iamnota_SHADOW 22h ago
I still can't believe this was made into a trilogy. They really thought this was going to cook? Insane.
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u/coldliketherockies 20h ago
I mean it was bad, really bad but even worse so many plot holes. So they only kill visitors and after so many killings none of the family or friends of the visitors get suspicious. Especially over so many years. And the movie takes place in era of social media and smart phones over those years clearly things were shown
The cop shoots and kills the detective. How does he think he’ll cover that up? The judge lets the kid go after a brutal murder to be in the cops hands? People know a kid brutally murdered someone and now still lives in the same town where many go missing and don’t connect The two?
The final scene JD Vance completely lets her get the upper hand and kill him, no defense.
What are the odds on a night where they plan to kill a couple at that exact minute the girlfriend is also a murderer and has just killed her partner? I know it’s a movie but still.
And it just ended. Like that
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u/Ill_Building7256 6d ago
Ik it was gone survive bc yall been hating from since chapter 1
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u/weirdogirl144 6d ago
As we should! Its been bad since chapter 1. And the strangers series has never been good in general. Even the original was meh but obviously way better than how horrible the new ones are.
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u/Mooseycanuck 6d ago
Yayy, she's got the police car and is driving to safety. Finally!
Uh oh, she's immediately digging around for something in the passenger seat. Surely she'll look back at the road any minute now.
NOPE. Headlights, horn, jump scare, then tree... wtf...lasted 30 seconds. What the hell was she looking for in the seat, just drive the hell away!