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Release Date
May 30th, 2008
Director
Bryan Bertino
Writers
Bryan Bertino
Starring
Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Gemma Ward, Kip Weeks, Laura Margolis, Glenn Howerton
Studio
Universal Studios
The Strangers
Lock the doors. Assume you’re safe.
The horrifying events that took place in the Hoyt family’s vacation home at 1801 Clark Road on Februay 11, 2005, are still not entirely known.
Champagne. Rose Petals. Candelight. It was supposed to be a night of celebration for Kristen McKa (Liv Tyler) and James Hoyt (Scot Sppedman). But after leaving a friend’s wedding reception and returning to the houe, everything had collapsed for the happy couple.
Then came a 4 a.m. knock on the door and a haunting voice.
Is Tamara here?
Three masked assailants terrorize a young couple in their remote summer home in The Strangers.
The Strangers was made on a budget of $9,000,000 and after two postponements, was released theatrically on May 30, 2008 in North America. The film was marketed as being inspired by a “true story” and grossed $82.3 million at the box office worldwide. Critical reaction to the film was mixed, with both praise and dismissal from various reviewers.
Director Bryan Bertino also wrote the film’s script, which was originally titled The Faces. Bertino took a particular interest in the horror genre, noting how one can connect to an audience by scaring them. He also stated that he was significantly inspired by thriller films of the 1970s while writing the film.
According to production notes, the film was inspired by true events from director Bryan Bertino’s childhood: a stranger came to his home asking for someone who was not there, and Bertino later found out that empty homes in the neighborhood had been broken into that night:
“As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it. At the door were some people asking for somebody who didn’t live there. We later found out that these people were knocking on doors in the area and, if no one was home, breaking into the houses.”
In interviews, Bertino stated he was “very impressed” with some of the theories circulating on the Internet about the “true events” the movie is allegedly based on, but said his main inspiration was the 1969 Manson murders and subsequent true crime novel Helter Skelter; some have said that the film was also inspired by the Keddie Cabin Murders of 1981 that occurred in a small vacation community in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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