“The Strangers: Chapter 1” stars Madelaine Petsch, Froy Guitierrez, Gabriel Basso, and Ema Horvath. Within the movie, “After their automobile breaks down in an eerie small city, a younger couple (Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez) are pressured to spend the night time in a distant cabin. Panic ensues as they’re terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive in THE STRANGERS ― CHAPTER 1, the chilling first entry of this upcoming horror characteristic movie collection.”
As Harlin informed EW: “When this chance got here to me, the thought of not doing a remake or a reboot however doing a trilogy primarily based on the unique movie, I assumed it was an unimaginable alternative.” Discover how Harlin stresses this isn’t a remake or a reboot? Nicely … not so quick.
The filmmaker, who shot all three movies back-to-back, did confer with the brand new movie as a “remake” to us right here at /Movie, saying: “So the chance, the prospect of a lifetime to take a movie that you simply cherished, be capable of remake it, after which reply a few of these questions that I believe all of us who loved the unique have been left questioning, like, ‘Why? Who have been the Strangers? Why did they do that? Is that this fully actually random, or is there one thing behind this or a minimum of some explanation why any person is a mindless, horrible serial killer?'”
So is that this a remake or not? I suppose we’ll see.
In any case, that bit with Harlin asking “Who have been the Strangers? Why did they do that?” provides me pause. A part of what makes the unique film so efficient is that we by no means actually be taught who the masked killers are or what their motive is. They’re simply three random nobodies who present up out of nowhere and begin slicing and dicing, seemingly for no motive in any respect. The truth is, once they’re questioned as to why they’re doing this, one in all them merely replies: “Since you have been house.” That is fairly rattling scary! And that second is recreated on this trailer, which suggests … a remake. However then the trailer additionally incorporates a tagline that claims the movie will present us “How the Strangers turned the Strangers.” Which suggests … a prequel? I suppose? It is all a bit muddled. However this can be a fairly good trailer, total. Let’s hope the trilogy measures up.
“The Strangers: Chapter 1” scares audiences on Might 17, 2024.