Film: The Strangers: Chapter 1
Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Ryan Bown, Matus Lajcak, Rachel Shenton, Megan Suri, Gabriel Basso
Director: Renny Harlin
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 91 min

A reboot of  Bryan Bertino’s Liv Tyler starrer ‘The Strangers,’ a 2008 cult hit home invasion horror movie with vicious strangers dressed like a scarecrow and enraged Betty Boops, this Chapter 1, is the first part of an intended 3 part franchise.

The opening sequence has a man being followed and hacked down by three masked men. Thereafter, the narrative follows a young couple Maya (Madelaine Petsch) and Ryan (Froy Gutierrez) who are traveling across the country. They find out their GPS is malfunctioning, take a wrong turn, and promptly get stranded in an off-the-beaten-path small-town. In this film it’s Venus, Oregon, the residents seem unduly hostile and the couple feels upended by the cold reception they get there.