I pray this doesn't scare you

It is rare that a horror movie makes me sweat, and my heart race. I have become so acclimated to them since I have watched so many. The film The Strangers Prey at Night did that and more. This movie directed by Johannes Roberts tells the terrifyingly true story of Mike and his wife Cindy who take their son and daughter on a road trip which becomes their worst nightmare. The family members soon find themselves in a desperate fight for survival when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park that's mysteriously deserted -- until three masked psychopaths show up to satisfy their thirst for blood. The thing about this film that made it scary was the fact that is was “based off true events.” I put that in quotes because after during further research I found out pretty much nothing about it actually happened, except for one little aspect. Thinking that what happened in the movie actually took place freaked me out, because then you think it could happen to you too. Then it was just a very stressful film because I did not want the main characters to die and they came so close to that ending many times. So, panic was the main emotion I felt during the film. Not fear. It was smart though to say it was based on true events because that is what really played into its’ fear factor.


I will say that if you scare easier this film will probably terrify you, I am just more desensitized when it comes to horror. To give you a comparison the friend I saw it with held her knees to her chest was biting her nails, and every time there was a knock on a door/jump scare she leaped out of her seat and flailed her arms. So, I will not discredit this movie on its ability to frighten someone from my own personal experience. I will say the fact the three killers were masked amped up the horror. Not being able to see a person's face takes away their humanity, transforming them from man to monster. Plus the masks they used were hella creepy. Also, the fact that the killers were just killing for the heck of it. *minor spoiler alert* When the daughter of the family asked her attacker why she was doing what she was doing her answer was, “Why not.” Then just the overall emotion that the characters portray gives you the ability to feel major amounts of empathy. Allowing you to connect to a character, especially in horror, really makes your emotions go all over the place.
Overall, the major thing in this film that bothered me was its overuse of jump scares. But it is a movie I would see again.  
Links:
Source information: https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Strangers-True-Story-44058481

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Whispers

Image
Today being another Saturday I think it is time for a Scary Story Saturday. The story I plan to review is one that I can relate to in a sense, but I cannot relate to the experience. I hope no other person can because some scary stuff went down. The story’s link will be posted at the bottom of the page but here is the story: This is a story I do not often tell. I promise, sincerely, that this has scarred me for life and although I have looked into psychological explanations for what I heard and natural explanations for what occurred, they remain unsatisfactory. When I was a child, I was scared of the dark. I swore to my mother I heard voices in it. They were not evil, but they were not familiar and so they scared me. It was not uncommon in the middle of the night for me to wake up and hear “whispers” as I would call them when asking my mom. She figured they were just “bumps in the night” and typical kids nightmare material. I tried often to explain to her that it was more t...
Read more

"The House that Spirits Built"

Image
This is a movie that I would definitely see again. I was unsure of what to expect going into the theater, but I was pleasantly surprised. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits one of the country's most beautiful mansions. Built by Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester fortune, it is a house that knows no end. Constructed in an incessant twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week mania for decades, it stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms. To the outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman's madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece or for the brilliant Doctor Eric Price whom she has summoned to the house. She is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the Winchesters.  From scene one of this film the creepiness is immediately prominent. You follow a little boy that is awoken in the middle o...
Read more

This should wake you up

Image
Me being a major fan of the second Amityville film, when I first saw a trailer for this movie I could not wait to see it. Then the release dates were mixed up because the first trailer said it would be released January 2015, then it was pushed until April 2016, then January of 2017 then was finally released in June of 2017. Unfortunately, it had a silent release into Google Play, then had a week-long showing in select theatre in New York. So, I thought seeing this film would never happen, except for maybe streaming it on some website. Then, one day I came across it while looking for a movie to rent in one of those Redbox machines at the store. My dreams of wanting to see the film had come true. I just hoped and prayed it would live up to my expectations. I am glad to say, for me, I enjoyed the film. It revolves around a new family moving into the house of horrors, a single mother with her three children: seventeen-year-old Belle, her twin brother James (who is in a comatose state),...
Read more