Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...
New remake “The Strangers: Chapter 1” does a huge disservice to its fantastic predecessor, offering up a masterclass of preposterousness and inanity instead. Entertainment Critic Bryan Bertino’s 2008 ...
Directed by Renny Harlin, Lionsgate's "The Strangers" spinoff is neither prequel nor sequel and begins with a well-constructed but underwhelming retread of the treasured 2008 original. That’s fun ...
Froy Gutierrez and Madelaine Petsch in 'The Strangers: Chapter 1' Photo Credit: John Armour for Lionsgate The landscape of horror cinema is strewn with sequels, prequels, reboots, and remakes—many of ...
A formulaic, frustratingly familiar script An overly convoluted first act A story that adds astonishingly little to what's come before it “Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history ...
It may be hard to believe, but there was a time when people said Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen” would be impossible to film. After all, it was the “Citizen Kane” of superhero comics, a ...
Just once, I would love it if Tamara was actually home. Her friends clearly miss her and are so concerned for her that they'll kill anyone who stops them from finding her. This movie adds so little to ...
Many of us have a story about the first time we watched Bryan Bertino’s The Strangers, a movie that fundamentally changed me as a horror film freak. I saw it opening weekend in 2008, coinciding with ...
The Strangers: Chapter 1 opens in theaters May 17. In 2008, The Strangers capitalized on the fear of randomized violence so well that it recouped its budget nine times over. The film shows a hapless ...