Why is strangers rated r

A woman screams off-camera, implying that she is being stabbed. A man lies dead in a pool of blood, he has bloody cuts on his face, and his shirt is covered in blood. A man is thrown violently to the floor there's no blood and he is still conscious. A man runs toward another man, and we hear a thud, implying that he hit the man.

A woman, whose face and clothing are bloody, screams. A woman cuts her hand on broken glass and we see her hand covered in blood. A man bandages a woman's bloody hand. A woman trips and falls into a hole, twisting her ankle and she moans in pain.

We hear a man scream in pain, and a woman screams. A man hears loud knocking at the door, he approaches the door and an ax head breaks through from the other side. A teen girl is also sliced up and cries in pain. Language includes several uses of "f--k," plus "s--t," "bitch," and more. A teen girl uses middle-finger gestures. A married couple mentions sex in one scene; they also drink wine from a bottle. Teens consider taking shots of whiskey, but don't do it. Bottom line?

This is pretty pointless, but horror fans may have a little fun with it. Add your rating See all 16 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 21 kid reviews. Kinsey's older brother, Luke Lewis Pullman , joins them for the road trip to the school. They stop at a mobile home park to spend the night, but, just as they're about to settle in, they're visited by an unusual young woman.

Then, Kinsey and Luke find an open trailer with two dead bodies inside. Realizing that all their phones have been disabled, the family members try to escape, but eerie masked killers are on the attack. As the bodies begin to fall, Kinsey and Luke try to fight back, but the "strangers" are everywhere This years-later sequel to one of the staples of the home-invasion horror subgenre is aggravatingly typical, with baffling lapses in logic, dumb characters, and annoying, all-powerful killers.

The original The Strangers wasn't good or well-received by either critics or viewers , but it still made lots of money. Thus, the sequel, The Strangers: Prey at Night , which is completely unnecessary other than as an investment. Director Johannes Roberts The Other Side of the Door , 47 Meters Down , starts things off promisingly, with a s-style title card and a creepy, s-style synthesizer score, as well as some ironically chosen '80s pop songs.

He even includes a De Palma -like split-screen shot. But the movie disintegrates quickly from there. The characters aren't very smart, and their dialogue never really rings true. Unbelievably, all four of them leave their trailer without taking their phones.

And they're always poking around where they shouldn't be, facing the wrong direction, or running from danger in plain sight. The killers, on the other hand, are inhumanly imperturbable, with nary a drop of adrenaline affecting their actions.

They're also able, supernaturally, to be anywhere, at any time, and to know where their victims are at all times. There's no suspense and no horror. It's all just crushingly dull. Families can talk about The Strangers: Prey at Night 's violence. How much blood and gore is shown? What's the effect? Does it make you jump, squeal, or shut your eyes? Is it shocking? What's the impact of media violence on kids? Is the movie scary? What's the appeal of horror movies? What's the appeal of home-invasion movies in particular?

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