The Strangers: Prey at Night Movie Storyline. Ten painful years have passed since the intimidation and slaughter at the Hoyts’ home in The Strangers (2008), and the mysterious masked psychopaths–Doll-face, Pin-Up Girl, and The Man in the Mask–have now picked out their next victims.
As Mike, his wife Cindy, and their children, Luke and Kinsey, head to Lake Gatlin to spend the night with Uncle Marvin on their way to Kinsey’s faraway boarding school, the pitiless Strangers show up on their front door intent on murder. Once more, an endless night of terror begins and yet another family must fight tooth and nail to prevail. In this frenzied battle of survival, who will live and who will die?
The Strangers: Prey at Night (also known as The Strangers II: Prey at Night) is a 2018 American slasher film directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Bailee Madison, Lewis Pullman, Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, and Damian Maffei. It was written by Bryan Bertino (who wrote and directed the first film) and Ben Ketai. A sequel to The Strangers (2008), the film follows a family vacationing to a secluded mobile home park, where they are attacked by three masked thugs.
Development of the film began in August 2008, with Rogue Pictures had confirmed that a sequel was in the works, with Bertino co-writing the screenplay with Ketai. It was originally slated to enter principal photography in 2009, during which time it was tentatively titled The Strangers: Part II. Directors Laurent Briet and Marcel Langenegger were considered to direct, but landed eventually to Roberts. After a troubled development period, filming to the sequel began on May 30, 2017.
The Strangers: Prey at Night was released in the United States on March 9, 2018, and grossed $32.1 million worldwide on a budget of $5 million. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with some considering it to be more entertaining than its predecessor and appreciated its satire of horror films, while others noted it as inferior to the original and called it clichéd.
In February 2017, it was announced that Johannes Roberts would be the sequel’s new director, and that filming would commence during the summer of the same year. In May 2017, Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, and Lewis Pullman were reported as the film’s stars, and production began in Los Angeles on May 30.[15] In June 2017, it was announced Martin Henderson had also joined, along with the other main cast members.
Filming began in June 2017 in Covington, Kentucky, Kincaid Lake State Park in Falmouth, Kentucky and lower Cincinnati which concluded on July 10, 2017.
In the United States and Canada, The Strangers: Prey at Night was released alongside The Hurricane Heist, Gringo and A Wrinkle in Time, and was projected to gross around $7 million from 2,464 theaters in its opening weekend. It made $4 million on its first day, including $610,000 from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $10.4 million, finishing third at the box office behind Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time.
Johannes Roberts Talks to Strangers: Prey at Night
In a recent interview with Crave Online, 47 Meters Down director Johannes Roberts opened up about his current project, The Strangers 2. In doing so, he drew comparisons to John Carpenter’s Christine and also revealed that The Stranger’s truck will play a major role in the upcoming sequel.
“We play with the truck a lot in this one, and that’s kind of fun,” the director explained to Crave. “It has a slight Christine feel to it. That’s kind of cool. You know, The Strangers’ truck in the first one. That plays quite an iconic role in this.”
“I love the first one,” Roberts continued. “I think it’s a super cool movie,” he said. “It’s really smartly put together and I think [Bertino] did a really good job of creating a really oddly paced movie. In a good way. You know, people have played with the whole mask thing since then… they haven’t really done that sort of pacing, and set it in a drama, or the feel the first one had. So it’s a great opportunity to try something a little different, for me. There’s a real grounded drama. You really buy into this family and the journey they’re going through before everything goes horribly wrong.”
Martin Henderson (The Ring), Christina Hendricks (The Neon Demon), Bailee Madison (Don’t be Afraid of the Dark), and Lewis Pullman (Aftermath) star. Hendricks, Madison, and Pullman will appear as a family on a cross country road trip who take refuge in a trailer park, only to find that they are being targeted by a trio of malevolent ‘strangers’.
The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
Directed by: Johannes Roberts
Starring: Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Martin Henderson, Emma Bellomy, Lewis Pullman, Damian Maffei, Leah Roberts, Lea Enslin, Preston Sadleir
Screenplay by: Bryan Bertino, Ben Ketai
Production Design by: Freddy Waff
Cinematography by: Ryan Samul
Film Editing by: Martin Brinkler
Costume Design by: Carla Shivener
Set Decoration by: Kay Wolfley
Art Direction by: Paul Luther Jackson
Music by: Adrian Johnston
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence and terror throughout, and for language.
Distributed by: Rogue Pictures
Release Date: March 9, 2018
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