I watched this movie last night and it was SO SCARY. The worst part is that it is based on a true story and it is set in a home much like my own: old house (check), surrounded by land (check), middle of the night (check). Needless to say if you like scary movies, this one does a pretty solid job blending immediate danger, suspense and torturous taunting that leads to killing. It will scare your socks off.
Want to be scared? Rent this bad boy today. What truth is in the true story claim you ask? Here's what a genius (or a person with too much free time) on Yahoo! Answers had to say:
The True Story Behind the New Movie "The Strangers" is a mixture of three stories.
The killers, a principle male assailant and female accomplices, is based upon Charles Manson and the Manson killings.
The frantic "there's blood everywhere" 911 phone call and "bounding to a chair and stabbing" was based on the killings in Cabin 28.
The basic story of a couple being terrorized by a group of people was based on the famous killing in the Czech Republic, which was also made into a French Film titled Ils, translated to mean "Them."
In the Czech Republic murders, an Austrian couple are terrorized in their vacation home by three teenagers and are later killed in the forest when they try to escape. BUT, a concrete source for this alleged crime has yet to be found other than countless blog postings, leading most people to believe that the story was engineered much like the Blair Witch Project, to give Directors a legal excuse to claim that it was based on a "True Story."
In the Cabin 28 murders, the daughter of a woman walks into a cabin where her mother, brother, and brother's female friend were staying only to find them stabbed and hammered to death. She calls 911 frantically repeating "there's blood everywhere," which there was although no one heard anything all night.
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