Renny Harlin’s shoddy 2024 offering, The Strangers: Chapter 1 , was essentially a remake of Bryan Bertino’s super-suspenseful 2008 home-invasion chiller The Strangers , in which a couple are tormented by a trio of — you guessed it — strangers. But there was a catch: Harlin in fact shot three back-to-back movies from a 260-page script, and promoted Chapter 1 with the promise/threat that Chapters 2 and 3 would widen his largely one-location horror movie across America while unmasking the reasons behind this ostensibly random violence.

Well, this second instalment is sprinkled with flashbacks, the filmmakers seemingly having not seen Rob Zombie’s Halloween or Texas Chainsaw prequel Leatherface: The Beginning , or they’d know that a trite backstory of childhood trauma on

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