After the horrible outing of Chapter 1, The Strangers Chapter 2 dropped last year to almost no excitement. Only being released I feel because all 3 films were filmed at the same time for a small budget, Chapter 2 starts to forge its own story after Chapter One acted as mostly a remake of the original film.
We continue following Maya who after getting some severe wounds soon has to be on the run again as the masked men appear at the hospital shes at. Sadly this is the entire premise of this film. In our dead town, lifeless of anything worthy of seeing, we get to follow Maya run from room to room, location to location, in a near cartoonish manner as we get bored to tears.
Its just hard to care here really. Maya is rather paper thin character, no backstory really or anything, our masked strangers now come as typical slasher villains, and any other character is either boring giving bland dialog that will set up a twist for part 3 or are killed off.
What really starts to hurt this film though is the flashbacks. We start to get flashbacks done to give our masked villains some backstory from when they were first children. They are poorly done and overall pointless flashbacks that just show that these were deranged people.
Our standout here though both good and bad involves a scenes where Maya fights an animal. It is so over the top and dumb that with just how bland and boring these movies are it becomes the highlight of it.
Madelaine Petsch really tries her best here as Maya and deserves some praise for standing out in such a poorly wrote movie but she can’t save this.
With how part 1 and 2 are I can only imagine what dumb things may come for the final act in this unneeded trilogy.
Score :
1 / 5
