The Strangers Chapter 2 teaser trailer reveals a whole new direction for the horror series but keeps its spirit alive with a repeat of its most classic line
Oct. 18, 2024The Strangers Chapter 2 teaser takes the home out of home invasion
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The first teaser for Lionsgate’s upcoming horror sequel The Strangers: Chapter 2 is here, and it looks like a completely different direction for the series.
In the clip, we see Madelaine Petsch return as Maya Lucas and awake in a hospital following the events of The Strangers: Chapter 1, before running out into the rain and being picked up by a car full of strangers… you already know how this is going to go.
One of the strangers soon brandishes a large knife before they all don the creepy masks fans of the series are familiar with. The teaser ends with a familiar scene: someone knocking loudly on a door and then only saying “Is Tamara here?” when the door opens. This is a callback to the beginning of the first movie, when an unsettled Scott Speedman opens the door to a stranger asking the same question before all hell breaks loose.
Director Renny Harlin previously toldTHRthe second and third movies in The Strangers reboot trilogy will “go in completely different directions” than the first installment and teased they would be “epic”. Indeed, starting out with the main protagonist essentially being kidnapped in a car is in stark contrast to the home invasion theme in all previous Strangers installments.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, with the official synopsis only teasing “the chilling next chapter of The Strangers franchise.”
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