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It's been three years since Bryan Bertino's masked-maniacs movie The Strangers came out, so that means it's been three years of my boyfriend yelling at me to find out what Brian Bertino's been doing since then. He really liked The Strangers. So did I! There has been talk about a sequel this whole time - Liv Tyler recently said that there was a script she read that had nothing to do with Bertino; meanwhile looking at Bertino's IMDb page the top credit is for the screenplay the The Strangers 2! So I don't know. What I do know though is what BD is telling us today:
"Unbroken Pictures is behind a mind-blowing new project that just went out to studios, and we were just sent the promo accompanying the screenplay. Entitled Grim Night, this new "holiday"-inspired horror film that mixes the supernatural with the end of the world was penned by none other than Bryan Bertino...
From the promo trailer (a piece of footage used to sell the screenplay, meaning there is no movie just yet) I was able to piece together the plot: "Grim Night" takes place once a year, where Grim Reapers come to Earth to collect souls. The video teases the loss of over 90,000 people thus far.
What's so incredibly creepy about the promo is that is takes the horror genre out of a contained box and supposes that everyone in the world knows about these demons. It would be as if Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees were real, and everybody knew they were coming. How would the world react to a yearly invasion by Death's army?"
You can actually watch the clip they're talking about at the link. Sounds like an idea with some promise. I think The Strangers showed Bertino to have a deft hand at creating and sustaining tension, as well as a great eye for composition (that was a good looking, well-shot movie), so I'm on-board with whatever BB comes up with.
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I thought the strangers was cap. Plotless, meanigless. Didn't worth my time. I can't understand how one can like a movie where some people kill people for no reason. Of course I'm not American so...
Great comment! Thanks for sharing!
I'm sorry I didn't meant to offent you. But I'd like to know. What was that you liked? I love your blog and I'm starting to really like you but sometimes on movies I can't understand you. Besides the fact that I found it uninteresting and meaningless and unsatisfing in every way possible. I think that these type of movies bring our world closer to distraction. Somehow makes this crazy situations of people killing others for no reason, real.
I see it as the duty of film as an art-form to find ways to express all of human experience, and terror is part of the human experience, and what "reason" is there for killing someone really that's a substantial enough reason? Violence ultimately is meaningless - it tears a hole right in the fabric of our ordered existence - and as such, in order to express it I find films that honor the chaos, the unexplainable nature of violence, more honest than ones that wrap it up in a pretty bow and try to explain it away. I found terrible randomness of what happens in The Strangers really disturbing, which is the whole point. If you don't want a movie to disturb you, then you just shouldn't bother watching horror films, which I don't mean as an insult - they aren't meant for everyone. But the absence of any explanations or order is The Strangers strongest credit, I think.
Wow. I can't really say it in such nice words but I get your point but I disagree. I believe every film has a purpose in this world. And I like to watch movies that have a meaning. If I remember corectly you liked the Greek movie Dogtooth too. Well I understand where these movies come from but because I know the average person I know that they are not made for them and giving awards or praising them only makes it worse because people who don't understant smt but are told that it is good they tent to like it and try to imitate it.if you mean for us -the audience- to feel terror then yes, I agree. It is our fault to watch such movies. But what is the real purpose behind these movies? Are they really art? I personally don't like horror movies but I somehow watched this one.
I guess I don't like to be disturbed for no reason and I found the ending empty and unjust both for the victims and the villains.
Anybody who feels the need to imitate The Strangers had bigger problems than watching The Strangers before they watched The Strangers and the movie didn't make them that way. If we weren't allowed to praise anything without a happy positive moralistic message than 50% of all things created ever would be immediately deemed worthless. Life has bad things in it. To say that art isn't allowed to express bad things is to undermine and invalidate the entire idea of human expression. I don't see the expression of a terrible randomness, of not everything having meaning, as an absence of purpose - I see that as a very purposeful point of view, and therefore well worth expressing.
I got your point. I see where you're coming from but I disagree. I am not saying that there are people crazy enough to do the strangers but all this violence of the movies will eventually -if it hasn't yet- be absorbed by the world.
There was violence in the world for thousands of years before the first strip of film was even invented. We actually live in more peaceful times than any time in all of human history. See: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576583203589408180.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
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