We’re in the midst of a brand new trilogy of The Strangers films. The trilogy has been described as an “odyssey” with The Strangers: Chapter 1 particularly characterised as “an homage” to the 2008 authentic. The primary installment hit theaters final Could, listed here are some questions The Strangers: Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 should reply once they comes out sooner or later this yr.
Should you haven’t seen The Strangers: Chapter 1 but, be sure you keep after the movie for a fast post-credits scene and cease studying this text right here as spoilers are forward.
1. Who’s “Tamara”?
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This isn’t a query individuals who have seen the primary movie doubtless had because it might simply be defined as a ruse to see who’s in the home. Additionally, the lore the movie relies on (author Bryan Bertino recalled an expertise from childhood the place somebody got here to his door and requested for somebody who didn’t dwell there) implied there’s no attention-grabbing reply to this query. Nevertheless, a 2024 Variety article promised that the trilogy would answer this question. No details about Tamara was given in Chapter 1 so it have to be coming within the subsequent two movies.
2. Are The Strangers the identical individuals in all the films?
The Strangers appear like the identical characters from the opposite movies. There are three of them: a person, a girl, and (seemingly) a teenage woman. The Strangers seem to put on the identical masks in all of the movies. In addition they have the identical Modus Operandi: unscrewing the porch lightbulb earlier than knocking on the door and asking for “Tamara” after which terrorizing the house’s inhabitants.
There may be one small clue that there could also be extra Strangers, nonetheless, as a wide range of masks are proven in one of many closets within the AirBnb in Chapter 1. The masks and the opening kill make me marvel if maybe “searching cabin” is a neighborhood in-joke for the house being a location the place Strangers routinely hunt humans.
3. Are The Strangers a part of a cult?
Earlier than seeing Chapter 1, I had a pet idea that the title characters are a part of a spiritual cult. Proof for this idea:
- A cult can also clarify how The Strangers are energetic in South Carolina within the authentic, Ohio in Prey at Evening and Venus, Oregon in Chapter 1.
- The Strangers knock on the door, just like non secular proselytizers.
- The Strangers at all times ask if “Tamara” is dwelling, which may very well be like how proselytizers begin a dialog with asking if somebody is aware of about Jesus. Maybe Tamara is a deity or chief within the cult or just a code phrase cult members use to establish one another.
- We see literal non secular proselytizers on the finish of the 2008 movie, and The Strangers cease to choose up a pamphlet from them. The proselytizers later discover Liv Tyler’s character alive on the cabin, however her destiny is unknown.
- Characters who appear equivalent to the proselytizers within the 2008 movie are proven on the town in Chapter 1.
- Chapter 1 depicts the townspeople as social conservatives, clutching their pearls once they uncover Ryan and Maya have been relationship for 5 years however are single. There may very well be a connection to James and Kristen within the authentic being single (a serious plotpoint is that they’re going to the cabin after James’ failed proposal to Kristen), or this might simply be a part of Chapter 1‘s homage to the unique.
- In Chapter 1, Ryan is obtainable a tract a second time, when he picks up meals at night time.
One of many issues I believe Chapter 2 or Chapter 3 will certainly present is what’s contained in the proselytizer pamphlets we maintain seeing.
4. How do The Strangers monitor their prey?
The Strangers appear to be all-powerful whereas monitoring their desired victims. They at all times appear to be one step forward, in a position to silently creep all through the cabin undetected and be precisely on the proper place with a view to shock assault their prey. Have they got hidden cameras? Are they only exceptionally expert hunters?
As it is a frequent attribute of horror film villains, it would simply be a part of telling a fictional story and never one thing we’ll ever get extra details about.
Whereas The Strangers: Chapter 2 nonetheless doesn’t have a launch date, we do have a trailer:
