{"id":737,"date":"2026-02-05T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=737"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:00:19","slug":"the-strangers-chapter-3-review-lifeless-boring-and-thoroughly-uninteresting-trilogy-comes-to-a-dull-whimpering-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"The Strangers &#8211; Chapter 3 Review: Lifeless, Boring and Thoroughly Uninteresting Trilogy Comes to a Dull, Whimpering End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the thing: if you\u2019re going to spend time explaining who the titular strangers are, they no longer become strangers, and now they\u2019re a hell of a lot less scary. It\u2019s almost impressive just how fundamentally wrong Renny Harlin\u2019s trilogy has understood the appeal of the characters <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/movie\/the-strangers\/\" target=\"_blank\">originally created by Bryan Bertino<\/a>. <em>Of course<\/em> people left the original film wondering who these sadistic serial killers are and why they do what they do, but that doesn&#8217;t mean you spend four and half hours over three films dispelling the entire mystery. <strong>The whole point<\/strong> of Bertino\u2019s original was to prey upon the unseen and the unexplained. Here is the American suburban nightmare: You get attacked for no reason. Nowhere is safe to hide from the whims of the sociopathic. I can\u2019t think of anything less interesting than understanding Scarecrow\u2019s childhood.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the thing: if you\u2019re going to spend time explaining who the titular strangers are, they no longer become strangers, and now they\u2019re a hell of a lot less scary. It\u2019s almost impressive just how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}