The Strangers: Chapter 3 | Film Review

 

After the events of the first two chapters, Maya (Madelaine Petsch) faces off against the masked killers one last time.

I don't know why I keep doing it to myself with these movies, but at least the franchise is (hopefully) over now.

As expected, this was not a good film.

I have no idea why the writers went down the route of giving the killers a backstory, because in all of horror history, these are the killers that least need an explanation. The only reason the first two movies outside of this trilogy worked so well is because there was no reason!

I actually liked the way the film began, maybe I was just hopeful that they would move on from Maya's story, because that's exactly what the movie needed. New characters, fresh blood, another new start.

But that's where the good things started and ended.

There were way too many characters in this one. But in addition to that, they're all dull and badly written. Maya as a main character is one of the issues - I barely cared about her in her first movie, I certainly don't care what happens to her two unnecessary movies later.

The deaths are purely for shock value and don't really move the story forward. But I do think this would have been fine if there weren't so many other problems.

It jumps around way too much. As already stated, the characters don't need a backstory, and we as the audience don't need to be taken away from the main story to explain what happened in the past.

The acting isn't great, but that hasn't changed from the previous movies.

And it feels a lot longer than it is - but that's probably because you're waiting for it to end.

Overall this is entirely my own fault - I knew what this movie was going to be and still went in. But I'm glad that I've finished the trilogy, and that the trilogy itself is over. Now I need to go and watch the two good Strangers movies!

2/10