“ Foreigners “last because of its dark simplicity – and its average sequence of one kilometer

Foreigners – Chapter 2 Through soon in theaters, continuing the history of the restart of 2024. The trailer suggests a history of hospital hunt in the vein of the 1982 Halloween II. But it’s hard to imagine Foreigners Take in mind the 2008 original, a brutal agony for home invasion which suggests that even the most ruthless evil can be as simple as random.

Written and directed by Bryan Bertino, Foreigners is the kind of high -budget and high -performance horror film that the heads of studio dreams of. He also has a fairly dreamy cast: Liv Tyler, just a few years spent RingsAnd Scott Speedmanidem Praise And Underworld. They are both excellent in what is essentially a story of two people – with three masked antagonists pursuing them, of course.

Foreigners Open with a The Texas chain saw the massacre-Annonce of style that “what you are about to see was inspired by real events”. We get a brief riff on violent crimes in America, a quick staging to present the main couple, and a warning that “the brutal events that have taken place are still not fully known”. Then, we hear a call to the panicked 911 of one of the children who discovers the consequences soaked in blood from what we are about to see.

Something terrible happens. This is certain. But Foreigners Logs our thoughts away from this while we settle with James (Speedman) and Kristen (Tyler), leading in clumsy silence. They have just left an official event and you can say that something uncomfortable has happened between them.

At first, it looks like a break, but we soon learn – when they arrive in an isolated holiday home that belongs to James’ family – that James proposed marriage and was rejected (“I’m just not ready,” explains Kristen). The cabin has been pre-decorated for a celebration that will not occur. The atmosphere is full of raw sadness, although there are still feelings there, as evidenced by a romantic interlude which becomes scorching as there is a very unexpected and very unwelcome blow at the door.

This visitor – who says that she is looking for someone named “Tamara”, then fled with a “very worrying” to see later ” – is the first turn in Foreigners. At just under 90 minutes away, the film is an expert, dropping this frightening exhibition at the start, followed by a melancholic sequence which is slowly chipped by the growing distress which comes as Kristen – left alone when James goes conscientiously to buy her cigarettes – begins to realize that she has real problems. It is not a farce. It is life or death.

Foreigners Tops mainly in and around a single home, and the house is easy for invaders to penetrate. But they take their time, and the film carefully draws the feeling that security is moving away, which makes a particularly effective use of sound design as a frightening tactic.

The sound of a door closed in a house supposedly empty has rarely been so embarrassing the nerves, but there is also a strange ambient noise to lose. Is it a twig that slaps under the foot of a harasser? Are these wind caryals blow in the breeze or are they manipulated by human hands? The sounds become more shocking: a drilling smoke detector is triggered, and the intruders suddenly pass to the shot frantically on the doors and the walls, terrorizing Kristen and James as well as the public.

Music is also very well used to increase tension. The score helps to tighten the screws, just like a tour of the house which is used to bring the dismal sounds of Joanna Newsom and Gillian Welch in history – as well as, later in the film, a drop of Haggard Merle, particularly well placed.

Foreigners“The most burning visual comes from the permission of the masks worn by the intruders: the man in the mask (KIP Weeks), the pin-up girl (Laura Margolis) and Dollface (Gemma Ward). They are all as frightening, with the informed disguise and similar to the contrasting man with the artificially glamorous outfits of women.

But while you might think of the masks first when you call Foreigners In mind, reviewing the film reminds you that the masks are not at all the most important dishes in the film. (No longer the surprising cameo of It is always beautiful in Philadelphia Star Glenn Howrton, but it’s a fun thing to look for.)

Foreigners has become a cult favorite because it is really frightening, maximizing the worst case of being targeted by ruthless killers, but doing it in a bare manner that makes it so much more alarming. And the foreigners of the title are not only the killers – they intend to play with their prey, like a cat with a mouse, before delivering the bloody highlight which promised in the opening moments of the film.

The trailer of Foreigners Unfortunately, revealed what is probably his scary moment, that is to say that Kristen and James finally get an answer to the question they asked all the time: “Why are you doing this?” The answer, of course: “Because you were at home.”

Foreigners Demons need no other reason, and this implies that this is only the last notch of their belt, because one of the women says: “It will be easier next time”. This is the only overview of humanity that we get the trio, and it happens from the crime scene, probably on their way to find new victims. You can see why a suite (published in 2018) and the Restarting series occurred; Foreigners Leave a juicy and open premise in its wake.

But you wish in a way that it has remained in this lonely house on this empty rear route. As an autonomous nightmare that explains something completely vicious with “Why?” / Because!” – Infused of realism that makes you think could really happens like that –Foreigners left its lasting brand on the Slasher genre.

Foreigners is streaming on a premium video.

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