Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195052719
Format: AC-3
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: 2008-10-21
Running Time: 85
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
MPN: MCABR62106176

Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 10/21/2008

Customer Rating:
Summary: The Stupids
Comment: Starts off very slowly, builds tension, then our heroes make some really stupid moves, but recover and gain the upper hand. Then they inexplicably lose the upper hand by making more stupid moves. HINT: If you have a shotgun and masked opponents have only hand tools, they are the prey. Put them down, fast. Sheesh.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Creepiest movie in years
Comment: The teaser for this film is one of the best since "Cloverfield" and the full feature does not disappoint. The director knew what he was doing, creating the scene with ambient sound and keeping the audience on its toes. THIS MOVIE SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Another mindless slasher flick but, "it really happened" we are told
Comment: I need not recount what happens as my title covers it all too well. It is a movie in high demand because that is what big advertising money can do.
As it's supposed to be true, it can't fall back on any supernatural element to help add to the story like HALLOWEEN, and it's endless sequels.
If anything it is an indictment of our society that took place in the 1960's when it was decided by GOVERNMENT that we the people don't need guns
because we have the police to protect us. Unfortunately for the people that bought into that myth, bad things have happened.
Pass on this movie, and wait until it rents for .99 cents, and then don't even bother with it. It's that superficial and bad.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Strangers - Blu-ray Info
Comment: Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
VC-1 BD-25 / Advanced Profile 3
Disc size: 17,61 GB

Version: Theatrical (seamless branching)
Running time: 1:27:31
Movie size: 15,47 GB
Average video bit rate: 17.04 Mbps

Version: Unrated (seamless branching)
Running time: 1:25:11
Movie size: 15,01 GB
Average video bit rate: 16.97 Mbps

DTS-HD Master Audio English 3567 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3567 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 24-bit)
DTS Audio French 768 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit
DTS Audio Spanish 768 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit

Subtitles: English SDH / French / Spanish
Number of chapters: 18

#Featurette: The Elements of Terror (HD - 9 minutes)
#Deleted Scenes (SD - 6 minutes)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not So Original...
Comment: I enjoyed The Strangers; I really did. The setup is simple, the execution frightening. The ending, however polarizing, is truthful to what comes before it and earns its place in the film.

Having said that, I recommend that before seeing this movie, you watch the 2006 French film Them (Ils) on which it was based. No, that's not right. Let me try again. I recommend that before seeing this movie, you watch the 2006 French film Them (Ils) that The Stangers writer-director Bryan Bertino flat-out ripped off. Now that I think about it, "ripped off" might be too kind a term. It insinuates that Bertino simply stole the *idea* of the movie instead of lifting scenes directly from it and planting them in his own movie. It's basic, good old-fashioned plagiarism at work here, and I think Bertino should be a little bit ashamed of himself for thinking that no one would ever notice that he copied an infinitely superior and little-seen French film.

As a punctuation point, when asked during an interview if The Strangers was influenced by an "original movie or other films," Bertino carefully replied: "I don't necessarily think that I looked at it." The title to which the interviewer was referring is not mentioned, but I'm pretty sure it was Them. The similarities are too many to be coincidental, and Bryan Bertino's response is more than vague; it's downright evasive.

You will find the interview here: http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_12591.html

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