Why The Strangers Still Scares Us
Bryan Bertino’s 2008 sleeper hit was an anomaly in the age of found-footage gimmicks and baroque Saw traps—an eerie minimalist slasher whose masked killers had no backstory or motivation. With the first of three new sequels now in theaters, Bertino and the director and star of the new trilogy talk about the elemental power of home-invasion horror.