{"id":10837,"date":"2018-12-26T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/?p=10837"},"modified":"2019-01-12T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:35:54","slug":"britt-hayes-says-dont-forget-the-strangers-prey-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/britt-hayes-says-dont-forget-the-strangers-prey-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Britt Hayes Says Don&#8217;t Forget: <i>The Strangers: Prey at Night<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This sequel to Bryan Bertino\u2019s excellent home invasion film was in development for so many years that it began to seem like a bad idea \u2013\u00a0especially when it was revealed that Bertino would <i>not<\/i> be returning to write and direct (though he did produce it). But rather than rehash the wildly effective formula of its predecessor, <strong><i>The Strangers: Prey at Night<\/i><\/strong> takes a different tack: The home invasion plot becomes a slasher throwback, with an appropriate soundtrack to match. Classic hits by Tiffany, Air Supply, and Kim Wilde are the songs that the titular villains listen to while gearing up to kill their prey \u2013\u00a0an unsuspecting family making a stopover at a cabin resort, which becomes the Strangers\u2019 hunting ground. With all the great horror of 2018, it\u2019ll be easy to overlook this surprisingly satisfying gem, which features an all-timer of a slasher sequence that takes place in a swimming pool, set to Bonnie Tyler\u2019s \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sequel to Bryan Bertino\u2019s excellent home invasion film was in development for so many years that it began to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":10838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}