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[Editor’s note: The following story contains spoilers for “The Strangers: Chapter 1” and “Chapter 2.”]
When Bryan Bertino’s original “The Strangers” hit theaters in 2008, the notorious home invasion horror movie quickly gained a reputation for its divisive, bleak ending. Now, director Renny Harlin and final girl Madelaine Petsch aim to conclude their standalone sequel trilogy in bloody, crowd-pleasing style with “The Strangers: Chapter 3.” Out on February 6 from Lionsgate, the slasher series’ starring trio of sociopathic killers — known by their masked personas, Scarecrow, Dollface, and Pin-Up Girl — return with a new ax to grind, this time freshly imbued with the lore audiences learned in the last two films
Having miraculously survived a terrifying break-in and the senseless murder of her boyfriend Ryan (Froy Gutierrez) in “The Strangers: Chapter 1,” Maya Lucas (Petsch) spends “Chapter 2” once again evading the same three murderers who want her dead, for no discernible reason. She gets her licks in though, and [spoiler alert] at the end the second installment picks off Pin-Up Girl (Ema Horvath) with a lethal neck stabbing/ambulance crash combo that lets Maya escape. Before the credits roll, Scarecrow (Matúš Lajčák) and Dollface (Olivia Kreutzova) stand over Pin-Up Girl’s dead body, mourning their accomplice and flashing audiences back to a strange memory that explained the origin of the groups infamous catchphrase, “Is Tamara home?”
In the new trailer, we see all three familiar attackers back at it, hacking away at helpless victims in a hotel room. But it’s Maya, the only victim to have ever survived the Strangers, wearing Pin-Up Girl’s mask in a different scene. It’s unclear who’s on what side from the promo, but local Oregon good guy Gregory (Gabriel Basso) is back, too, and he’s just as suspicious of Maya as she is of him. And if “The Strangers” has taught us anything in 18 years, it’s that you can sense danger — without knowing why.
“The Strangers: Chapter 1” earned $48.1 million at the global box office in 2024, while last year’s “The Strangers: Chapter 2” made $21.9 million worldwide. Harlin has directed all three, and the final installment is co-written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland. The official summary from Lionsgate reads, “In the final film of ‘The Strangers’ trilogy, Maya (Madelaine Petsch) faces the masked killers one last time in a brutal, full-circle reckoning of survival and revenge.” This is a Fifth Element production, in association with Stream Media and Sherborne Media.
“The Strangers: Chapter 3” is in theaters on February 6. Watch the trailer below.
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