The Strangers: Chapter 2 ReviewAfter surviving Chapter 1’s home invasion, Maya (Petsch) has barely snapped opened her eyes in hospital when she’s again being stalked by masked killers Scarecrow, Dollface and Pin-Up Girl. Renny Harlin’s shoddy 2024 offering, The Strangers: Chapter 1, was essentially a remake of Bryan Bertino’s super-suspenseful 2008 home-invasion chiller The Strangers, in which a couple are tormented by a trio of — you guessed it — strangers. Originality, then, is in short supply, and the storytelling makes hardly a lick of sense as Maya flees from the home-invasion subgenre into slasher and survival horror territory. They’re certainly better at tailing than they are at killing, for it’s their ineptitude as much as Maya’s resourcefulness that allows for escape after escape. What saves The Strangers: Chapter 2 from one-star ignominy is Harlin’s ability to frame the odd eye-catching shot and to mount a half-decent jump scare.