Director Johannes Roberts ( The Other Side of the Door, 47 Meters Down), starts things off promisingly, with a 1980s-style title card and a creepy, 1980s-style synthesizer score, as well as some ironically chosen '80s pop songs. Thus, the sequel, The Strangers: Prey at Night, which is completely unnecessary other than as an investment. The original The Strangers (2008) wasn't good (or well-received by either critics or viewers), but it still made lots of money. This 10-years-later sequel to one of the staples of the home-invasion horror subgenre is aggravatingly typical, with baffling lapses in logic, dumb characters, and annoying, all-powerful killers. So overall I enjoyed the movie, and one I would recommend to slasher lovers. And the killers being somewhat invulnerable add to that feature of the slasher flicks as well. I also liked their take on sticking to the cliche slasher horroe genre by having characters that follow where the noise is coming from, or doing stupid things. I felt this movie was enjoyable and ironically intense when you hear songs like, “total eclipse of the heart” playing in the background as the killers are about to make their move. Slasher flicks were a big thing in the 80s and I felt with the addition of 80s music to the movie, prey at night was trying to pay homage to the 80s horror genre. It is set for release in UK cinemas everywhere on December 28th 2012.I don’t know why common sense is hating on the movie for being an aggravating movie.sure the characters aren’t the brightest, and sure the killers come out of nowhere in multiple scenes, but isn’t that the typical slasher flicks for you? If you aren’t into the cliche that is slasher flicks, then yes you may hate this movie, but the first kind of horror movies I watched were slasher flicks slasher classics like Halloween, Friday the 13th, Child’s Play, And Nightmare on Elm Street. It is directed by Andy Fickman ('She's the Man', 'The Game Plan') and written by Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse (previously having worked together on 'Lover Girl' and 'Surf's Up') with re-writes from Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (both of 'Tooth Fairy' and 'Robots'). This heart-warming comedy is a wonderful story about the unity of family. Will Artie and Diane's 'second chance' at parenting teach them that their daughter has got the right approach? Or will the venture end in disaster? Alice certainly realises she's got her work cut out trying to teach her stubborn father how to deal with them, remembering the many occasions he let her down when she was a child. While Diane seems enthusiastic about seeing her grandchildren, Artie is less motivated when he realises that his old fashioned, tough love parenting methods would be lost on the 21st century kids. But all of the actors manage to underplay the physical chaos while bringing enough charm to the film to keep us engaged.Ĭontinue reading: Parental Guidance ReviewĪrtie and Diane Decker are the aging parents of a working mother, Alice, whose busy lifestyle means she has to enlist the help of her parents to look after her three young children while she and her husband Phil go away on a business trip. And every challenge faced by each character (there's a mini-plot for everyone) is fairly easy to navigate. Meanwhile, the writers continually contrive the plot to keep Tomei on screen as much as possible, even though this kind of undermines the whole point of the grandparents being there in the first place. The script never tries to be sophisticated, announcing its important life lessons early on and never putting any of the characters in danger of not learning something. Of course, tech-phobic Artie and hug-loving Diane struggle to keep up with these children they barely know, but they're more resilient and far cleverer than Alice gives them credit for. When she decides to accompany her inventor husband (Scott) to an awards ceremony, she reluctantly agrees to let her parents take care of their three over-protected kids: burgeoning teen daughter Harper (Madison), shy son Turner (Rush) and mop-headed Barker (Breitkopf), a bundle of cheeky energy who immediately renames his granddad "Fartie". Crystal and Midler play Artie and Diane, grandparents who have little contact with their uptight daughter Alice (Tomei), who lives on the other side of the country.
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