If you like your horror films to have the main characters do every stupid thing possible then watch this.

"Hey let's leave all of our phones unattended in one place even though we're clearly suspicious of a creepy person outside."

"Hey let's leave my wife and daughter behind while I go investigate a crime scene."

"Hey it's two against one let's not try to defend ourselves whatsoever."

"Hey I'm just gonna turn my back and let this waifish girl kill me in front of my daughter without even attempting to fight back."

"Hey it's two against one again and also I have a gun, let's NOT shoot the psychopath who killed my mom and just run away. Let's also leave the gun behind and completely forget about it a few moments later."

"Hey let's leave my stabbed brother behind without attempting to patch the wound and stop the bleeding in any way."

"Hey let's not warn the cop there's a masked killer behind him even though the killer is clearly in my field of vision."

"Hey I found a shotgun, let's leave it behind and run away on foot."

"Hey I'm a killer with a perfectly functioning vehicle and could quite easily run the wounded 15-year-old over, let's stop and walk outside the car for no reason."

why movie, why

Let me be clear I HATED The Strangers (2008) and certainly didn't expect them to make a sequel a full decade later.

I'm not entirely sure what it was about the first movie, but it just came across as entirely one sided devoid of purpose and basically plot torture porn and that did nothing for me.

This time around we see a family set up camp in a trailer park only to come under siege by the same three masked psychotics. Among them the stunning Christina Hendricks and former child star Bailee Madison.

Thankfully what we're presented with isn't so one sided and does have a plot. Sure the plot is the time honored generic slasher one but it's a plot all the same.

So what does it have going for it? Well for a start the soundtrack is great as is the score. It fits the movie perfectly and is refreshingly retro. Ontop of that we have some great cinematography, the movie certainly has style.

So it looks great, it sounds great and we have Hendricks on board. So what went wrong? Well other than it being generic, Hendricks isn't the big character you'd imagine so forget about her being the leading lady. To make matters worse it falls into many of the standard slasher pitfalls so we've seen the majority of it before.

This is a vast improvement over the first movie, but it's still just another slasher.

The Good:

Christina Hendricks

A few decent shots

Fitting soundtrack

The Bad:

Christina Hendricks is wasted

Generic stuff

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who awkwardly laughs when in pain

If they keep up with the improvements they might have an average movie eventually