20 Horror Movies That Revealed TOO MUCH

20. The Strangers - Chapter 2

The entire point of The Strangers franchise is right there in the title - the antagonists are strangers who neither the victims nor the audience ever learn much about, and whose motives amount to nothing more than pure random sadism.

The recent The Strangers - Chapter 2 decided to toss this mantra away by offering up a wholly unasked-for deep dive into the backstories of two of the masked killers, Pin-Up Girl and Scarecrow.

Through laughable flashback sequences that reek of "we added this in reshoots," we learn that, as a child, Pin-Up Girl beat another girl, Tamara, to death at school in a fit of jealous rage over her friendship with the boy who would become Scarecrow.

Beyond needlessly pathologising the villains from their youth, it also lent a totally pointless origin story to the Strangers' iconic catchphrase, "Is Tamara home?," which is revealed to be a knocking game played by Tamara and Scarecrow at school.

When a franchise is coming up with fresh nonsense like this, you know it's totally run out of juice.