10 Horror Movies That Aren’t About What You Think
7. The Strangers: Prey At Night
Fans waited a decade for a sequel to The Strangers, and when it eventually arrived it was far from what they expected, though not in a bad way.
Initially, this second movie seems like a natural continuation of the first, with the titular family of strangers hunting down a series of victims in a trailer park. Though not a home invasion in the regular sense, all the beats are hit: phones are destroyed, people are stalked, and characters are killed in brutal ways.
After this though the sequel shifts in focus and suddenly it becomes less a movie about the villains killing a band of hapless victims, but the victims fighting back and taking out each member of the murderous family.
It inverts the slasher trope, as the remaining heroes kill off their tormentors one by one.
I suppose that's one way to get fans from spending years begging for another sequel.