20 Most WTF Moments From 2025 Horror Movies

19. The Wild Boar Attack - The Strangers - Chapter 2

Shelby Oaks
Lionsgate

The Strangers - Chapter 2 is a mostly miserable, forgettable follow-up to a franchise reboot nobody was really asking for, and when you're rebooting something on a budget, of course it makes sense to throw a CGI animal into the mix.

Because having our embattled protagonist Maya (Madelaine Petsch) flee from masked killers for 90 minutes apparently wasn't enough, there's a head-scratcher of a mid-film sequence where she escapes into a forest and is attacked by a wild boar. The result is an unintentionally hilarious and bafflingly overlong set-piece where Maya attempts to hide from the boar inside a car, before finally being forced to fight it and eventually stab it to death.

Now fair's fair - the VFX work looks relatively passable for an $8.5 million movie - but did anyone need this totally random diversion in a film about masked killers hunting people?

It feels like something that was added to the script last-minute to pad the runtime out to a contractually obligated 90 minutes.

 
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