The Strangers: Prey at Night
kinda like THE FOG but instead of the villain being the revenant of yr father’s blood money sins it is <PERSON>-era nostalgia coming back to murder the modern working class family. unexpectedly riveting as a kooky reflexive genre exercise and even moreso b/c it is willing to recognize that killers and victims have bodies w/bones that crunch and chests that bleed when stabbed. some images can lean too heavy on a reference (the TCSM riff at the end is slightly unnecessary) but this actually seems lived-in and unique in style/approach for one of these 80s neon genre callbacks, which is more than I can rly say for the majority of recent horror films. 645