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''The Strangers'' is a 2008 American horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino and starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman as a young couple who are terrorized by three masked assailants, who break into the remote summer home and destroy all means of escape or calling for help by destroying their car, cell phones, and phone line. Produced on a budget of $9 million and after two postponements, the film was released theatrically in North America on May 30, 2008. It grossed $82.3 million at the box office worldwide. Marketed as "inspired by true events", writer and director Bryan Bertino stated that the film was inspired by a series of break-ins that occurred in his neighborhood as a child, as well as some incidents that occurred during the Manson killings. Critical reaction to the film was mixed.〔 It holds a rating of 45% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 151 reviews.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Strangers Movie Reviews, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes )〕 Metacritic reported an average score of 47 out of 100, based on 27 reviews.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Strangers, The (2008): Reviews )〕 ==Plot== The film opens with the statement: "What you are about to see is inspired by true events. According to the FBI, there are an estimated 1.4 million violent crimes in America each year. On the night of February 11, 2005, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt left a friend's wedding reception and returned to the Hoyt summer home. The brutal events that took place there are still not entirely known". It is followed by a recorded 911 call of a boy screaming that he and his friend found two bodies lying in blood in an old vacation house. The film then moves back to when Kristen and James first arrived at the remote vacation house after the wedding reception. James had proposed to Kristen there, but she refused, saying that she is not ready for marriage. James calls his friend Mike to come pick him up in the morning. Shortly after 4 a.m., a young blonde woman, whose face is obscured by low lighting, knocks on the front door asking for Tamara. When told by James and Kristen she is at the wrong house, she asks if they're sure, then leaves with the caveat that she will "see them later". Due to the tension between him and Kristen, James leaves to buy cigarettes for her. Kristen hears another knock on the door; she refuses to open it after realizing that it is the woman from earlier, who has returned to ask for Tamara again. She hears strange noises, and her cellphone goes missing. As her fear grows, Kristen hears a noise from the back door. She grabs a large kitchen knife and opens the curtains covering the glass door to find a man wearing a sack mask staring back at her. Panicked, she hides in the bedroom until James returns. She explains what just transpired and James goes to investigate. He finds his car ransacked and the blonde woman, now wearing a doll mask, watching him from afar. His phone has had its battery stolen and he realizes the house has been breached. The couple attempt to leave in James's car, but a third stranger wearing a pin-up girl's mask drives a pick-up truck into the car, totaling it and forcing them to flee. Back in the house, Kristen and James find a shotgun. Mike arrives early and is accidentally shot by James, who mistakes him for an intruder. A devastated James remembers an old radio transmitter in the backyard shed. He leaves the house and encounters and attempts to shoot Pin-Up Girl, but is ambushed by the masked man. Kristen hears a shot and runs to the shed. She finds the radio and tries to contact someone for help. Pin-Up Girl appears and smashes the radio. Kristen rushes back to the house, where she is confronted by Dollface, who is now armed with a knife. The masked man arrives with the captured James and the gun and incapacitates Kristen. Both James and Kristen are now unconscious. When James and Kristen wake up, they are tied to chairs in the living room, with the masked strangers standing before them. Kristen asks them why they are doing this, and Dollface replies "because you were home". The strangers reveal themselves and take turns stabbing Kristen and James before leaving in the pick-up truck. Two young boys who are distributing religious tracts come to the house, finding the destroyed car on the yard and the front door open. They enter the house and discover the bodies of Kristen and James. Kristen, who is still alive, wakes up and screams. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Strangers (2008 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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