Spoiler-Free Thoughts On The Strangers: Chapter 1, Plus A Career-Spanning Interview with Renny Harlin
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.4 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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On the May 17, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to talk about The Strangers: Chapter 1 and present an interview with the movie’s director, Renny Harlin.
How is The Strangers: Chapter 1?
In Our Feature Presentation: An Interview with Renny Harlin
What is Jacob’s relationship to the Strangers films?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Friday, May 17th, 2024. |
| 0:04.4 | On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about The Strangers Chapter 1 and we're going to present |
| 0:08.7 | an interview with the movie's director, Rennie Harlan. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slash film |
| 0:13.3 | dot com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor Jacob Paul. |
| 0:16.7 | Hello hello. All right Jacob so full disclosure we're actually recording this a few |
| 0:20.4 | days earlier than the movie actually coming out. |
| 0:23.4 | So I have not had a chance to see The Strangers Chapter 1 yet, but I'm curious what you make |
| 0:27.5 | of this movie. |
| 0:28.5 | Tell me about what you think about it. |
| 0:30.1 | I like the Strangers Chapter 1. |
| 0:31.7 | I have issues with it. I a lot people may share and I know that by this point you can go on to slash them |
| 0:38.6 | and read our review from a different critic who did not care for it but But when it works, which is, I think, frequently enough to be worth your time, |
| 0:47.0 | it's a very spooky, very scary, very well-constructed home invasion thriller. |
| 0:52.0 | Like I discussed what I think maybe where it has this weekend |
| 0:56.0 | elements that can get into spoiler territory, maybe we can have a conversation later. |
| 1:00.0 | But it is just a really stly made, you know, just one of those. |
| 1:08.8 | It sounds like I'm being negative or like trying to be dismissive here, but I don't mean that because I think that |
| 1:15.6 | Making a good horror movie that delivers the scares gets in and out in under 90 minutes. |
| 1:22.5 | You know, there's real talent involved |
| 1:25.9 | in just making these damn things work in anyway whatsoever. |
| 1:29.6 | And that's kind of why I want to speak to Rennie Harlan. |
| 1:31.9 | Ben, are you a Rennie Harlan fan? My to Renee Harlan. Ben, are you a Renee Harlan fan? |
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