Is The Strangers: Prey at Night Scary? The Verdict and the Whole Plot
Yes, 6 out of 10. It's three masked strangers knocking on the door of a secluded trailer park.
🐱THE SCARE SIGNAL
SCARE SCORE
6 /10
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DREAD LEVEL
Medium
Expect a couple of glances at the front door that night, then normal sleep.
DOG
Dog: fine
fine, no dog dies.
Ruling: Watch it with the lights on, and don't open the door for anyone who asks for Tamara.
The Strangers: Prey at Night runs eighty-six minutes. A family drives to a trailer park in Ohio to spend time together before their daughter leaves for boarding school, and three people in masks are already there.
The premise, briefly
A family visits relatives at a secluded trailer park in Ohio, and three masked strangers start knocking on their door.
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How it ends
Kinsey shoots Dollface, blows up two trucks and knocks the Man in the Mask off a truck with a baseball bat. Her parents are dead, and she and Luke survive. In the last scene, loud knocking at the hospital door makes her drop her cup.
The scene you're dreading
The bathroom scene, early: Cindy boosts Kinsey up through a skylight to escape, and Dollface breaks in and stabs Cindy to death while Kinsey gets away.
The dog
No dog dies in The Strangers: Prey at Night. The relatives' dog is never hurt.
It is mostly masked strangers stalking a family around a trailer park, and it gets easier once you know Kinsey and Luke make it.
THE SHORT VERSION IS HIDDEN
How it ends, the scene you're dreading, what happens to the dog, and the bottom line. About twenty seconds to read.
What actually happens
Please knock again
Before anyone else arrives, Dollface, Pin-Up Girl and the Man in the Mask reach an isolated trailer park in Kalida, Ohio, and murder Sheryl and Marvin, an older couple. The following day, Cindy, who is their niece, turns up with her husband Mike and their children, eighteen-year-old Luke and sixteen-year-old Kinsey, for a family visit before Kinsey leaves for boarding school. An unmasked Dollface knocks at the door and asks for Tamara, and Cindy sends her away. She comes back and is turned away a second time. Kinsey and Luke find their uncle's body in another trailer, and Cindy and Kinsey discover their cell phones have been smashed, and then Dollface attacks. This is the scene people dread most, and it comes early: they hide in the bathroom, Cindy helps Kinsey climb out through the skylight, and Dollface breaks in and stabs Cindy to death.
Mike and Luke find a voicemail Cindy left for her uncle before the trip and realize the strangers have been waiting for them all along. They fight off the Man in the Mask, then find Cindy dead. While they search for Kinsey in the van, the Man in the Mask drops a cinder block on the windshield and crashes it. Mike is impaled on a wooden plank and hands Luke the gun, and then the Man in the Mask kills him with an ice pick. Kinsey runs into Pin-Up Girl, who stabs her in the thigh until Luke rescues her. He hides her under a porch and runs to the general store to call 911, but Pin-Up Girl cuts the line. Luke gets away to the swimming pool and overpowers her there. The Man in the Mask then stabs him in the back and leaves him to drown, and Kinsey pulls him out.
Two trucks and a gas leak
A deputy finds Kinsey, and Dollface kills him almost at once. Kinsey takes a shotgun from the deputy's patrol vehicle and shoots Dollface in the chest. She pulls off Dollface's mask and demands a reason, and Dollface answers, "Why not?" Kinsey shoots her in the head. The Man in the Mask rams the back of the police SUV with his truck, and both vehicles get stuck together. Kinsey notices that both gas tanks are leaking, so she sets the leak on fire and blows up both trucks.
The ending, explained
The Man in the Mask lives through the explosion and chases Kinsey while badly hurt, until he yanks a shard of glass out of his stomach and collapses. Kinsey waves down a truck on the road, but the driver speeds off when he sees the burned man creeping up behind her with an axe. She jumps into the truck bed, and the man climbs up after her. She swings a baseball bat she finds there at his head and knocks him off, and the camera stays on him lying in the road, lifeless. Some time later, Kinsey and Luke are in a hospital. She wakes to loud knocks and a turning doorknob, and she drops her cup of water.
The post-credits ruling
Nobody has confirmed whether there's a scene after the credits.
✓ Spoiled safelyDog status: fine, no dog dies.
Questions people ask at 1am
Is The Strangers: Prey at Night scary?
Yes, The Strangers: Prey at Night is a 6 out of 10. It is a stalking movie with several jump scares, some graphic violence, and a feeling of dread that lasts until you go to sleep.
How does The Strangers: Prey at Night end?
Kinsey kills Dollface with a shotgun, blows up two trucks, and knocks the Man in the Mask off a moving truck with a baseball bat. Her parents are dead, and she and Luke survive.
Does the dog die in The Strangers: Prey at Night?
No, no dog dies in The Strangers: Prey at Night. Sheryl and Marvin have a dog, and it is never hurt.
Is there a post-credits scene in The Strangers: Prey at Night?
Nobody has confirmed whether The Strangers: Prey at Night has a scene after the credits.
Who are the killers in The Strangers: Prey at Night?
Three masked strangers called Dollface, Pin-Up Girl and the Man in the Mask. In The Strangers: Prey at Night they show up at a trailer park in Kalida, Ohio, after the events of the first film.
BLURRED FOR YOUR PROTECTION
The whole plot of The Strangers: Prey at Night is hidden, ending included. It stays that way until you ask.
You don't have to hear the knocking in The Strangers: Prey at Night to know how it ends. Install Scaredy Cat and it blurs horror before you see it.
