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‘The Strangers: Chapter 2’ Came Home to Digital Outlets Today
After flopping at the box office with just $15.9 million worldwide in total, Renny Harlin’s The Strangers: Chapter 2 has now been unceremoniously dumped onto Digital at home.
You can rent The Strangers: Chapter 2 on Digital at home for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99. The physical media release will follow in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.
The good news for Lionsgate is that Chapter 2 had a reported production budget of just $8.5 million. The bad news? The film’s opening weekend suggests that The Strangers: Chapter 3 is destined to be a box office bomb, which begs the question of how Lionsgate should approach the release of the final film in this planned trilogy. Do you give it a pricey marketing push and bring it to theaters as originally planned? Or do you just dump the film to VOD at this point? We’ll keep you posted as we learn more about Lionsgate’s plan for this ill-conceived trilogy.
The trilogy was filmed simultaneously over the course of 52 days in Slovakia, but the additional shoot for the second and third installments brought the shoot to a total of around 80 days.
In The Strangers: Chapter 2, “The Strangers are back – more brutal and relentless than ever. When they learn that one of their victims, Maya (Madelaine Petsch), is still alive, they return to finish what they’ve started. With nowhere to run and no one to trust, Maya must survive another horrific chapter of terror as The Strangers – driven by a senseless, unceasing purpose – pursue her, more than willing to kill anyone who stands in their way.”
Meagan writes in her 1-star review for Bloody Disgusting, “The Strangers: Chapter 2 throttles and chokes out any lingering interest in the Strangers and this confounding trilogy.”
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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