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‘The Strangers: Chapter 2’ Opens To Harsh Reviews And Soft Box Office As Trilogy Presses Forward

Filmmakers defend a limited peek into the killers’ pasts without offering an origin.

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"My cortisol was through the roof," Madelaine Petsch says of filming those flight-or-fight scenes in "The Strangers" trilogy. "I get into a fight with an animal in this movie. I never even thought I would get close to doing that thing. The things that we get to do as actors, we just get to play all the time. It's the coolest thing."
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Overview

  • The sequel hit theaters on September 26 as the middle entry in Renny Harlin’s three-part reboot starring Madelaine Petsch.
  • Early box-office estimates point to roughly $2.2 million on Friday and about $5.5 million for the opening weekend.
  • Critical reception is overwhelmingly negative with very low aggregator scores, though several reviews single out Petsch’s performance and some technical craft.
  • All three films were shot back-to-back in 2022 in about 52 days, with subsequent rewrites and additional photography that Petsch helped steer as an executive producer.
  • Chapter 2 continues Maya’s survival arc across new locations and uses selective flashbacks that stop short of a full origin, tees up the already completed Chapter 3, and is expected to follow Lionsgate’s typical PVOD and STARZ windows.