The Strangers: Chapter 2

Ninety percent of The Strangers: Chapter 2 involves a woman hiding from masked killers in one idiotic location after another. After narrowly surviving the trio of relentless maniacs in last year’s Chapter 1, the Final Girl, Maya (Madelaine Petsch), wakes up in a small hospital, where she’s apparently the only patient. The hospital management has also shut off all lights, except for a few flickering fluorescents. Her pursuers track her down, and rather than escaping to the Exit, she heads for the boiler room in her patient garb. After that, she tries concealing herself in the worst possible place: the morgue, right next to her fiancé’s corpse. Once outside, she takes a ride from some suspicious passers-by, escapes once again into the woods, and hides behind a fallen tree. Finally, she returns to the murder cabin from the first movie. Maya follows every dumb decision with another, and that makes this sequel a chore to sit through.

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