Riverdale‘s Madelaine Petsch hears knocking at the door and a voice from outside asks if Tamara’s home in the first clip from The Strangers: Chapter 1. The clip, which debuted at the New York Comic Con before making its way online, ends with someone walking behind Petsch’s character inside the house. Creepy!
Lionsgate offers this description of the first film in the new The Strangers Trilogy:
“From master director Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2, The Exorcist: The Beginning) comes a new trilogy of terror. In Chapter I, Madelaine Petsch stars as a young woman starting a new life with her fiancé. Suddenly, during a road trip stop in a remote vacation rental in the woods, they become the prey of a mysterious gang of masked strangers who attack without warning or reason. What begins as a fight to stay alive becomes one woman’s journey of courage and cunning in this horror series, bridging three compelling films.”
The clip and synopsis confirm Petsch’s character is Chapter One‘s equivalent of Liv Tyler, with Cruel Summer‘s Froy Gutierrez playing a character similar to Scott Speedman’s. The first film of the trilogy was written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland.
The original The Strangers, written and directed by Bryan Bertino, was made for just $9 million. The 2008 R-rated horror film was a surprise hit, grossing $82 million worldwide during its theatrical release.
