Eli Roth Presents: The Stranger

Martin (Cristóbal Tapia Montt) is seeking out his wife Ana in a small Canadian town. They both share the same blood disease that resembles aspects of vampire-ism.. He meets a crack head boy Peter (Nicolás Durán) who shows kindness to Martin. The local police and son Caleb (Ariel Levy) prove to to the antagonist. There were too many scenes... Are you alright? You need to go to the hospital/ see a doctor. The film is more akin to a drama/thriller than horror. It has a number of slow scenes where vampires heal and do detective work. Martin becomes a reluctant vigilante, a task he made boring to watch. I am sure this film will have a niche, but not a cult classic. Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity. 3 1/2 stars

It sucked. A waste of time. Take a walk, do anything other than watching this nothing movie

Not what I thought it would be.

Disappointing thriller gets off to an intriguing start but doesnt go anywhere. A mysterious stranger arrives in town inquiring after his wife at the house where she used to live and finds that shes buried in a nearby cemetery. A short while later he is accosted by three young thugs who kick the crap out of him and stab him. A young graffiti artist who witnesses what is happening flags down a police car. Unfortunately it turns out the cop is actually the father of one of the thugs and helps him get rid of the body. Before they have a chance to bury him the cop gets a radio call and tells his son to cover up the body and go home and that he will come back later to finish burying the body. When the cop returns the corpse is gone but the not too bright graffiti artist kid leaves behind a bunch of spray paint cans so the cop has a pretty good idea where to look. The movie goes slowly go downhill from there. The graffiti kid brings the stranger home using a wagon because he isnt quite dead. The stranger reacts violently when the kids mom tries to stitch up his wound, telling her not to touch his blood because hes sick then passes out again. Amazingly the next day the stranger is gone, leaving behind only the familys dead house cat in a small puddle of blood. The young thug and his accomplices turn up at the boys house threatening to torch it with a Molotov cocktail and dont buy the boys claim that the man is still alive. Nothing exciting follows. What the stranger actually turns out to be isnt hard to figure out but hes a grave, self-pitying figure like Brad Pitts character in Interview With A Vampire--if he wants to die so badly whats stopping him, exactly? The Stranger is also bizarrely inconsistent when it comes to sunlight--being in the sun is fatal for the stranger and his kind--except for all of the other times in the movie when it isnt. The Stranger maintains the same dour tone from beginning to end and starts to become monotonous after the first half hour. There are no scares and no suspense and the characters give you no reason to care about them--so what seems promising at first turns into a movie that is a drag to sit through. Eli Roth is presenting this because writer/director Guillermo Amoedo was a writer on recent Eli Roth projects Aftershock, The Green Inferno and Knock Knock. Eli Roth is probably incapable of making a movie as dull and lifeless as The Stranger but writer turned director Amoedo might not have the hang of the directing thing yet or maybe the pretentiousness of The Stranger was something he needed to get out of his system. Better luck next time.

Great flick! It keeps you involved from start to finish. Its amazing what a good director can do on a meager budget.

Good not great still 5 for the story line

Boring and Eli Roth - never thought those two would ever be in the same sentence. But this is the least interesting, most tedious film Ive rented this year. No thrills, chills, twists, or anything even remotely connected to the horror genre. Definitely dont wste your time or money, even if youre a huge Eli Roth fan, like me. Even the audio seemed off and poorly dubbed. I guess he needed some extra change to tip the valet while hes at some nice restaurant planning to turn his career around, so he attached his name to this plodding hunk of junk. After this, and the disaster that was Aftershock, Im definitely hoping he puts in a bit more effort into the genre he was just starting to establish himself in.