The Strangers

The Strangers

“Lock the door. Pretend you're safe.”

May 29, 2008R1h 26mTMDB ★ 6.1

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

Genres

Horror

Studio

Intrepid Pictures

Language

en

Status

Released

Box Office

How The Strangers performed

Budget

$9.0M

Worldwide Gross

$83.1M

Gross Profit

$74.1M

Return

9.2× budget

Opening Wknd (est.)

$16M

Domestic (est.)
International (est.)
$37M$47M

Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~44/56, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (45% of the domestic run, typical for Horror) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.

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