The Stranger
A mysterious man arrives in a small Canadian town seeking his wife, though his presence plunges the community into a bloodbath.
19 September 1989, Las Condes, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
28 January 1985, Austin, Texas, USA
12 December 1962, Santiago, Chile
8 August 1984, Las Condes, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
28 September 1984, Providencia, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
October 05, 2015
The film is a different spin on the vampire myth, but the sluggish pace and gaps in logic prevent it from having the impact you really want from a story of this type.
June 12, 2015
It's a lousy little film that is so dark and joyless that it leaves you feeling like you wasted your time watching it.
June 10, 2015
For viewers who don't need to suck down every last drop of vampire lore, The Stranger never gets the blood pumping.
June 17, 2015
The Stranger feels like a piece of genre revisionism only in its deliberate, grinding pace, not in any refreshing turns of the plot.
February 22, 2016
The genre deserves better, audiences deserve better, and the people of Chile deserve better than this lazy, artless nonsense.
June 13, 2015
The characters are uninteresting, the mood is dour, and the big supernatural twist barely elicits a shrug. No thanks.
June 11, 2015
The abundant violence in "The Stranger" ... is certainly nothing new. But the movie benefits greatly from Mr. Amoedo's largely steady direction and the uniform acting skills of its Chilean cast
December 07, 2015
While it's in no way perfect, there's enough going on to keep you guessing where it's headed.
June 11, 2015
The Stranger is far from a perfect film, but it's admirably eerie and remarkably restrained.
June 10, 2015
"Twilight" had vampires that sparkled in the sun. "The Stranger" offers another twist: bloodsuckers that bore you to death.
June 16, 2015
The Stranger is a murky drifter story with vampiric influences, but what starts as a mysterious quest soon turns into just another run-of-the-mill monster movie.
June 11, 2015
An amateur play at gravitas, one unsupported by dully weighted scenes and clunky dialogue, delivered mostly by English-speaking actors straining to hide Latin accents.
