![]() ![]() Bertino has also said he was inspired by the murder of Sharon Tate and her friends by the Manson family. He believes the strangers were casing the neighborhood, as several homes were burgled later on. He said he wrote the story based on an experience he had in childhood where a stranger came to the door while his parents were out and asked for someone who didn’t live there. Who knocks at the door of an empty house in the middle of the night? Not someone who expects an answer.īryan Bertino wrote and directed The Strangers. Hours later as another guest and I were walking slowly down the beach that connected our friend’s cabin to the others along the shore of the lake we heard knocking coming from one of the dark homes we thought were empty for the weekend. The Strangers is a horror movie so uniquely frightening that the summer after it came out the mere mention of it around a campfire at my friend’s remote cabin in northern Minnesota caused half the group to decide it was time to retire and head inside. By Chrissy Stockton Updated December 4, 2021
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