THE STRANGERS (15, 85 mins) Horror/Thriller.

ON a technical level The Strangers is a well-crafted killer- chiller with first-time writer and director Bryan Bertino building layers of creepy and super-suspenseful atmosphere.

Canadian-based NEOCLASSICS FILMS LTD.

By Michael Janusonis For his debut feature film, writer-director Bryan Bertino set out to do nothing more than scare the pants off an audience. For most of The Strangers, about a couple who is terrorized late one night in a secluded house by three mask-wearing strangers, he succeeds wildly.

Ever since the trailer for The Strangers was released earlier this year, the Internet has been abuzz with people trying to dig up the details of the real-life incident that inspired the film.