The film, The Strangers Chapter 3, serves as the brutal, conclusive chapter of the rebooted trilogy. It picks up immediately after the events of Chapter 2, with final girl Maya (Madelaine Petsch) having just killed one of the masked killers, Pin-Up Girl (Shelly). Maya desperately tries to escape the isolated town of Venus, Oregon, while the remaining two killers — Scarecrow (the leader, Gregory) and Dollface — are now hunting her with renewed purpose.

The movie is the most brutal and action-heavy entry, delivering plenty of intense jump scares, gory kills, and a dark, psychological edge as it explores what it actually takes to turn someone into one of “the Strangers.”

Madelaine Petsch absolutely carries this entire trilogy — her performance as Maya is phenomenal. She sells the exhaustion, terror, rage, and raw survival instinct perfectly across all three films. Renny Harlin’s overall vision for this expanded story is ambitious and cohesive; shooting the whole trilogy as one giant piece really pays off in Chapter 3, giving it a sense of real culmination. In our interview with Harlin he speaks on an ultimate cut of all three films!

Most importantly — fans of the first two films will be very satisfied. This finale finally ties up the major threads, delivers a tour de force performance by Petsch, and gives the story the decisive (and bloody) ending the previous chapters were building toward. If you’ve been invested in Maya’s nightmare so far, Chapter 3 feels like the payoff you’ve been waiting for.

7/10.