'The Strangers: Chapter 3' Struggles to Salvage a Misjudged Trilogy

It’s hard to fathom a less successful and more arbitrary trilogy than Renny Harlin’s recent Strangers reboot, a tri-pronged story which struggled to summon a single film’s worth of incident. Misunderstanding everything that made Bryan Bertino’s original so scary and dashing the general rules of horror filmmaking to boot, Harlin has succeeded only in running the franchise into the ground for the foreseeable future. But give the films one thing: each is substantially better than the last. Given what we’re working with...