The Strangers:My review

The strangers opens with a somewhat creepy narrative where the narrarator tells you there are so many violent crimes each year in america and about the events that in particular happened to Kristen and James,played by liv tyler and Scott Speedman. The opening with the narrative is eerily reminscent of the texas chainsaw massacre's opening. From that moment on you think ok this could be creepy.

Kristen and James arrive back at a secluded house after attending a friends wedding. And I mean secluded,doesn't look like there is a house anywhere near this one. They are in the midst of some relationship troubles. In the middle of an intimate moment there is a very loud knock on the door, that only gets louder and louder. Eventually they answer and there is some girl who aks them if tamara is home. They send her away thinking she is confused. After this James goes out to pick up some cigarettes leaving kristen alone in this huge eery house. While gone the knocks on the dooor happen again and pick up even more intensity. Eventually Kristen becomes convinced someone is in the house after she finds a smke dectector she took apart put back togther. Pretty creepy moment right there. When James returns Kristen is hysterical, convinced that someone is still in the house. They soon both realize they are both in grave danger. There are some genuine creepy moments in this film from the loud pounding knocks on the door that become so intense it even startles you, to a case of mistaken identity, and to the masks worn by the people doing this. One burlap sap mask in particular is the best. Also the way these "strangers" terrorize and at times just mess with and scare kristen and james is quite saidstic. The ending while simple is quite frightening.

Drected by Bryan Bertino this fim shows that all it takes for a scary movie is simplicity and realism. You don't need torture or even blood or convuluted plots to make a movie truly terrifying. There also is no cgi or big budget effects which make this seem even more organic. Both Tyler and Speedman give good performances that are not to over the top that they are unbelievable. Honestly one of the scariest things to me is knowing that someone is in your house unwelcomed. What is simpler and scarier than that?

Game #16 Lightning@Rangers

Have missed some game recaps,have watched them but have been unable to write about them.Really busy.Anyways after a couple dissappointing losses to the Leafs and then piles the Rangers looked to rebound tonight with a game against the lightning.Things started good when Ryan Callahan scored on the PP after a nice pass from Zherdev.In the second the unthinkable happened,Chris Drury horrible all season offensively scores a sh goal on a breakaway.However soon after Martin st louis scores on a nifty move in close to cut it to 2-1.After 2 its 2-1 Rangers.The third starts and we get shock a PP goal and a second goal from chris drury.Next Ryan Malone scores on a tricky shot that Henrik maybe should have had.Tampa was firing all night,shooting as much as possible.Marc Staal answers right back on a pass from Zherdev to make it 4-2.Then after Smith hacks Aaron Voros in front 3 times in a row a fight begins with Smith(the goalie) and voros.lol.Smith gets 9 PIMs and the Rangers add another PP goal as drury nets a hat-trick.Rangers win 5-2.Very nice to finally see some offense and some PP goals.Drury had a nice game and hoepfully this gets him going offensively.Henrik with another sharp game,36 saves.He is the team right now.
Soup for Drury,Henrik and Nik Z
no soup for:no one really played bad
next game saturday against the caps

Game #11 Pens@Rangers

First meeting since the Pens knocked off the Rangers last spring.I despise Crosby but more for the fact how all these commentatots suck the guy off. Like he is the only reason to watch hockey.Crosby this,crosby that.Malkin is better than that crybaby crosby.Anyways about half way through the first Daryl sydor made it 1-0 Pens on a slapper that beat Henrik. The Rangers really didn't look that great the first but did have some chances. Crosby scored in the second to give the Rangers a 2-0 lead. The Ranger had a full 5-3 PP but since their PP is awful they couldn't do anything and actually lost momentum from this. Chris Drury is dreadful to watch on offense so far this season.Second ends Rangers still trail 2-0 and I admit I really don't have any hope for them starting the third trailing 2-0. They get a PP in the third and Naslund is able to cash in and score to make it 2-1.A big PP goal from Naslund who'd been struggling also.We get down to under a minute the Rangers are still trailing 2-1 and off a brillant pass from Naslund that was started by a nice Dubie play Nik Zherdev scores off a wicked wrist shot to tie the game at 2 with 9 seconds left.Holy shit!I did not expect that.Rangers get a point and we go to OT.In ot the pens get 4 shots all turned aside by Henrik.We go to a shootout.Zherdev stopped by fleury,letang stoned by Henrik,Dawes stifled by Fleury.Sykora stopped by Henrik.Sjostrom comes in third for the Rangers and scores off a nice deke and barely beats Fleury.Rangers lead.Crosby is last for the Pens.Crosby does a bunch of dekes and head movements and Henrik doesn't flinch at any of them and stops Crosby.HAHAHA!Henrik owns Crosby,Rangers win in a shootout.Next game Mon at the nassau coliseum against the isles(piles)
Soup for Zherdev,Henrik and Dubinsky
No soup for Chris Drury

Game #10 Rangers@Columbus

Before this game even started I had bad feelings considering the Rangers normally do not play good against the jackets especially in their building. Things started off bad also as Jakub Voracek scored to give the jackets a 1-0 lead.The Rangers did very little well in the first period. They started off the second a little better and Henrik Lundqvist continued his outstanding play.Dan Girardi scores off a shot from the point on an assist from Zherdev to tie the game at 1. Later on in a controversial call,Brandon Dubinsky scored on a redirection of his skate on a pass by Zherdev to give the Rangers a 2-1 lead.It was deemed the kicking motion was after the puck went in so the goal stood.The Rangers caught a break there imo. In the third once again Henrik came up big with some great saves to keep the Rangers in the lead. Later on Nik Zherdev scored on a brillant backhander he lifted to the top corner to gibe the Rangers a 3-1 lead and thats who it would end.Nik Z was very good in his return to columbus,the kid is extremely talented and this was a huge game for him.Henrik also was very sharp and my pick for player of the game.Next game versus the Penguins.
Soup for Zherdev and Lundqvist
no soup for Chris Drury

Game #9 stars@Rangers

I was really pumped for this game.The return of my favorite player Sean Avery to the garden,his first since signing with the stars in the offseason.Before warm ups he was already yapping at Valliquette and Dubinsky.This is what I lvoed about the guy,he always made sames entertaining. Well the Rangers got off to a quick start when Markus Naslund scored to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead.Kind of a dull period,Avery was yapping with Henrik and Dubie again and actually got some boos.Orr also gave him a sucker punch.I would have cheered him like crazy. The second period was not good,the Rangers looked flat and what chances they had they missed the net on. Brendan Morrow scored a nice goal from the ice to tie the game at 1. Chris Drury btw still is invisible. The third also sucked for the Rangers,not much offense,I think all these games in so many nights has finally caught up to them. Mike Modano scored next to give the stars a 2-1 lead and thats how it would end. The Rangers were unable to muster anything else offensively.Sean Avery had a pretty quiet game for the most part. The Rangers really need to get Drury playing cause right now he looks like shit and I'd bench the guy,captain or not. Next game friday at columbus
soup for hmmm Henrik Lundqvist
no soup for Drury and most forwards except Dubie and Gomez who played well.

Game #8 Rangers@Red-wings

I'll start by saying I didn't have expectations for this game seeing how good detroit is and how much we have struggled in heckeytown. From the get go it looked like I would be right, 2 quick goals by the wings had me going "oh boy this is going to get ugly quick. However Ryan Callahan scored off a beautiful pass from Gomez to get the Rangers into the game. A much needed goal cause it was looking like we were intimidated by the wings who were without Henrik Zetterberg. First ended with a 2-1 wings lead. Eventually Holmstrom would make it 3-1 wings with a nice goal.However the Ranger showed resiliency when Nigel finally i showed up to play Dawes scored his first goal of the season. The new line of Gomez,Dawes and Callahan played really well. The second ended with the Rangers trailing 3-2. The third began and i was thinking well at least we are hanging with them. But then boom Aaron Voros scores 2 goals to give the Rangers a 4-3 lead.wow!!!!!!!!!!However the refs decided to call a too many men on the ice penalty to the Rangers(a marginal call) and detroit capitilized when Jiri Hudler tied it up at 4. Henrik Lundqvist made some big saves down the stretch to get this game into OT. OT however ended really fast when Hossa scored 23 seconds in off a pass from datsyuk.Shame we lost but we did get a point out of this.Stll waiting for Chris Drury to show up for a game,naslund also.
Soup for the Gomez line and Dubie Line.
No soup for Chris Drury and Markus Naslund...wake the fuck up please.
Next game Monday night against SEAN AVERY and the stars.

Game #7 Leafs at Rangers

The Rangers coming off their first loss of the season decide to start Valliquette in goal saving Henrik for Dallas and Detroit. Vally was coming off a damn good game against Philly. He has played some good games against the leafs dating back to last season.The Rangers looking for scoring from their first line switched some lines around. Cally was moved up to play with Gomez and Dawes was back in the lineup to play on this line.Drury moved down to the third line to center fritsche and naslund.The first happened to be one of the most boring periods i've watched in recent times.Gomez can't finish,drury is invisible and nas looked washed up.Scoreless first. More of the same the second,Drury had some more chances and still sucks.All around no one can finish at the moment.Vesa Toskala did play pretty good for the leafs.Another scoreless period. the third is where it actually became funny how bad we are at finishing.On one shift we hit both posts on one shot and the crossbar on the following shot. Laughable. Vally did make some nice saves and we head into overtime where each team had one good chance.OT ends,shootout time. Zherdev scores,Vally stops Stajan. Dawes misses. Kulemin scores. Sjostrom scores. Vally stops the rat Blake. Rangers win. Still have just one line that can score and 3 that can't finish.
One thing greatly missed about these 2 teams was the constant Avery vs Tucker feud. Those 2 definitely would have made this game more watchable.
Soup for Valliquette,Zherdev
No soup for Drury,Naslund
Next game: at Detroit