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Movie - The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)


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In 2017, in the small town of Venus, Oregon, a man named Jeff Morell is ambushed in the woods by three masked assailants—Scarecrow, Dollface, and Pin-Up Girl. Scarecrow ultimately kills Jeff with an axe.

Some time later, Maya and her boyfriend Ryan are driving across the country to Portland, where she is due for a job interview, while celebrating their five-year anniversary. En route, they stop to eat at a diner in Venus, where they encounter a few hostile locals. While at the diner, the couple notices a missing persons poster for Jeff. When their car breaks down, the town's mechanic, Rudy, agrees to fix it by the next morning. Shelly, a friendly waitress, drives the couple to a secluded Airbnb cabin in the woods for them to stay the night.

That night, as Maya and Ryan settle into the cabin, a mysterious young woman knocks on the front door, asking if Tamara is home, and the couple dismisses her. Realizing he left his inhaler behind in the car, Ryan goes back into town with a motorcycle from the Airbnb to retrieve it. While alone in the house, Maya is unnerved when the mysterious woman again comes to the door asking for Tamara. As she showers, Maya is unaware of Scarecrow silently watching her. When the power goes out, Maya encounters Dollface and hides in a closet in fear. Ryan returns, dismissing the incident as a hallucination, as Maya had smoked marijuana earlier. Outside, they find the mysterious woman watching them from a distance, before Ryan chases her off.

While eating dinner, Maya and Ryan are horrified to find a dead chicken with its throat slit hanging from the ceiling. As the three masked strangers break into the house, Maya and Ryan barricade themselves in the bedroom. Scarecrow smashes the door open with his axe and stares at the couple, before leaving the house. The couple tries to escape with the motorcycle, but it is blown up by Scarecrow. Using the home's crawlspace, they narrowly avoid being found as Maya accidentally stabs her hand on a nail. Once they make it to a nearby shed, Ryan finds a shotgun and rescues Maya from being attacked by Pin-Up Girl and Scarecrow.

As the couple exits the shed, Ryan hears footsteps on the front porch and fires the shotgun, only to find that he has killed Joe, the property's owner. They attempt to escape in Joe's car, but Scarecrow repeatedly rams the car with his truck. When Ryan's leg becomes stuck, he urges Maya to run away. Ryan unsuccessfully attempts to shoot Scarecrow, who flees into the woods. Hiding in the woods, Maya calls 911 on Joe's cell phone despite the poor signal, while discovering Jeff's decaying corpse. As Maya tries to escape, Dollface knocks her out and drags her away. Meanwhile, Ryan holds Pin-Up Girl at gunpoint, demanding to know Maya's whereabouts. Scarecrow then knocks him out as well.

Both awaken tied to chairs in the house. In their last moments together, Ryan proposes to Maya, and she tearfully accepts. Pin-Up Girl fatally stabs Ryan in the stomach before Scarecrow knocks his chair over, leaving him to bleed out. Maya demands to know why they are doing this, to which Pin-Up Girl replies, "Because you're here." Scarecrow then stabs Maya in the stomach and knocks her over as well. Police sirens are heard approaching and the perpetrators flee the scene. Maya later awakens in a hospital bed, having survived the ordeal. As she rises from the bed, Scarecrow is lying beside her.

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