The Strangers: Chapter 2 manages to be an improvement over its predecessor, but still feels like it's betraying the premise of the franchise.

The first chapter in The Strangers reboot trilogy offered a mostly by-the-numbers, safe retread that at least instilled curiosity for the subsequent chapters once unshackled from its source material. ...

Something hinky happened on the Ponderosa. It may have been ripped from the headlines of one of Marilyn's brown wrapped periodicals that she keeps secreted in her safe. If true, another legend falls from grace. BONANZA, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, 1959-1973 Marilyn is sure Ben Cartwright, the Ponderosa Patriarch, was a serial wife killer. It explains, Marilyn says with a sly smile, from whence came the funding to create the Ponderosa and why Ben has three distinctly unique sons, each from a different mother.

The Strangers: Chapter 2, the middle entry in a horror trilogy from Renny Harlin, has been given a digital release