The Strangers: Chapter 2
Lionsgate | Release Date: September 26, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
28
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
65
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerSep 26, 2025
For roughly the length of a TV episode, it floats above its ugly franchise architecture in a dreamlike state of divine ridiculousness. Read full review
60
LooperAlistair RyderSep 22, 2025
While it doesn't offer anything you haven't seen in a slasher movie before, the pivot to survival thriller mode feels like a breath of fresh air after a tiresome prior installment with no unique ideas, and no suggestion of any impending change to the worn out formula. Read full review
50
Little White LiesBillie WalkerSep 25, 2025
In order to fill the measly 96-minute run time, there are many flashbacks, both from Maya’s perspective and from the killers as children, arguably making them ​‘strangers’ no longer. These flashbacks repeatedly hamper the film, knocking the thrill out of its pace and entertainment. Read full review
40
EmpireJamie GrahamSep 23, 2025
At once explaining too much and not enough, this middle segment of the trilogy fails to amp up the stranger danger. Perhaps the scariest thing is the end title: To be continued… Read full review
40
SlashfilmRafael MotamayorSep 22, 2025
It's an improvement simply because this trilogy started off pretty badly, but nevertheless an uninspiring survival horror with repetitive set pieces, baffling character choices, and a mythology that feels like it's erasing the very reason his franchise exists in the first place. Read full review
31
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiSep 29, 2025
The Strangers: Chapter 2' is an improvement on 'The Strangers: Chapter 1.' Then again, a moderate case of food poisoning is an improvement on a severe one. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisSep 30, 2025
With little furtherance of the plot beyond confusing flashbacks to a creepy childhood triad, “Chapter 2” is hackneyed and silly, relying heavily on Petsch’s sneakily resilient scream queen. Read full review
30
IGNCarlos MoralesSep 30, 2025
The Strangers – Chapter 2 makes a couple of minor improvements on the first film, but it’s ultimately just as slapdash as its predecessor. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineMark HansonSep 23, 2025
Mostly notable for its distracting resemblance to Rick Rosenthal’s Halloween II, Chapter 2 suggests for a while a needlessly extended epilogue to the first film. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 22, 2025
It turns out the creators of this cash grab are aggressively unwilling to go much of anywhere at all. Read full review
20
ColliderRoss BonaimeSep 26, 2025
The Strangers: Chapter 2 is a true disaster, one of the worst horror films of the year, and it’s a damn shame this is what this franchise has come to. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerSep 25, 2025
The story is both simplistic and telegraphed, which is handy because some startlingly inept filmmaking makes the action almost impossible to follow. There are multiple sequences that make no sense to the eye or brain, and basic design and costume decisions that make it nearly impossible to tell characters apart from each other. The only true horror here is that there’s another couple of hours of this still to come. Read full review
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