It sounds like The Strangers: Chapter 3 might be here sooner than we expected!
Director Renny Harlin, who helmed both The Strangers: Chapter 1 and the newly released The Strangers: Chapter 2, recently revealed that the third entry in his trilogy will likely arrive in 2026.
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Chatting with The Direct at San Diego Comic Con a few months ago, the filmmaker confirmed that Chapter 3 won’t come out this year, which makes sense since there are only a few months left.
“It won’t be this year. We are finishing it up right now, so it’ll be done by the time Chapter 2 comes out. Chapter 3 will be completely finished, but there’s no time before Christmas and everything. But I would say that early next year is what it’s looking like,” Renny told the outlet.
As for what fans can expect from the third movie, the director says the story “goes into a very, very dark place.”
“It’s an incredible privilege for a director to to be able to tell this kind of a full story. Usually sequels are done a few years apart, and it’s just like taking those same characters but putting them in completely a different situation,” the filmmaker said.
“And the incredible opportunity here is to explore our main character for four and a half hours and see her mental situation completely changed from being a vulnerable girl in the first movie who was horrified by the act of home invasion, and then what she turns into by the end of movie three. And I will try to make it as raw and realistic as possible, instead of, you know, like a movie type of a character.”
He concluded, “So these movies will gradually get more physical and mentally more disturbing as we go into Chapter 3.”
Renny‘s comments echo what star Madelaine Petsch recently said, when she teased that Chapter 3 will go places she “never thought a horror movie could go.”
The Strangers: Chapter 2 is now playing in theaters.
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