Premise: The Strangers is a 2008 American horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino and starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman . The film follows a young couple who are terrorized by three masked assailants over the course of an evening at a remote summer home . Made on a budget of $ 9 million , the film was shot on location in rural South Carolina in the fall of 2006 . Contemporary film scholars have interpreted the film as a criticism of the perceived safety of pastoral life , as well as an exploration of stranger-on-stranger violence .
Hypothesis: The Strangers is a film.
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