The Strangers cost $9 million dollars to make and grossed around $82 million worldwide. The disc is not region coded and is released on the Universal label.
If you examine some scenes very closely with the brightness turned up you will notice in some darker lit scenes a few compression issues. As an example the first scene on the moving train when Angelina Jolie is training James McAvoy
All medium to long distance camera shots on the DVD edition were blurry and lacked detail, the Blu Ray edition restores all this lost detail. In my opinion even with a new state of the art transfer using the best film elements this will not look significantly better than it does here.
The DVD suffers from a bit too much noise and edge enhancement but equally the Blu Ray suffers from too much DNR and automated scratch removal.
This film contains a lot of computer graphic effect shots and i thought the image quality for this type of film was excellent. I saw no compression issues or other problems with the transfer.
I found the film rivetting and Cruise’s performance was excellent. The supporting cast also did a fine job and Bryan Singers direction was good.
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