{"id":357977,"date":"2026-01-08T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357977\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:15:07","slug":"madelaine-petsch-up-against-masked-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357977\/","title":{"rendered":"Madelaine Petsch Up Against Masked Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/madelaine-petsch\/\" id=\"auto-tag_madelaine-petsch_1\" data-tag=\"madelaine-petsch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madelaine Petsch<\/a> as final girl Maya brings her brutal cat-and-mouse game with masked pursuers to a final showdown in the trailer for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-strangers-chapter-3\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-strangers-chapter-3_1\" data-tag=\"the-strangers-chapter-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Strangers: Chapter 3<\/a>, which dropped on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cAfter all these years, you\u2019re the only one that survived. Why?\u201d Gabriel Basso as Gregory asks Maya at one point in the teaser for the final film in director\u2019s Renny Harlin\u2019s The Strangers slasher horror trilogy, led by Petsch. \u201cDoes there have to be a why?\u201d a rifle-toting Maya replies as she looks to turn the tables on the masked psychopaths in, as a synopsis from the producers states, \u201ca brutal, full-circle reckoning of survival and revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe teaser for The Strangers: Chapter 3, besides featuring axe- and knife-wielding and other atrocities against local townspeople dying off, also promises to reveal the identities of the Man in the Mask, Dollface and Pin-Up Girl as they pursue their final victim.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cEverything I\u2019ve ever cared about is gone,\u201d Maya says at another point in the trailer as her patience gives way to her inner killer instinct being unleashed as she even dons a Pin Up Girl mask. The Strangers \u2013 Chapter 3, which also stars Ema Horvath, is directed by Harlin from a script written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, and is based on characters created by Bryan Bertino.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCourtney Solomon, Mark Canton, Gary Raskin, Alastair Burlingham and Charlie Dombek share the producer credits. The stand-alone trilogy from Harlin rebooted the franchise that began with 2008\u2019s The Strangers, starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tChapter One stayed true to Bryan Bertino\u2019s horror classic,\u00a0The Strangers, only reimagining a scenario where an analogue of Liv Tyler\u2019s character, Petsch\u2019s Maya, survives the central home invasion to set up\u00a0Chapter Two\u00a0and\u00a0Three\u00a0as she plays the main protagonist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madelaine Petsch as final girl Maya brings her brutal cat-and-mouse game with masked pursuers to a final showdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,28176,14112,2839,74019,7021,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-357977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-lionsgate","10":"tag-madelaine-petsch","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-the-strangers-chapter-3","13":"tag-trailers","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}