Anyone who saw the movie or preview

The masks the intruders are wearing did they look similar to the ones used in the segment with the girl who woke up with no memory with her hands duct taped together

who remembered parts of her ordeal every time she would suffer a seizure saying "i didn't let them in".

Stephanie i believe her name was

Anyone who saw the movie or preview

The masks the intruders are wearing did they look similar to the ones used in the segment with the girl who woke up with no memory with her hands duct taped together

who remembered parts of her ordeal every time she would suffer a seizure saying "i didn't let them in".

Stephanie i believe her name was

Her name is Sarah Powell. Hope that helps :)

Knew it started with an S LOL

I'm going to see the movie soon. I've downloaded the excellent trailer on my computer. There's an entry on the film in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_strangers

For all it's worth, someone has edited this. Last month, the wiki entry mentionned that this movie was based on the home invasion/murder cases of Jeffrey McDonald and Charles Manson.

I was surprised to see that they've removed the reference to Jeffrey McDonald, since.

I saw this movie last Friday and it started out pretty decent and then just got irritating. It says based on true events, but that is a lie. As for the masks looking similar to the ones in the Sarah Powell case, that is incorrect. They had a nylon stocking mask and a Freddie Kreuger mask. This is what the masks looked like that were used in the movie:

http://media.metronews.ca/images/d7/c3/858e64e34f8398c2fb9b9e8b6348.jpeg

If it is based on the Sarah Powell version of events it must be a lie.:lol:

[QUOTE=synthisislab] It says based on true events, but that is a lie. QUOTE]

I think that The Strangers might possibly be based off of a story I saw on Dateline, about 5 friends (3 guys and 2 girls) who were sleeping in an apartment, and they woke up to find 2 men in their apartment, and the men tied everyone up, and forced the guys to do you-know-what to the girls while they watched, took 2 of the victims to an ATM and forced them to withdraw all their money, and then they took all 5 of them to a field and shot them in the back of the head, and one of the girls lived because the bullet bounced off a hair clip she was wearing. That is the one clue about this case that has always amazed me. I can't for the life of me remember these people's names, but I believe it happened in Kansas in the 2000's.

I think that The Strangers might possibly be based off of a story I saw on Dateline, about 5 friends (3 guys and 2 girls) who were sleeping in an apartment, and they woke up to find 2 men in their apartment, and the men tied everyone up, and forced the guys to do you-know-what to the girls while they watched, took 2 of the victims to an ATM and forced them to withdraw all their money, and then they took all 5 of them to a field and shot them in the back of the head, and one of the girls lived because the bullet bounced off a hair clip she was wearing. That is the one clue about this case that has always amazed me. I can't for the life of me remember these people's names, but I believe it happened in Kansas in the 2000's.

Dude, that's one of the sickest thing I've ever heard.
Yikes. I can't imagine going through that ordeal and surviving.
Have the perps been caught and sentenced?

The movie is inspired by the 1981 Keddie Murders. You can read about the case here: www.cabin28.com

I think that The Strangers might possibly be based off of a story I saw on Dateline, about 5 friends (3 guys and 2 girls) who were sleeping in an apartment, and they woke up to find 2 men in their apartment, and the men tied everyone up, and forced the guys to do you-know-what to the girls while they watched, took 2 of the victims to an ATM and forced them to withdraw all their money, and then they took all 5 of them to a field and shot them in the back of the head, and one of the girls lived because the bullet bounced off a hair clip she was wearing. That is the one clue about this case that has always amazed me. I can't for the life of me remember these people's names, but I believe it happened in Kansas in the 2000's.


http://www.wichita-massacre.com/

Reginald & Jonathan Carr.

supersally, they were originally given the death penalty. Then the Kansas Supreme Court decided that was unconstitutional. One article said that was still in appeals.

That is an incredibly terrible crime. I think that life in prison is worse than the death penalty especially for people as young as the Carr brothers. However I dont think taxpayers should have to pay to keep the worthless scumbags alive.

I think that The Strangers might possibly be based off of a story I saw on Dateline, about 5 friends (3 guys and 2 girls) who were sleeping in an apartment, and they woke up to find 2 men in their apartment, and the men tied everyone up, and forced the guys to do you-know-what to the girls while they watched, took 2 of the victims to an ATM and forced them to withdraw all their money, and then they took all 5 of them to a field and shot them in the back of the head, and one of the girls lived because the bullet bounced off a hair clip she was wearing. That is the one clue about this case that has always amazed me. I can't for the life of me remember these people's names, but I believe it happened in Kansas in the 2000's.
This film really had nothing to do with that case apart from the home invasion.

The movie is inspired by the 1981 Keddie Murders. You can read about the case here: www.cabin28.com
Now that sounds very similar to the film.

http://www.wichita-massacre.com/

Reginald & Jonathan Carr.

supersally, they were originally given the death penalty. Then the Kansas Supreme Court decided that was unconstitutional. One article said that was still in appeals.

Wow. That has got to be the most brutal and gratuitous murder I've ever read.

Every beat is senseless and heartbreaking. It almost feels like it's from a Hollywood movie.

Unbeleivable.

I saw that movie last night. It was sick.... I didn't sleep well last night after seeing it either.....

http://www.wichita-massacre.com/

Yeah, I remember that case and the accusations that it was suppressed because the victims were white and the perpetrators black. Here's another: http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/newsom.asp Some of these make national news, some don't. The two which amazed me when they received national and international play were the young man from Utah stabbed in the New York subway, and the Central Park jogger attack. I was amazed because I simply assumed such attacks occurred 10 or 20 times a day in New York and wondered why they were considered news.

Does anyone remember a home invasion described in a Sunday magazine supplement years ago? A mother and her four children were attacked--there was a father, but he must not have been home--by a group of teenagers, I think. They were laid out on the floor and all five shot. Only the mother survived. The victims were white and two of the children were hers, the other two were her husband's. Don't remember the race of the perpetrators but I think they were caught.

Here is another which received national attention: http://www.courttv.com/news/2007/0807/komisarjevsy_ctv.html

Article in the Mercury News about the Keddie Murders and the local teacher who has made a documentary about it. I posted the link for the documentary in the thread on the Keddie Murders. Below is the article and the link.

Campbell teachers captivated by the tragic story of 'Cabin 28'
By Chris Vongsarath
Campbell Reporter

What started as a senior project for his students has turned into a personal mission for a former Campbell school district teacher.

In 2002, English teacher Josh Hancock told his Westmont High School seniors to produce a documentary on a subject of their choosing. To ease their protests, he vowed to make one himself.

Hancock, on the advice of a friend, took on the mysterious multiple murders that have haunted the resort town of Keddie, Calif., for more than 25 years. And while Hancock still teaches full time, now at West Valley College, the documentary has consumed more of his life than he ever imagined.

"We're not trying to solve the case or do any police work," Hancock says. "We're trying to get the word out."

The case involves the murders of members of the Sharp family while they were vacationing at Keddie Resort in 1981.

On the morning of April 11, 14-year-old Sheila Sharp stepped into Cabin 28 to a horrific scene. Her mother, Sue, and her brother, Johnny, and his best friend, Dana Wingate, were bound hand and foot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death the night before, all while she slept just steps away at a neighbor's cabin next door.

Her sister, Tina, was also missing. Her remains were later found in Oroville, about 60 miles away from Keddie.

The grisly killings sent Keddie into a downward spiral into which it has never recovered, Hancock said.

"People started locking their doors, moved out of the area and stopped going to restaurants. If you look at the town today, you would have no idea it was once this bustling, affluent community," he added.

The documentary, completed in 2004, has taken him to Oregon, Arizona and Washington state. He initially planned to shoot for six months but ended up at close to three years.

"I had no idea it would come to what it did," Hancock said.

He pushed on because he was felt there was more to the story.

What's interesting, Hancock says, is that other children who survived were in Cabin 28 while the murders took place. Hancock added that one of them, Justin Eason, a friend of the Sharp kids, said while under hypnosis that he witnessed the murders, and the description he gave matched Eason's stepfather, though nothing could be proved.

Adding further intrigue, reports that Cabin 28 was haunted prompted its demolition in 2004.

Hancock says the murders pique a local interest, as Keddie is only a four-hour drive from the Bay Area. Interest has also resurfaced on the Internet with buzz in online chat rooms and forums, and "The Strangers," a Hollywood horror film loosely based on the killings, was recently released.

For whatever reason, Hancock is glad the case is receiving attention once again.

"It's kind of taken a new life, which is great because more people have seen the documentary now than ever before," he said.

He maintains that he is not looking for a profit. In fact, viewers can watch the documentary online for free.

Prospect High School teacher Dianne Sweeney aided Hancock with the documentary and is now working with him to compile a book containing never-before-seen photographs, updated interviews with the victims' families and a look into the making of the documentary.

Inspired by the work in Keddie, Sweeney said she plans to tackle other cases in the local community that have gone unsolved or forgotten.

"There's an interest in a lot of true crime, unsolved crime. These murders happened so close to home. The next goal is to turn our attention to things happening right in our own back yard, so to speak," she said.

"Cabin 28: The Keddie Murders" can be viewed online at www.keddiemurdersfilm.com.