Lionsgate has released the official trailer for The Strangers: Chapter 3, which concludes the reboot trilogy. Watch the trailer for the horror 3quel above, then read on for more details.
The trailer shows Maya’s awkward reversal of position.
Maya, played by Madeline Petsch, looks suitably destroyed here – exhausted and bloody after two hunting movies, running on the fuel she has left. The big talking point is that she is seen wearing a pin-up girl mask in the trailer, hinting that the story is less about “the final girl’s victory” and more about “what happens when survival becomes fixated on something else.”
Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2) once again directs from a script by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Friedland, and the cast also includes Gabriel Basso, Emma Horvath, Pablo Sandstrom, and Richard Brake.
Chapter 3 was tweaked after Chapter 1
This trilogy has an unusual structure. All three films were shot in 52 consecutive days, and the team had an additional 28 days of additional filming across the second and third chapters to fine-tune following the first film’s response. Chapter 3 took three weeks of reshoots.
In September 2025, Harlin told The Hollywood Reporter that some audience members felt Chapter 1 was too close to the 2008 original film. “We listened to the audience. There were a lot of hardcore fans who were unhappy with the first movie. One of the reasons for that is you can’t remake a classic without people feeling like it was done wrong… So we knew it was going to be tough, but we listened and read the commentary.”
Harlin promises ‘shocking’ ending
Harlin isn’t selling Chapter 3 as being “bigger”, he’s selling it as being different. He frames Endgame as a psychological pivot for both protagonists and antagonists, stating that it is built around research and realism rather than pure slasher logic.
“I would say that in the third film, the whole psychological development of these characters, the protagonist and the antagonist, is grounded in reality, and I really believe that, but it’s really, really unexpected,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
“The audience will be in for a big surprise and it will be very interesting to see how they relate to it. Like I said, I think this movie is completely rooted in well-researched psychological reality, but it’s pretty shocking.”
The Strangers: Chapter 3 will be released in U.S. theaters on February 6, 2026.
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