“The Strays” (*1/2 out of four) was a scattershot horror thriller about an upscale woman (Ashley Madekwe) whose well-insulated and privileged life with her husband (Justin Salinger) begins to crumble when two mysterious strangers (Jordan Myrie and Bukky Bakray) show up in her idyllic suburban town and start menacing her and force her to question the fabric of her own reality and sanity. Writer/director Nathaniel Martello-White throws in elements of “Get Out”, “The Stepford Wives”, and just about any other horror movie about the dark-side-of-suburbia but film is lackluster and lifeless. Madekwe’s is solid in the lead but film unfortunately leads her astray.

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