Most of today's horror movies feel like they're trying to one-up each other, either with clever displays of violence and gore or with wacked-out plot gimmicks. So it's pretty refreshing to see Hollywood make an old-fashioned domestic thriller. Like last year's Vacancy, The Strangers places two mid-level stars (in this case Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman) in a confined space to do battle with mostly faceless baddies, although The Strangers carries the added charge of taking place in the protagonists' home. As dicey a proposition as summer-release horror films can be, I'm actually curious about this one — the trailer suggests a classically-styled thriller, which is okay by me. Two quibbles: (1) I can't remember the last time a big-budget thriller featured an actual record player and didn't eventually have an LP skipping for spooky effect, and (2) didn't the trailer's final exchange come from an old Richard Pryor standup routine?