Renny Harlin’s The Strangers: Chapter 2 Drops on Digital: Watch at Home Now

Lock your doors again: The Strangers: Chapter 2, the chilling midpoint of Renny Harlin’s horror trilogy, is now on digital.
Renny Harlin’s second chapter in his Strangers trilogy just skipped the rest of its theatrical victory lap and slid onto digital. If you were waiting for an at-home watch, the timing finally makes sense.
Where to watch and how much
The Strangers: Chapter 2 is now available on Prime Video. It’s one of those oddly precise price drops: $22.74 to buy or $17.74 to rent.
How we got here (and why the rollout felt messy)
Harlin shot all three Strangers movies at once. At one point, Lionsgate floated the idea of putting out the entire trilogy in 2024, but that never materialized. Chapter 1 hit theaters in May 2024 and did solid business worldwide. Chapter 2, meanwhile, didn’t arrive until September 2025 and struggled, pulling about $15 million globally compared to Chapter 1’s $47 million. After that soft run, Lionsgate moved it to digital.
What these movies are actually doing
Chapter 1 sticks close to the classic setup: Madelaine Petsch’s character is driving cross-country with her long-term boyfriend (Froy Gutierrez) to start over in the Pacific Northwest. The car dies in Venus, Oregon, they grab a secluded Airbnb, and three masks show up right on schedule. The sequels are designed to widen the scope after that first-night nightmare and dig into the people behind the masks and the fallout for the victims.
"Chapter 1 is close to the original; Chapters 2 and 3 dig into what happens to the victims and who these people are, where they come from and why."
Cast
- Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale)
- Froy Gutierrez (Cruel Summer)
- Rachel Shenton (All Creatures Great and Small)
- Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy)
- Ema Horvath (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power)
The behind-the-scenes wrinkle that actually mattered
They banged out principal photography for the entire trilogy in 52 days, which is fast even by horror standards. After Chapter 1 performed, Harlin and company went back for more: 8 days of additional photography on Chapter 2 and 15 days on Chapter 3. He’s said they actively folded in viewer feedback while making those tweaks, which you do not hear every day on a pre-shot trilogy.
So, what about Chapter 3?
Harlin expects Lionsgate to roll it out early next year. Whether that’s another theatrical run or a straight-to-digital situation is the real question after Chapter 2’s numbers. For now, if you skipped the second chapter in theaters, it’s waiting for you at home.