The Strangers writer-director Brian Bertino struggles to get scares out of this poorly paced and increasingly incoherent disappointment The Strangers writer-director Brian Bertino struggles to get scares out of this poorly paced and increasingly incoherent disappointment E very now and then, Hollywood comes across a hit that can’t be neatly replicated, a one-off success story that should be praised, noted and promptly left well alone. The Strangers wasn’t supposed to do all that much back in