When will people learn not to stay in a cabin in the woods?

The answer to that, if horror movies teach us anything, is never. In Lionsgate’s reboot/remake of the 2008 film The Strangers, a couple (Riverdale‘s Madelaine Petsch and Teen Wolf‘s Froy Guitierrez) find themselves in an eerie small town, and though they only mean to stop for a meal, their car breaks down, leaving them no choice but to stay in, you guessed it, a cabin in the woods for the night.

The Strangers Chapter 1 is the first in a trilogy, with Chapters 2 and 3 due later this year, with Renny Harlin directing and Madelaine Petsch starring in all of them. Chapter 1 could also be considered a prequel, giving the origin story of the three killers who first menaced Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman in the 2008 original, written and directed by Bryan Bertino.

That movie was followed by a sequel, The Strangers: Prey at Night, released in 2018 and directed by Johannes Roberts (Bertino wrote the screenplay.)

In the trailer for Chapter 1, the couple are seen settling in to their last-minute Air BnB, when a child knocks at their door, asking for a woman named Tamara. The two send the child away, but then Petsch’s character is later shown showering while a masked killer watches her. Later two more masked killers join him and capture the couple, telling Petsch’s character they picked them “because you’re here” – just like in the original film.

Harlin is directing from a script by Bryan Bertino, Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland. Cohen and Freedland are writing the scripts for Chapters 2 and 3 with Amber Loutfi.

Last year, Harlin told ComicBook.com that he actually considers the upcoming movies to be “the first three movies of the Strangers Universe.”

If people thought that the original movie ended [SPOILER ALERT] in a titillating way because Liv Tyler sort of gasps in the end of that. And you question, like, ‘Did she live, what happened?’ ” Harlin said in the interview. “If you thought that was thought-provoking, I think that when the third movie ends, you are like, ‘Oh my God, what’s, what’s gonna happen now?”

The Strangers: Chapter 1 knocks on the door of a theater near you on May 17th.