Q: Can anyone give me a link? All I can find is an article about 'The Strangers' film. Does anybody know what the case was called? Kirsten McKay and James Hoyt* Sorry. Why does Strangers say based on a true story then? That's completely stupid.
A: The event is fictional, but inspired by an incident in which strangers came to the door of the home of Bryan Bertino, the writer/directer of the movie, when he was a child. The information is in the Wikipedia article on the movie, sourced by the production notes of the movie at http://b985.com/movies/notes/strangers/note/?printer=1