The Intruders

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Lame, routine horror about intruders that appear to have no faces. Not too scary to say the least. seek out many, many better examples, if you are that way inclined.

This movie is about a young college girl who lost her mentally ill mother. The main character Rose and her father move to a new place and they have a troubled relationship as Rose resents her father for getting more work to do when her mother got really sick. The house they moved to has a history, a girl who lived there, called Rachel, went missing and was never found. There are a lot of problems with this movie and I'm not going to comment on the cliches because I honestly don't mind cliches as long as they are well done, which is not the case. The movie seems to try to set the idea that Rose might have the same illness as her mother, but... It's so not convincing that a lot of the father/daughter dialogue feels dumb. Which brings us to another problem: the dialogue as a whole. There is so much exposition going on it's annoying especially since the "mistery" of the movie is so obvious since so early in the movie. I mean they did a kind of nice job in the very beginning when Rose is suspicious of Lila's father, but then they just made it all go away when Rose accused the guy in the middle of the street and for some weird reason instead of being really mad at a girl - who you just talked once - for doing that to your father, Lila explains everything to Rose, even very personal things and continues to be good friends with her. It's just so unrealistic and that pushed me right out of the movie. And it's sad to watch it after that because you can see that they are trying to make you confused about who is the person that killed Rachel when you already know ages ago. And I am a person who is AWFUL at figure this things out in movies. Anyway, I think it could have been a nice cliche horror movie, but its incredible predictability killed it.

This will probably be a fairly short review when compared to some others of mine. There really isn't much to say about this one unfortunately other than that this is a very formulaic by the numbers been-done-a-thousand-times thriller. All terribly predictable. We start off in typical fashion of late seeing some poor soul being tied up and murdered in a basement. We then see father and daughter (Logue & Cosgrove) moving into said house (did I say it was predictable already?) after a family tragedy. Dad is trying his best to juggle work, daughter and the house renovation while Rose (Cosgrove) is suffering from issues regarding the tragedy. Naturally this also causes tension between father and daughter. Cue hunky local tradesman Noah (Butler) to help her out of her blues, who has been employed to help with the renovations to the mystery house. But strange things are afoot with the creepy neighbour opposite them. He was a suspect in a missing girl case and Rose notices that things may not be what they seem with his daughter. Then things start moving around the house without explanation, further sending Roses mental state spiraling. Is it all in her head or is there something more sinister going on? Do we even care anyway? Production values are reasonable for this kind of rubbish but the sound editing is truly atrocious. This really is college study stuff and is not acceptable in this day and age with any kind of reasonable budget. Acting is reasonable if not stellar while the script is very weak. Overall you've seen it all before, and seen it done much better. Predictable lazy rubbish. One to miss and forget. The Sage's Rating: 4/10