Hell Is Where the Home Is

With tons of terrible horror flicks droppping every week, this one was actually a nice surprise. Not original, but well made. Nice cinematography and lighting, good acting, and some cool practical gore. If like me, you're a horror fan, always on the look out for the next film you can actually sit through and enjoy - definately check this one out. A smaller scale "The Strangers:Prey at Night".

TRESPASSERS is yet another home invasion thriller set over a single night in which a pair of obnoxious partying couples are busy boozing and having sex and arguing amongst themselves before they're ambushed and attacked by masked invaders. It's a cheap and sleazy piece of filmmaking, enlivened only by a brief turn from '90s starlet Fairuza Balk (remember her from THE CRAFT?) who's the only fun actor in this. The bad guys take ages to show up, and then the ending is just an endless array of ridiculous twists, violent death and general unpleasantness. It's not a good film.

A mise-mash thriller, with a lot of typical subject matter thrown in, the Director has an eye for detail and environment, but plot twist and turns are predictable, the story itself was not bad,it could have had a little more terror and tension based on the title of the film, the actor who played the abusive butt-hole doper boyfriend was entertaining ,the sinister neighbor who knocks on the door was a creepy and briefly engaging, the Ennio Morricone type music at beginning and end of film was cool, IFC midnight films continue to get a little better with each thriller they release, a good late night treat.

Gross, just an awful film. The plot makes no, zero, nada sense. If you like gore flicks that make no sense, knock yourself out.

The writing is atrocious, I cannot believe that anybody would ever act like this. They have an easy way out, the only prints on the gun are the jackass who caused the trouble in the first place's prints yet they still try and hide the fact that he got stabbed in self defense? Seriously? I can understand stretching your imagination for the sake of a film but this is just a slap to the face of everyone that watches this abomination. I have never written a review on IMDb like this but Trespassers has got to have one of the worst premises that I have ever had to endure. Yes, endure. This movie was straight up painful. During a tense moment in the film where you're unsure if the guy with the gun is going to just kill you all because he's incredibly unstable you admit to cheating on him? Really? REALLY? I'm so angry that the makers of this garbage would believe that we, the viewers, would believe that any human being could be this incompetent. This stupid. This inept. Don't do it, don't watch this trash. The writing is so horrendous that I rank this film right up there with Manos Hands of Fate in the bad movie department. When the home invaders finally show up it's too late, the filmmakers have already questioned the viewers intelligence to the point of no return. Please, save yourself from this head scratchingly awful film and find something, anything else to watch.

This is a home break-in film if you couldn't tell from the title. Two couples with secrets and cocaine rent an isolated house in Mojave. Who takes Polaroids? The break-in occurs at about an hour into the film with some minor David Hess type action. It was nice to see Fairuza Balk, who was the highlight of the film. Guide: F-word, sex, brief near-nudity. Note to self: Don't try to deal with a tough situation armed with a gun and on cocaine.

Without adding any spoilers, the movie gets more intense and more twists. When it ramps up, its non-stop till the end. I felt the terror. One of my worst fears is to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The lead was really great. I felt her sadnesses, her anger and her fear. Lots to go through in one night of a "relaxing getaway."

Nothing is in this film makes any sense. The story is incomprehensible and violence is there just for the sake of violence. How anybody can rate this film over 1 is a mistery to me. One could actually feel ashamed watching it until the very end in some vague hope that somehow a coherent story would develop. It certainly was a waste of time.

Trespassers is a movie that wanted to be more I think, one that thought it could expand and grow into something bigger later on, an edge of the seat thriller/horror with some good twists and kills. Sadly it failed on pretty much every level, being nothing more than a movie that takes forever to start and then delivers some annoying performances and questionable writing really. It is definitely not the worst out there, but if you're into such movies perhaps try something like Revenge (2017) because just like this one it is over the top but manages to provide some better scenes and closure. Even Mandy has more to offer compared to Trespassers, a movie that oddly enough is categorized as horror as well, perhaps the home invasion theme managed to bring this up. All in all, I don't think people will have fun with this one sadly, so I will not recommend it, not even for a boring late night. Look elsewhere, find something different. Cheers!

After the opening scene of 'Trespassers', which is far and away the weakest segment of the film, I thought to myself oh no this is going to be a very long 90 minutes. It was just a very sloppy and lazy way to start a movie. No creativity was used, no suspense was built, they simply wanted to show that these were people not to be messed with and that was that. Incredibly though, from that point onwards the film gets consistently better until it reached the point by the end where I considered it a very good low-budget thriller. It's quite a bizarre movie in the sense that there are almost two movies worth of storylines being combined into one. It is sold as a home-invasion movie, and yet that really is almost like a tacked on afterthought near the end. Most of the film is the explosive drama going on between the four lead characters in the house. I can't remember seeing a film like this before actually, where the film spends so long on set-up (if you could call it that) and so little time on the actual promised storyline. The reason it gets away with it is because both elements are done very well. This may be the first time I've seen Fairuza Balk in something since 'The Waterboy'. I actually really enjoyed her cameo though. I would suggest she was the strongest actor in the cast and she fit her role perfectly. The rest of the cast were mixed. There was clearly some weaker performances amongst the bunch, but they all try hard and no one phones in their role at all. You certainly couldn't say anyone gave a dull performance. There were a few weak points in the movie. The masks the invaders used could have been done better. A lot of films are getting very creative these days with killer masks and they can actually add a lot to your film. These ones were cheap and unoriginal. Also I had trouble understanding what the bad guys actually wanted. Maybe I just missed a line but it was very unclear to me their motives. Finally, when you do some thinking about it and put some logic together this would have to be the shortest night in the history of nights. Not a big deal but worth noting. The colours in this film were excellent as well. They set the mood perfectly for some good old-fashioned horror/suspense. Also the film gets brutally violent in the final act so be prepared for that. I had a really good time with 'Trespassers' and would highly recommend it to people. Push through the opening scene and know that it gets better the longer the movie goes.