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

Following the death of mom, Rose (Miranda Cosgrove) and her father (Donal Logue) move from sunny California to snowy Chicago. Dad is married to his work. Rose takes psychotic meds and has trouble with the house with a history. She has dreams, hears noises, sees stuff move, has issue with the neighbors, stuck doors, and a doll's head that likes the view in different rooms of the house. The film builds slow, in fact a bit too slow as I grew bored over stuff moving. When we figure out the mystery, which wasn't too hard to do, we realize the film is one of an overcrowded genre which gave us better productions. This was done perhaps for the kids who grew up with Miranda and never saw those other films. Not a bad film, but that will bring deja vu to seasoned viewers. Guide: No F-bombs, sex, or nudity.

I Carly star Miranda Cosgrove stars as Rose Halshford, a college student whose life is upended when her mother commits suicide and her workaholic father Jerry Halshford played by Donal Logue (Quinn from Blade/ Harvey in Gotham) decides to move them across the country to a fixer upper house and Rose begins to experience strange things in the house which has a dark secret of its own. Miranda did an amazing job starring in this movie. I'm glad they had her play a college student because she looks too old to play a high school student again. She looked like she could be a college student. The cute Austin Butler played Noah Henry, the guy who is working on fixing up the home and has a thing for Rose. Her neighbor the somewhat obnoxious Leila Markby played by Jessica Grant whose upset because her parents are getting a divorce and Tom Sizemore's quiet performance as Leila's dad Howard Markby. It's a pretty good thriller and reminded me of movies like the 2012 The Pact and 2016 The Boy. Rose's dad is an architect who works alot and leaves Rose alone alot in a creepy house. Due to being traumatized by her mother's death and being forced to take a leave of absence from Stanford, prior to the events of this movie, Jerry had Rose in therapy and on medication afraid she would share the same fate as his wife and suffer from schizophrenia. So when Rose tells them of seeing things, her nightmares, or objects disappearing and reappearing, it's hard for him to believe her. With this movie, the characters and suspects are shown and while the movie plays on, the viewer begins to pick who's the possible guilty party. Are these figments in Rose's head? Is she really nuts and imagining things? Is it the cute guy constantly popping up? Is he real? Is it the neighbor next door who had a connection to the house's dark secret? This movie leads you in one direction and shocks you by going a different direction. I wasn't surprised due to being desensitized by a stranger than fiction real world. But I still enjoyed the film. I don't know exactly why but one of my favorite scenes in the movie was when the younger cast members are in the living room talking about the house's dark past and when the conversation could have went one way, the conversation was led back to a mature conversation which focused on the plot at hand. I also liked how Noah and Rose's relationship was played out. Was he a figment of her imagination or was he too good to be true? It wasn't rushed and very tasteful and organic. The movie was very realistic like it could happened in real life which it probably has and this is how rational human beings would react and handle this type of predicament. I enjoyed it and would watch it again. I liked how the actors played these characters in a natural way and no one tried to out act the other. It was a really good film with a good script, a great cast, and was well directed. I really liked it.

This is by FAR the weirdest episode of iCarly. Nickelodeon needs to step up their game.

I think I meant to watch Intruders (2015) and instead somehow ended up with this crud: The Intruders (2015). This isn't gonna be a long review because the less time we all waste here the better. It was absolutely fecking painful to watch, they have taken a few ideas used successfully in other films and done bugger all with them. Oh man, you know what, I can't even be bothered critiquing this POS, it was depressingly bad and just trying to think about it now that it is over is making seriously want to die. I need a drink. Just skip it, no redeeming features whatsoever.

It kinda saddened me that this movie went straight to DVD and digital download and didn't get a theater release but these things happen. So on the night of it's release, I started my download from iTunes right at midnight when it was available. I guess the movie description pretty much sums up the movie so I wont go deeply into it. What I do want to say is our beautiful beyond belief protagonist Rose is not the usual weak helpless woman like in other similar films in the genre. In other similar films, no one ever believes the victim, here her father doesn't but there's a good reason for it, here Rose has new friends that do believe her. The viewer is made to believe that Rose may or may not have mental problems. Rose has gone through some traumatic mental issues due to her mother's death. Thus the move to a new city and new house, to get a fresh start. Right away through Rose's exploration of the house you get the feeling of how she dislikes her new home and being that this all takes place in the dead of winter, there is a sort of claustrophobic feel since Rose has nowhere to run to and can't escape the possible antagonist in their new home that is messing with her, be it the weird father neighbor next door, the handyman, maybe it's supernatural, or maybe Rose has just gone insane. This movie does have a nice creep factor going on throughout. To be honest, it feels like writer Jason Juravic used the idea for this movie from the 1974 TV movie "Bad Ronald". As for the acting, the entire cast did a fine job. Miranda Cosgrove surprised me though. She did a very fine job being that this was her first time doing mystery/suspense. Jason Juravic did drop the ball a bit in writing. The antagonist was weak in story and background. It's as if Juravic rushed the story or had problems putting it together to make a cohesive and comprehensible story. It was messy and it showed towards the end. Director Adam Massey can share in the blame too. It's safe to say that Adam Massey is no Alfred Hitchcock. This seems to be his second film as director, first in the mystery/suspense genre. I don't really know him or his work, the only other thing he has done is television director work on those 'Man vs.' shows. Maybe another director that knows the genre could have done a better job but what's done is done. Still, I loved this movie. It was fun. The target audience are definitely tweens, early teens and any Miranda Cosgrove fan. The old, jaded by every movie on earth crowd won't like this, hell, they don't like anything. Being that I am a hardcore Miranda Cosgrove fan, I gave this a 10 but if it was any other actress, this movie would get a 7 from me. One last thing, the title 'The Intruders' relates to Rose and her father being the 'Intruders' in the house.

In the intro a girl is kept in some cellar. Some guy with a camera arrives. She screams. A father and his daughter move into a house in a different town. He's an architect and always busy with work. The wife had mental issues and committed suicide at some point. The girl, Rose, is obnoxious, a college student taking a semester off and also has mental issues since her mother's death but refuses to take her pills, in fact she throws them away. As soon as she gets there the complains. But also early on she starts hearing loud noises of all kinds. And we too have to put up with exceedingly loud sound effects, noises, and music as if any second someone is going to just show up and skin Rose alive. And this goes on for the entire movie. Rose tries to befriend a girl across the street who also argues with her father and who also doesn't have a mother. This girl asks Rose how she can live in that house given what happened there. That freaks her out and she starts researching. The previous owner was a "pillar" of the community who helped and let people in need live in the house. One of those was the dad across the street. And also a girl who vanished. The dad across the street was suspected of the disappearance but eventually cleared. But this woman also had a son. Rose finds scratches in the cellar in her house with the missing girl's name. She magically gets herself locked into rooms, stuff disappears, of course heads of dolls appear and vanish, etc. Rose also becomes friends with some construction worker who takes her to a party but when he also fails to see any evidence of what she claims to hear she tells him to get lost. Finally, 15 minutes before the movie is over we learn what is going on. Rose finds a secret room with a secret attic and another secret inside. It's an unsatisfying explanation, but at least it's something after 1:15 hours of nothing. The Intruders has little going for it. Stories about people with mental issues simply don't work. Here we're lead around nose for a while. The main characters aren't sympathetic nor interesting. Nothing really advances the story in any meaningful way until the end. The sound effects instead of making things scary are just annoying. But it has fallen to the sound effects to make up for the lack of story and keep the audience from falling asleep.