Intruders (2011)

Pretty Good

People are voting emotionally.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Intruders wants to be Pan Labyrinth for Young Adults and it fails.It has two parallel stories of children seeing a faceless stranger at night called Hollow Face. In Sain, a young mother wants to protect her son from Hollow Face and even consults a priest.In Britain, a young girl who tells vivid spooky tales is attacked at night by Hollow Face until her father comes to the rescue.The question is how can the father see the faceless person in a hoodie? There is a link between the two disparate stories but the film is not really scary or gory and it was actually rather boring.

I do not know if I am the right person to write a review for this movie. Only because I get scared a little easier than the next person. But for this film, It kept me on the edge of my seat, It had my attention the whole time. Even made me jump a few times. You will not regret it once watching this movie. Kind of made me scared to go right to sleep after seeing it, because I thought something was hiding in the dark corners. Very interesting, but causes your mind to go nuts. Would watch this film again if I had the right person to watch it with. My cat can not save me with films like this. HA HA. But Hope this review makes you want to watch it. I promise you will love it!

This film is a good scary thriller. Clive Owen is the main character and gives a convincing performance of a dad who is trying to catch "hollow face" the man who appears in his daughters bedroom at night. The film also flips back to a similar story in Spain, where hollow face comes to a little boys room at night. There aren't lots of effects or gore in this film. It's just a simple story of a creepy man who visits children at night. The two halves of the story come together nicely, as hollow face presence seems to intensify - with the police and social work involved the pressure is on the dad to prove hollow face does exist.. I would recommend this movie and it was a good scary watch.

Two children, one in Spain, the other in England, are experiencing terrifying visits by the same demon who wants to possess them. The only viable link is that both children are writing a story...A joint Spanish/English language production, Intruders is the sort of frustrating picture that has big and bold ideas on the page, but sadly on the screen in unfolds laboriously as it bites off more than it can chew. It came as no surprise to myself to find that upon opening internet sites frequented by horror fans, Intruders has greatly disappointed them. It's rarely frightening, sags desperately in the middle section, the pay off is weak, and ultimately it only skirts the boundaries of being a "horror" film.So, the lack of shocks and suspense in bona fide horror terms needs to be tempered with genre expectation levels, this is more a family drama with fantastical horror elements lurking around the edges of the frame. This of course doesn't help anyone, like myself, who has bought into plot synopsis and the marketing strategy that accompanied the picture, but if able to see past the faceless demon that appears occasionally and promises something else? There's a decent and honest adult film pulsing away here.Clive Owen plays the troubled father of the piece and he once again, as he did in Trust, shows that given this type of material he can deliver a performance of emotional substance. He's backed up by a very strong turn from young Ella Purnell as his daughter, and with the tech credits high - most notably Roque Baños' superb musical score - there is much to enjoy here. But as thoughtful as it is, and as solid as the film makers credentials are, its reputation is unlikely to be enhanced anytime soon. 6.5/10