{Movie}: Intruders

Intruders

Directed by: Juan Fresnadillo

Starring: Clive Owen, Ella Purnell, Carice van Houten

Genre: Thriller

Rated: R

Year: 2011

Thoughts: Beware! Warning! This may contain spoilers!

Similarly to Dream House, I expected this film to be more of a horror story than a thriller. However, this film does a good job of creating a confusing and intriguing mystery. The film focuses around two family, an English family and a Hispanic family. The beginning of the film focuses on the Hispanic family, establishing that something is terrorizing the young boy. However, these scenes are all in Spanish, and the viewer is forced to read subtitles. I personally don't like reading subtitles in thriller and horror movies, because I think that it detracts from whatever horrors may be on screen. Also, the beginning of the film didn't interest mee right away, and I ended up playing Tetris on my phone for the first 30 minutes of the film. 

However, after the initial introduction of everything, the film did pick up. The focus changes to the English family, and their daughter Mia. Mia begins seeing a figure, called Hollowface, after she finds a single page describing who he is. It becomes more interesting as we learn that the little boy, Juan, in the Hispanic family is also seeing the same figure. This is important because it is thought that maybe Mia is having some pysch problems, but we know that since the little boy is also seeing the figure, we are going to assume that it is real. Except WHAM the film throws in your face that the little boy is Mia's father, the only other person in the English side of the story who can see Hollowface. While this turn was a little unexpcected, it makes perfect sense.

So while the film held a very interesting "who is Hollowface" and "What is his purpose" type of idea, the ending is not as good as it could. I think the film takes a more thriller mystery aspect, and the director could have done more with the idea. Especially since the imagination of the two children seem to dictate what Hollowface does. 

Rating: 7/10

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