Intruders
Intruders
Intruders tells parallel stories of two families whose lives are disrupted by menacing apparitions: in Spain, a mother tries to protect her son from a faceless stranger, while in Britain, a young girl has terrifying dreams of a demon who becomes a real danger to her and her family.
2.0 out of 5 based on 9 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Certificate |
15 |
| Genre |
Horror, Thriller |
| Director |
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo |
| Cast |
Daniel Bruhl, Carice van Houten, Kerry Fox, Pilar López de Ayala Clive Owen |
| Studio |
Universal Pictures |
| Release Date |
January 2012 |
| Running Time |
100 mins |
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Intruders tells parallel stories of two families whose lives are disrupted by menacing apparitions: in Spain, a mother tries to protect her son from a faceless stranger, while in Britain, a young girl has terrifying dreams of a demon who becomes a real danger to her and her family.
Reviews
Empire Magazine
Damon Wise
“As ever in Spanish horror, the genre is just a smokescreen to conceal a thoughtful and sensitive meditation on a country still smarting from the aftershocks of civil war and a dictatorship that suffocated it for 40 years ... deep down it is about buried secrets and, rather like Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone, the way the skeleton in the closet sometimes just won’t stay put.”
23/01/2012
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The Evening Standard
The Evening Standard
“Hasn't the power of something like The Others.”
27/01/2012
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
“Really very humdrum stuff.”
26/01/2012
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
“Intruders taps into primal fears of both parents and children, but its impact is somewhat muffled by the wavering between these two poles. ”
27/01/2012
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Scotland on Sunday
Siobhan Synnot
“Early atmospheric chills eventually give way to an exasperating plot twist.”
22/01/2012
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Time Out
Nigel Floyd
“Fresnadillo cannot make up his mind whether he wants this to be a multiplex-friendly horror movie focused on a hooded monster named Hollow Face or a more subtle emotional fable about two children whose made-up stories and darkest fears conjure up and feed a faceless killer.”
23/01/2012
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The Observer
Philip French
“The twist is that the two stories are not concurrent, though in the end this doesn't make the film more coherent or plausible.
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29/01/2012
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
“The film’s style inclines more to the Hispanic side of things, being a slightly cruder version of the shadowy fairy-tale horror associated with Guillermo del Toro.
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29/01/2012
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The Times
Kevin Maher
“Nearly 100 agonising minutes of scare-free inanity, it reveals that both stories are, in fact — lucky us — connected! And therefore? ”
27/01/2012
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