![]() But now the unrated cut is widely available, and in the video embedded above you’ll find out why we think you should seek out Intruder. Sadly, the R-rated cut was the only version of the film that was available for several years, which certainly didn’t help its reputation. In its unrated form, Intruder features some awesome, gory kills that were provided by KNB. Hell, they aren't even able to capture a basic sense of fun.A new episode of our Best Horror Movie You Never Saw video series (released under the Revisited banner) has just arrived online, and in this one we’re taking a look back at one of the most under-seen slashers of the ’80s, director Scott Spiegel’s 1989 film Intruder (pick up a copy of the unrated Blu-ray HERE). Next to nothing happens in the entire boring first half, the acting is terrible, the characters are annoying and not the least bit engaging, the music score (some of which was actually recycled from other films) is God awful, the attempts at comic relief are embarrassing, the editing is truly abysmal, the film lacks a proper ending and the makers are completely unable to generate any tension, suspense or excitement at any point in the film. Unfortunately, it takes more than a copious amount of fake blood and latex to make a good horror film and literally everything else about this one is poorly done. Some of the fx are well-executed by KNB, while others look rather rubbery, but they're fun all the same. This provides at least that much in its unaltered form.įor your money, you get knives sunk into chests and heads, a hook through a jaw, an eye-skewering, a head crushed by a hydraulic press, severed limbs all over the place and, most gruesomely of all, a head sawed in half with a band saw. However, the primary audience won't be tuning in for the story, they'll be tuning in for the gore. Not that it really matters one way or another as the identity of the killer and their motive turns out to be as obvious and ridiculous as can be. Owner Danny ( Eugene Robert Glazer) has sold the store to the city and plans on shutting the doors permanently in a week, which doesn't sit well with co-owner Bill ( Danny Hicks) or the rest of the staff. The other major suspects are, well, pretty much everyone else who works there. Craig had drug problems in the past, spent a year in prison for killing someone ( just a year?!) and now seems to be stalking his ex- girlfriend Jennifer ( Elizabeth Cox), who works as a cashier at the Walnut Creek Market. obvious red herring) in established early on in Craig ( David Byrnes), who we know is a bad guy because he's wearing a leather jacket and doesn't shave. In keeping with slasher tradition, the "plot" - psycho starts killing employees of a grocery store after hours - is as simplistic and thin as can be. Unfair as all that is, this is still simply not a very good movie, even in its uncut form. Intruder is just one of many genre films to receive this kind of 'bastard stepchild' treatment in the 80s and 90s. People like Steven Spielberg could pack as much violence and adult content into their films as they wanted and manage to skim by with whatever rating they wanted, while low-budget filmmakers were picked on and made examples of. The real culprits were that horrible moralist Jack Valenti and his corrupt MPAA, who showed considerable, hypocritical bias against not only horror films but independent films of all stripes, yet played favorites with the top brass in Hollywood. After all, they simply had product to market and sell and knew that being slapped with an "X" rating or "unrated" label would kill a film's full earning potential. Still, it's hard to really blame Paramount. ![]() Talk about contempt for your target audience! However, none of that should come as a surprise considering how the same studio treated their long-running Friday the 13th series, which ended up receiving more pre-release cuts than all Jason's victims combined. They then turned right around and hit those same slasher fans where it hurt the most by eliminating nearly all of the gore (over five minutes worth) to get an R rating while refusing to release an uncut alternative. For its inaugural release, Paramount re-titled what was originally called The Night Crew to the more generic-sounding Intruder because they felt the name would appeal more to slasher movie fans.
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