![]() Heck, the man himself, Bruce Campbell, has a quick cameo at the end of the movie! Everyone else does a fine job alongside them, even if there weren’t any other standouts. Dan Hicks from Evil Dead II is really good and very likable as the storeowner, and Burr Steers (who played Roger in Pulp Fiction) comes very close to stealing the show as Bub, the stereotypical stoner dude who gets one of the best deaths in the movie and one of the best lines ( "I swear to God, if my brother hadn't hit him repeatedly on the head with a blender he would have killed me!"). ![]() Elizabeth Cox makes for one of the best (and most underrated) scream queens of the decade, and she does do a lot of screaming! Renee Estevez has a small role as well, and the brothers Raimi (Sam & Ted) pop up as entertaining cannon fodder. The overall effect of Intruder is greatly helped by its cast. It’s not flawless, but it definitely provides the goods. Subtly humorous dialogue, hilarious visual gags, buckets of blood, creative deaths, and likable characters. In fact, about half way through, I realized that when I make my slasher opus (the day will come!), it will probably look something a lot like this. Then, after recently watching Synapse’s new Blu-Ray of the movie, I found that I really dig this movie! I don’t know what I was expecting before, but this is a great example of a slasher that, instead of trying to do something new, goes with the traditional formula and has fun with it. I watched it again a little while later, and still didn’t really appreciate. I watched Intruder a couple years ago, and, to be frank, I wasn’t impressed. Can he be stopped, and who will clock-out…alive? Finally, an unseen maniac begins killing off the night crew one by one in creative and spectacularly gory ways. Then they discover that Walnut Lake Supermarket is closing down for good in a short while, and they will all lose their jobs. First, the disgruntled ex-boyfriend of employee Jennifer (Elizabeth Cox) causes a commotion by harassing Jennifer, beating up other employees, and escaping with the lingering possibility he could still be in the area. The night crew at Walnut Lake Supermarket is having a bad night. In that time period, Raimi made a pretty good superhero movie ( Darkman), Bruce Campbell appeared in some expectedly-schlocky horror movies ( Waxwork II, Maniac Cop, Moontrap, etc.), and writer Scott Spiegel decided to take the reigns on his own horror movie, with an even lower budget than the two Evil Dead movies! ![]() Okay, so you might not exactly be looking over your shoulder the next time you stroll down the liquor aisle, but you get the picture.After the success of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II, it was going to take five years before the follow-up (and the greatest movie ever made), Army of Darkness, would see release. Just about the only thing really missing here is some gratuitous nudity (as if no one’s ever knocked boots in the aisles after closing!) otherwise, it’s a fine slasher that does for supermarkets what The Burning did for summer camp. Hopefully it helps Intruder find a wider audience because this is a pretty good obscure slasher waiting for rediscovery. Synapse Films also just recently released it with a DVD/Blu-ray set that restores the film's widescreen ratio and is by all accounts a fine disc. The 2-channel audio track is also adequately clear, but there are no special features besides a handful of trailers. It’s about a five year old release, but it boasts a full frame transfer that’s strong, given the source material. To check it out in all its unrated glory, pick up Wizard Entertainment’s DVD (which is where the screen caps here are taken from). Tonally, it embodies the overall feel of 80s slashers fairly well it’s also pretty well put together overall to boot, so it rises towards the top of the blood-soaked slasher pool. It’s a welcome element because it indicates that Spiegel and company really were just out to have a good time, and they want you to laugh right along with them. It’s not the over-the-top splatstick fare of Evil Dead II, but rather a more reserved, understated humor that relies on clever cross-cutting between scenes and visual puns. Another possible Raimi influence is the presence of a sort of wry, clever humor in the form of sight gags.
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