Just what I expected

A lot of fun.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Judging by the comment boards, this is what occurs when a movie like this garners very little attention: Viewers take the story too literally without attempting to think why the director added these things. Tell me... do you really think that the director purposely would've created such a melodramatic tale of two separate children being haunted by the same monster who eventually loses power at the end? And do you really believe that the dad simply stood by his daughter for experiencing a physical altercation with Hollowface?Does this really not match up to you people?If you were able to map this plot out, go deeper than how the movie appears, you would have seen a fascinating PSYCHOLOGICAL thriller developed through the utilization of a disturbed father carrying reminiscent fears of his childhood into his daughter's life. Hollowface possesses no physical manifestation, he is simply a product of terror and imaginative fear. It's all about psychology, thus this being a psychological thriller. The parallel story doesn't automatically correlate to an intersection between two stories occurring simultaneously either. There's a valid reason why the father is able to SEE Hollowface... It's because the tale of the little boy JUAN is JOHN's childhood experience... The trauma he had experienced never ceased although he was able to let go of it for a while. Also a great connection the movie made was the utilization of fathers as gateways into the kids' terrors. For John as a child, his dad was taken away to jail and for a reason or another he may have been traumatized (not sure for what, didn't pay attention to the beginning) and saw his dad coming back each night to haunt him. His mother understands the difficulties Juan faces, but is unable to do much for him at night because of the stepdad that has come into their lives (who casually dismisses Juan's nightly combat with the "monster"). For Mia, her dad was the one who planted the outline of the Hollowface story in the tree after John moved to England with his mother, and for years it remained in the tree. Yet Mia finds it one day and she is engulfed in this story, but slowly captures her psychologically and she soon fears of the same monster that haunted John as a child. She only begins to view manifestations of this monster when John attempts to comfort her, because he and her share the same fears derived from the original Hollowface John created as a response to trauma with his dad. Together they are the only ones who can see this "monster" and therefore are the only ones affected. The ending is a cross between psychology and reality (it's really up to you to decide), where Mia is liberated from her fears of Hollowface as a result of John relinquishing his trauma and fear of Hollowface that continued to haunt him out of his love for Mia. At the end as he tells Mia that parents are the reasons monsters including Hollowface can never get to their children, it's a conviction he has to himself and a reminder of his mother who helped liberate him from his own fears initially. This is an extremely fascinating movie, and while it bored me on many occasions, I loved the implications and connections it presented, in a very discreet manner. It's astonishing however to see so many digest the movie in minutes and take the face value so literally. I suggest watching it again and really looking out for the connections, metaphors, and message it tries to present. Intruders is quite the movie.

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.

A lot of people are complaining about the pace of the movie. And I do get it, it does take its time. A lot of it. Plus the two story lines are not for everyone either. But in the end it does make sense. Makes it even worth a second viewing if you will. Just to get the dots and connections you might have missed.While the movie is filled with tension, what really fuels it, is Clive Owens performance. It's at least power house what he delivers and it is necessary. I would call this movie not predictable, but maybe some will disagree. Still if you let yourself into the world (one that is well done, by the director), you will have a really good experience with it. And some shockers along the line

I usually love this type of movie: not being full of effects, full of violence and/or gore. But having a story to tell in some "spooky", or more like mysterious kind of way. With brilliant actors and a good twist at the end. In case of "Intruders" though, I was disappointed right from the beginning, as, for an, let's call it "advanced viewer", parts of the conclusion got presented right at the beginning of the movie. From that minute it's just speculating if you are right or wrong. When reaching the end you have to admit you weren't all right, but yeah, you knew it would end like this. This wouldn't be something new or would make a movie really bad, but Intruders got nothing else to shine with. The Plot isn't told in a good way. It's more like waiting for something to happen finally. And when you come to that point, there is no big surprise and not THAT BIG of a story-twist if you ask me. The more than average attempt to build up suspension with a rather "everyday plot" is what's left. It's too bad the movie's ending can't live up to that bit of given suspension. The good actors finally can't rescue this movie after all this. You will reach the point where you just want it to end.I recommend this movie to people who were really surprised at the end of "the sixth sense", which did present the "surprise" right at the beginning too (even if people still say they didn't knew what would happen, I personally can't believe it). For the story, it's more like "the machinist"...maybe. It's a rather calm movie with some "thrilling" effects. But nothing that prevents you from sleeping after seeing it. Also you won't think about it for the next few days, so it's really a gentle experience you want to have sitting at home, not really concentrating, since there's just not much to follow at the screen.Soooo, that's 4 Stars from me for pretty good acting, some thrills, average story, and a well-known but not convincing construction of the movie.