Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

I think I meant to watch Intruders (2015) and instead somehow ended up with this crud: The Intruders (2015). This isn't gonna be a long review because the less time we all waste here the better.It was absolutely fecking painful to watch, they have taken a few ideas used successfully in other films and done bugger all with them.Oh man, you know what, I can't even be bothered critiquing this POS, it was depressingly bad and just trying to think about it now that it is over is making seriously want to die.I need a drink.Just skip it, no redeeming features whatsoever.

In the intro a girl is kept in some cellar. Some guy with a camera arrives. She screams.A father and his daughter move into a house in a different town. He's an architect and always busy with work. The wife had mental issues and committed suicide at some point. The girl, Rose, is obnoxious, a college student taking a semester off and also has mental issues since her mother's death but refuses to take her pills, in fact she throws them away.As soon as she gets there the complains. But also early on she starts hearing loud noises of all kinds. And we too have to put up with exceedingly loud sound effects, noises, and music as if any second someone is going to just show up and skin Rose alive. And this goes on for the entire movie.Rose tries to befriend a girl across the street who also argues with her father and who also doesn't have a mother. This girl asks Rose how she can live in that house given what happened there. That freaks her out and she starts researching. The previous owner was a "pillar" of the community who helped and let people in need live in the house. One of those was the dad across the street. And also a girl who vanished. The dad across the street was suspected of the disappearance but eventually cleared. But this woman also had a son. Rose finds scratches in the cellar in her house with the missing girl's name. She magically gets herself locked into rooms, stuff disappears, of course heads of dolls appear and vanish, etc.Rose also becomes friends with some construction worker who takes her to a party but when he also fails to see any evidence of what she claims to hear she tells him to get lost.Finally, 15 minutes before the movie is over we learn what is going on. Rose finds a secret room with a secret attic and another secret inside. It's an unsatisfying explanation, but at least it's something after 1:15 hours of nothing.The Intruders has little going for it. Stories about people with mental issues simply don't work. Here we're lead around nose for a while. The main characters aren't sympathetic nor interesting. Nothing really advances the story in any meaningful way until the end. The sound effects instead of making things scary are just annoying. But it has fallen to the sound effects to make up for the lack of story and keep the audience from falling asleep.

It kinda saddened me that this movie went straight to DVD and digital download and didn't get a theater release but these things happen. So on the night of it's release, I started my download from iTunes right at midnight when it was available. I guess the movie description pretty much sums up the movie so I wont go deeply into it. What I do want to say is our beautiful beyond belief protagonist Rose is not the usual weak helpless woman like in other similar films in the genre. In other similar films, no one ever believes the victim, here her father doesn't but there's a good reason for it, here Rose has new friends that do believe her. The viewer is made to believe that Rose may or may not have mental problems. Rose has gone through some traumatic mental issues due to her mother's death. Thus the move to a new city and new house, to get a fresh start. Right away through Rose's exploration of the house you get the feeling of how she dislikes her new home and being that this all takes place in the dead of winter, there is a sort of claustrophobic feel since Rose has nowhere to run to and can't escape the possible antagonist in their new home that is messing with her, be it the weird father neighbor next door, the handyman, maybe it's supernatural, or maybe Rose has just gone insane. This movie does have a nice creep factor going on throughout.To be honest, it feels like writer Jason Juravic used the idea for this movie from the 1974 TV movie "Bad Ronald". As for the acting, the entire cast did a fine job. Miranda Cosgrove surprised me though. She did a very fine job being that this was her first time doing mystery/suspense. Jason Juravic did drop the ball a bit in writing. The antagonist was weak in story and background. It's as if Juravic rushed the story or had problems putting it together to make a cohesive and comprehensible story. It was messy and it showed towards the end. Director Adam Massey can share in the blame too. It's safe to say that Adam Massey is no Alfred Hitchcock. This seems to be his second film as director, first in the mystery/suspense genre. I don't really know him or his work, the only other thing he has done is television director work on those 'Man vs.' shows. Maybe another director that knows the genre could have done a better job but what's done is done. Still, I loved this movie. It was fun. The target audience are definitely tweens, early teens and any Miranda Cosgrove fan. The old, jaded by every movie on earth crowd won't like this, hell, they don't like anything. Being that I am a hardcore Miranda Cosgrove fan, I gave this a 10 but if it was any other actress, this movie would get a 7 from me. One last thing, the title 'The Intruders' relates to Rose and her father being the 'Intruders' in the house.

Like many other "Disney actors" (or Nickelodeon, in this case), Miranda Cosgrove decided to initiate the "serious" phase of her career with a horror film. That strategy worked very well for... for... mmh... let me think... there must be someone. Well, after all, that doesn't have much importance, because The Intruders barely qualifies as a horror film. Sure, we have the clichés of haunted houses and vindictive ghosts, but Jason Juravic's screenplay and Adam Massey's direction are so insipid and listless that they couldn't evoke any excitement on the spectator. And the least I say about the "big revelation", the better; it truly makes no sense. Among the few positive things I can say about The Intruders, Cosgrove managed to bring a competent performance, despite having had to work with such a poorly written character. I hope she will find more substantial projects in the future. Ryan Gosling! The strategy I mentioned on the beginning of this review worked for him; he started his career as a "mouseketeer", he ventured into light horror (Frankenstein & Me), and he later became a prestigious actor. Good luck, Cosgrove.