The Dream House of Nightmares

As you probably know by now, I’m a sucker for psycho-stalker flicks.  Just two months removed from 'Greta,' we get another in the form of ‘The Intruder’ starring Dennis Quaid, Michael Ealy and Meagan Good.  I actually debated whether to see this one or skip it altogether but had some time to kill after work and an AMC membership allowing me to watch three new movies a week, so what the heck.

 

If you’ve seen the film’s trailer, you no doubt are aware that it’s about a young black couple (Ealy and Good) who bought an idyllic dream house in California’s Napa Valley because they wanted to get away from the hustle and bustle of the big city, only to find themselves terrorized by the seemingly charming man (Quaid) who sold them the house.  Events escalate in typical psycho-stalker movie fashion until things come to a head resulting in bloody violence and death (as to whose I’ll leave it to you to guess).

 

True to formula, ‘The Intruder’ delivers everything we would come to expect: a certain level of creeping suspense, escalating conflict, a pervy voyeuristic antagonist who seemingly appears out of nowhere and can go anywhere he pleases, and a satisfying if somewhat predictable conclusion when said pervy voyeuristic antagonist gets his just desserts.  So if you, like me, are predisposed to such movies you are likely to be much more forgiving than most of the professional critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Grade: C