foutainoflife This movie was sorta dry for me. Likes I felt drawn into the movie from the start. I love Clive Owen playing the part of concerned father. I think he really gets into the role. The time spent trying to show his bond with his child adds depth to his character. This is a bit confusing and that is great for setting up a reveal and I look for that to help me sustain my interest. The acting from the rest of the cast was okay. Dislikes The girl in this is supposed to be 12 but she looks like she's 16 or so. It could've moved along much faster. The reveal was a bit of a let down and I didn't really understand what Hollowface was supposed to be. Was he a ghost? A demon? A manifestation derived from thoughts and fears? I wanted to understand his character a little bit better.Overall This was a decent film. It has a few issues and I wouldn't call this a horror film. I never felt scared. Maybe a bit of suspense but never fear. Clive Owen's acting carried this for the most part.

byungchulhan 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.

Lauren This movie isn't a horror movie it does have some thriller aspects to it and depending on your capacity for horror to me it's not scary but more of a thriller. I ended up being surprised by how it turned out its just it took a little long to get there. For example it sort of lacked in fully gripping you and more dragged in the first half. I do like how they played out the plot and showed you two different children in different parts of the world ones story is in Spanish and the other in English yet both experiencing the same fear of this Hollowface character. The plot did end up having a nice twist and also the showing u the emotional bond of a parent and their child. I personally ended up liking this film I was just a little disappointed because I went in expecting it to be more of a horror film.

doug_park2001 "Intruders" is generally well-made: Good acting, script, cinematography, arresting scenery, etc. It's definitely something different, with touches of "Pan's Labyrinth," though nowhere near as good as that film. Yet, the whole storyline has that same half-baked, fragmented feel that we get from so many films these days. Suspenseful at times, with some genuinely harrowing scenes, as well as some clever and surprising tie-ups. In the end, though, the whole feel of "Intruders" is draggy and repetitive. It just didn't play itself out and take me anywhere really interesting. Although some mystery is always nice, a little more revelation of who/what the "monster" is supposed to be--and how it came to be-- would be helpful.I can see why some like (or dislike) it more than I do, but I cannot see why anyone would find "Intruders" a truly special and rewarding film.