 This movie should be high on most people's lists of great 80 slasher's. Yeah, and it's really not actually. It's really forgotten. Hello and welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies, but before we get started, what are we drinking? Today we're drinking the last two bottles of Caprini Green Smoked Porter. Nice. You're all looking in the mirror after you're like, oh, my beers. Y'all get attacked by the candy, man. Today we're going to bring to you 1989's Intruder, a very underrated slasher. That's right. Intruder is directed by Scott Spiegel, and he actually co-wrote Evil Dead 2 with Sam Raimi. He's from that whole camp of guys, right? He's part of that Sam Raimi camp, where he buddies with all those guys. He also co-wrote the screenplay for The Rookie, the 1990 movie with Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen. Love that fucking movie. He's produced a lot of movies, but he's directed from Dust Till Dawn 2. Oh yeah, straight into video, baby. And Hostel 3. Dan Hicks is in this, and he's from Evil Dead 2. Bobby Joe! 45. 100 buck. Sam and Ted Raimi are in this, as well as Bruce Campbell. For two seconds. Intruder starts were introduced to our cast of characters here, all working at a supermarket together. They're closing up for the night, trying to usher out the last bunch of customers. Yeah, that old man. Mind the middle of something here, and then he drops all his shit. They're just about to close up, and one of the girls, Jennifer, her ex-boyfriend, shows up and starts harassing her. And they end up getting into this big fight, then all the other co-workers get in on it, and they're all trying to throw this guy out. He's like fending them off. He's doing a pretty good job. Yeah, he's all throwing everybody into those display cases here. Sam Raimi goes and all that display, beating them up. They finally usher them out. All the commotion is settled. The two owners of the supermarket can hold a little staff meeting, and they break the bad news that they're going to be selling the store, and shortly all of you guys will be out of jobs. So they're all kind of sad, you know? They all like the place. You know, a lot of them have worked there for a long time. Go back to work for their overnight shift, restocking and repricing everything at 50% off. Two owners are up in the office talking, and kind of get the impression that one guy, Bill, is not too happy about this sale. He doesn't really actually want it to go down. And the other guy is like, ah, whatever, just sign the papers, get it over with. Yeah, let's get this done with and get the money. We see a POV shot of somebody looking for a way to get into the supermarket. Craig keeps calling too in the meantime, and he keeps making threats and harassing Jennifer. I don't know why they keep answering the damn phone. Well, yeah, it's after hours too. It's like, you don't need to answer it. Linda leaves the store to go home, and when she opens up her car, there's a knife there just dang stabs her. So there's the first kill of the whole movie. Bill hears some stuff outside, and he figures that it's Craig kind of hunting around. He goes outside with a hammer. He's to take care of business one last time, I guess. He runs into Craig, and they get into it, and he ends up getting knocked out by Craig. With the hammer? Yeah, with the hammer. Somebody gets into the store and starts knocking the employees off one by one, and quite brutally too, I might add. And quickly. Yeah, and that's where we're going to end the plot. So if you want to keep watching and see what happens with all the employees, keep watching 1989's Intruder. But why should you watch Intruder? We're going to give you all the reasons why right now, because it's a pretty damn awesome slasher. That's right. One of the best things about this movie, and it's glaring, is the setting, right? The supermarket itself. It's an awesome place to have a horror movie. You've got all of these little nooks and crannies where somebody could be hiding. You've got these different rooms, different areas. The meat department. Yeah, the meat lockers. Yeah, the attic too, the attic space. It's all that cool like Halloween stuff and everything. Oh, the Halloween and Christmas decorations. Yeah, it's cool. And then the downstairs area where you have to go down those rollers to get down. Like a lot of really neat areas. The supermarket is almost a character in itself, right? And all these little rooms are almost little characters too. They've got little quirks about them. Yeah, it's great. Every movie should be like that, I think. Every movie, the setting should be the other character. That's right. One extra character is the setting, and this movie nails that. I like too how they're isolated. You don't know exactly where they are, but you assume that it's this small, dinky town, right? So after hours, it's like nobody's coming around. You also feel like they're in the middle of nowhere, because you look out, they show like a lot of shots from the inside looking out, and you see just darkness. Blackness, yeah. Darkness. Darkness! Darkness is spreading! Fuck your couch! Yeah, so it really gives you that sense of foreboding, and that where are these characters gonna go, right? They need to stay in the store, because the store is like salvation almost, right? Yeah, you do really get that sense of isolation, and it really does feel like this store is plopped literally in the middle of nothing. There's nothing around. The characters in this movie are really good too, and there's a lot of them, so it's kind of actually hard to keep track of them all. There are some really memorable characters, like both Sam and Ted Raimi, are very good in this. Funny and quirky. Ted Raimi always has his headphones and his Walkman on, and you never know, he's completely oblivious to everything. So listen to that shitty song. Like even when they all get fired, he's completely oblivious. Guy walks by, hey, you lost your job. He's still working, cutting up that watermelon. Like who cuts up a watermelon like that? He's all digging it, just destroying it. You're gonna put that on the shelf? Like one character always talks like this all the time. Right. He's like, what's this guy's problem? But you realize, ah, he's just playing a character, and he's doing that for the sake of being campy. That's right, yeah. It's forgivable, right, with the sort of movie that it is. The camerawork in this movie really sets it apart from a lot of other slashers. Oh yeah. There are some great, very interesting, original camerawork and shots happening throughout the whole movie. Start to finish, you know. A lot of POV, like even the POV of the shopping cart and everything. Like, when do you see the POV of a shopping cart? Yeah, that's right, yeah. It doesn't have eyes? Yeah. But it all helps to put you there, right? Yeah. It makes you feel like you're part of the action. A lot of cool overhead shots where you see like the whole scope of the supermarket. Yeah, how big it really is. Yeah. Like where these people have to run to to get away from things. A really interesting, cool shot where one of the owners is up in his office and he's having a drink and the glass is in front of the camera, right? He picks up, takes a drink that puts the glass back and then your vision's obscured by the glass and you see him get killed but you can't see the killer because the glass is obscuring your vision. It's a really neat way to keep the killer a mystery. All the little subplots for the characters are neat too, the way they flesh the characters out a little bit because it makes you care about the characters and if they're gonna get killed or not, right? That's major to a horror movie. Jennifer and her asshole boyfriend, you have the subplot with the two owners, kind of a little butting heads about the sale of the whole thing. He owns 51%, I own 49. I mean, there's a little love interest happening between two of the characters which is another kind of subplot. So there's a lot of other things happening besides just the killing. That's right, yeah. And then the cops show up too and they don't do anything. You can totally use it. They're all old, they're like 80 years old, like bumbling. What are you gonna do? It took five strapping young men to take care of this craig. Yeah, I need these two old cops. What are you gonna do? And the humor is really good in this movie too, right? Like it's intentionally funny in the right places. That's right, yeah. And a lot of it's dialogue driven too, but a lot of it, the settings help, right? There's things that they're doing that's funny as well. And the kills for this movie, they're awesome. Absolutely awesome. There's that compressor, elevator type thing or whatever the hell it is where the killer puts one of the victim's heads halfway in and starts to lower the platform down and crushes his head. Half of his head? Half, yeah. Oh, it looks so good. It doesn't look cheesy. It looks spectacular. It reminds me a lot of two other kills. The fly too. Security guard gets his head crushed in the elevator. And toxic Avenger when he kills a guy with the weights. Oh yeah, that's kind of the same idea. But this is really good. Yeah. On a low budget. There's a bandsaw kill too, which is even better. Oh yeah. Like they show more of it and it's like the teeth and all that getting all ground up. It's like, yeah, you'll feel it. It puts the guy's head vertically through the bandsaw. Like this dot looks so good. I like how the killer too. He's all strong. Super strong. Like yeah, he can just lift these people up with one hand and everything. The killer and the beer cooler is really good. He stabs the guy and it goes through him into all the beer cans. And then the beer starts spraying everywhere. Yeah. The generic beer. This is beer. Slams his eye into that spike thing that nobody uses anymore. Like a super outdated thing. Those spikes to put receipts or whatever on it. Aren't you wrecking the paper? Kind of like numbers and stuff that might be on it. They've all been outlawed because too many people have been killed with them. Like this was looking. The way the kills are shot are really neat too. Like the way the blood splatters. Like when that one guy gets killed outside of the supermarket. Yeah. And his blood sprays onto the outside glass. And then like everything turns red on the inside. Because the light shining through the glass is like really stylistic. The music is really good for this movie too. And it really helps to build the mood and foreboding for a movie like this. Yeah. That's what I thought too. And even just the opening credits. It's just a shot of the moon. Yeah. With some clouds going through it. And then this music. And it sets the tone for the movie perfectly. You kind of feel at home. The moon and the clouds and this music. This is going to be good. Here we go. Yeah. You're settling in. Now we're going to get into some spoiler territory. So if you haven't seen Intruder and you don't want the ending to get wrecked for you. Stop. Watch the movie. Come back and watch this. There's a reveal at the end where you find out the killer actually isn't the boyfriend Craig. It's the co-owner Bill. And it's a really cool bait and switch. Yeah. Because you're not expecting it to be Bill whatsoever. You think he's dead actually. And his motive is hilarious. Yeah. Because he doesn't want the store to close. Stores my life. I love this store. It's like so why do you have to kill all of us? Well I can't let you stop me. What? Kind of like the way we felt when the movie store is closed. I can't let you close the store. Yeah. I love this store. And then the final showdown between Bill and the final girl is epic. Yeah. It goes throughout the whole supermarket. Spills to the outside. Get a really good payoff. The ending also reveals how, I guess how silly the killer is for his motives. But also how twisted and deranged he is too. It's like that head scene. He tells that story with the ham sandwich in the head early on. And then he's actually doing that later eating the sandwich. Yeah. And then he starts beating the guy with the severed head. And watching this a second time knowing that Bill is the killer. Yeah. It's really cool to see how they hide the fact that Bill's the killer. Now that you know watching a second time it's like okay yeah they did a really good job of like not cluing you in whatsoever and really fooling you to think that Craig is the killer. That's right. They did a really good job with that. They didn't cram that down your throat. They just kind of had it sort of nonchalantly. Yeah. And you wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't Craig but you are surprised that it is Bill. And even at the end end the killer still gets a one-up on everybody else even though he's dead. Because just before he dies like he was damn officer. Yeah. They killed everyone in the supermarket. And then he died. And then they arrested them the final girl in Craig. Yeah. So he still kind of wins. Cool thing about Intruder is it's kind of half cliche and half very original. So that the cliche parts really feel familiar to you but the originality makes it stand out amongst a lot of other really shitty slashers. That's right. Yeah. You know this this this movie should be high on most people's lists of great 80 slashers. Yeah and it's really not actually it's really forgotten in terms of that. And it is better than most higher end slashers or more familiar slashers like Friday the 13th. Yeah I think this is a way better slasher than Friday the 13th. A million times better. It's more enjoyable that's for sure. Yeah. Fun watch. It's the the original Friday the 13th is actually boring. Yeah. It kind of feels like it goes nowhere. Tell me if I'm wrong if you can think of a better one let me know. But I think that this might be the last great slasher of the 80s. Yeah. This came out in 89 the 90s are about to happen slasher genre is pretty much going to be dead now until Scream comes out. So this is probably the last great slasher before Scream revived it. It's an end of an era this this movie kind of stamps an end of the 80 slasher era you know. That's right yeah because then after this then you start getting into different effects too and then computers start to take over it just doesn't have the same feel. Yeah so if you want a really good fun slasher this in the vein of the Evil Dead movies because it's done by those guys that whole crew of guys yeah it's got Ted Raimi in it Sam Raimi Bruce Campbell is directed by the co-writer of Evil Dead 2 how can you go wrong. Yeah and you you can't and you don't. Yeah so if you haven't checked it out and you're a slasher fan or just a fan of fun campy movies definitely check out Intruder it won't disappoint. No not at all and until next time keep drinking. I can't let you finish this beer I love this beer.