Intruders 2011

Ethan Gilsdorf, Boston Globe: Its muddled, overambitious story leaves us unsatisfied - you might even say hollow. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: It's a pleasure to find that Mr. Fresnadillo has assumed the mantle of horror classicist to make "Intruders," using shadows and directorial sleights of hand to coax forth its slow-building scares rather than just pouring on the usual guts and gore. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: [This] attempt to marry a monster movie with high-toned themes of storytelling and memory yields something more generic than it sounds. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "Intruders" promises much but delivers relatively little. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Plays with classic horror elements of rain, bony monster fingers, vertiginous camera angles, and assorted shout-outs to Pan's Labyrinth. Read more

Eric D. Snider, Film.com: Gets disappointingly literal with what proves to be a goofy psychological story. Read more

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's technical skills are impressive, but this psychological chiller loses traction in the over-explanatory concluding stretch. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: This is ... an intelligent, scary little movie. Because it's smart enough to know what's really scary is what's inside us. Read more

Andrew Lapin, NPR: Little happens in the first act, and most of what transpires in the second will be contradicted by the events of the third. Doesn't leave much of a net sum. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Owen is a good actor stuck in a subpar creepfest that makes no good use of his gravitas and talents. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: "Intruders'' looks great and has a promising opening, but this atmospheric Spanish psychological thriller is otherwise pretty underwhelming. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Intruders is never scary, and it's so implausible and uninvolving that even when it's being explained, it is still unconvincing. Talky psychology is a poor substitute for supernatural thrills. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Why do so many horror movies that begin with promise fall apart in the final act? Read more

Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: If you don't guess the big twist in the first 30 minutes, "Intruders" is half of a good movie. If you do, it's about a third of a good movie. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: As these parallel supernatural mysteries begin to meld into one another, all semblance of credibility dissolves, leaving behind an impenetrable and frustrating fog of unanswered questions. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: All Hollow Face -- a black-hooded, vaporous shape -- likes to do, apparently, is hover over sleeping bodies and snatch a leg or two. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: With nothing tangible at stake, Intruders is just an aggregation of influences that's as blank as its bogeyman. Read more