This was an incredibly fun watch full of gore and crazy camera angles. The store is basic but put to good use, the location is great and works well, the characters are stereotypes but they are fun and not annoying. The film picks up steam as it goes and while the main twist can be seen a mile away the smaller twist was pretty damn refreshing. Great way the end the film.

Scott Spiegel's love-it or hate-it slasher yarn is fun to watch even after you've noticed what a shallow, plot less little movie it really is. I would, however, recommend genre fans to watch this film just once in order to enjoy Spiegel's imaginative camera angles, the clever and original use of supermarket as the basis for the cat-and-mouse slasher games, and the gratuitous gore sequences which really go over the top, big time. Speigel has his camera from weird points of view like a doorknob, the bottom of a bin or shopping trolley, often making a quirky and quite funny effect. He continued in this vein with 1999's FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 2, although it appears that not many people like his style of filming. This is the perfect definition of a successful low budget slasher flick; the crew shot at night in a real supermarket, without any big effects or name actors, and they made a film that's far more entertaining than many big budget offerings in the genre.The film's middle section is a hoot, as various members of staff are brutally murdered one by one by a mystery killer. The beginning and ending sequences are a little slow but mainly passable, and the whodunit aspect, while overdone and a little obvious, adds to the feel of the movie. Sadly whoever designed the video box art for this movie decided to spoil the killer's identity right away: why are some people in this world so stupid? The acting is all right for such a low budget film, and the tongue-in-cheek script keeps things rolling nicely along with plenty of in-jokes and cameo appearances for genre fans. Seemingly half the folk who made/were in EVIL DEAD II (including the same special effects crew) have appearances in this movie, from Bruce Campbell's welcome cameo right at the end of the movie as a cop, to Ted Raimi's hilarious appearance as the music-loving "Produce Joe", to Sam Raimi (as a butcher) to the incredibly loathsome Danny Hicks (great once again) as the store manager.Well, the gore effects are what most fans of this movie would want to see, and they come thick and fast. Amidst the usual stabbings we have a guy's eyeball being impaled on a spike, a knife cleaving a skull in two, a hydraulic head crushing (very gruesome), a hook in a face and, in the film's gruelling highlight, a man's head being cut in half by a band saw. The effects are bloodily messily but never disturbing, as you know a film which includes a shot of a man being beaten with a severed head isn't playing it straight. INTRUDER is a minor classic in its uncut form, and with all the effects, the imaginative camera-work and the mean streak of humour running right through, it's a real visual feast if nothing else.

It's been really long time since, I seen this once, some of gore moment still stuck wit for years after the movie. The movie start of not great, really odd badly done fight scene, the fight scene was bad ,it funny and dose make sure of the movie look a little outdated now. Sooner then later, people are being killed by someone in the shop and the kills are best thing about this movie, I loved all the great awesome gory death scenes in this movie, very gory and do not eat while watching this. I did forget about the twist the movie, which was really well done, I don't think I have ever been shocked by same movie twice. Was just me, when one boys being dragged by the killer, screaming and acting like girl are far to funny to take serious, he sure had one the most gruesome kills in this movie. Great gory deaths in this movie and the movie flowed fell but some of it done seem a little out dated now! The acting was really good and some of bad acting is actually funny, so make movie even more enjoyable. 7 out of 10

This is a slightly above average slasher film that delivers what you expect. Also the fact that the locale in this outing is a supermarket and not some deserted backwoods, run-down farm house or holiday camp is refreshing. The story starts as the supermarket is about to close for the night and the last few customers are being ushered towards the cashiers. An old ex-boyfriend of one of the check-out operators turns up, starts causing trouble and a fight ensues between him and several of the staff and he's ejected from the store. The night staff are then advised that the store is going to close down and to their dismay they'll all have to stay back to mark products down to half-price.This is where the fun starts as random staff are picked off one by one, including the abrasive store manager, in inventive ways, such as meat hooks, hydraulic compactors and even a receipt holder spike.The fact that the start of the movie alludes to the idea that this is all done by the aforementioned ex-boyfriend, makes it all too convenient, so you have a feeling that it's not going to be him, and for a while at least you're left wondering who else it may be. That part was done reasonably well. It's for this reason and for some of the death scenes I rated this at 5 stars. But again, the ending lets it down as the one girl who's left tries in vain to get out via the front exit as she tries to smash her way out but fails, however in a supermarket there are normally loading docks, fire exits, windows, vents etc. surely the killer can't be watching all of them at once. This becomes one of those movies where you're asking yourself, why don't they do this or just go over there and try that, which makes watching a movie of this calibre very frustrating, so you'll have to check your brain at the door if you want to enjoy this all the way through.An annoying aspect of this is the deliberate and overall stupidity of most of the characters as well as the very tedious ending. The police who eventually turn up are equally stupid. They arrive they handcuff the 2 survivors without question and start abusing them on the hood of the police car. They don't seem to call for an ambulance for the bleeding and still alive person lying just behind them in a smashed phone booth.Intruder is an OK slasher flick and is worth a watch if you're an 80's slasher movie completist, but there is little need to own your own copy.