- Actors: Dennis Quaid, Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, Joseph Sikora
- Director: Deon Taylor
- Format: NTSC, Subtitled
- Language: English
- Subtitles: Thai, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, English, French, Spanish, Vietnamese, English
- Dubbed: French, Spanish
- Audio Description: English
- Region: Region 1
- Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rated: Parents Strongly CautionedPG-13
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: July 30, 2019
- Digital Copy Expiration Date: December 31, 2020
- Run Time: 102 minutes
When a horror
film’s social or political subtext becomes more important than the logic of the
narrative and the characters within it, it is somewhat like being able to see
behind the curtain. The surface narrative of horror should be strong enough to
support the themes, not the other way around. While The Intruder is clearly playing upon some real American fears, with
an aggressive white landowner as the villain against a newly
arrived/assimilated black couple, it does so with zero subtlety and
consistently illogical behavior written into each character as a lazy way of
moving the story (and its racially-driven themes) forward. Taking the home
invasion narrative away from the post-9/11 terrorist anxieties and replacing it
with fears of white nationalists refusing to surrender ‘their’ America to the
minorities they consider to be ‘less American,’ all that The Intruder is missing is a good film to go with its themes (ones
already visited in the last installment of The Purge franchise).