The Intruder

The Intruder

Genre: Horror
Country: Thailand
Tally: 31 out of 80

In 1983 before the giant Suvarnabhumi international airport was built, the neglected and unoccupied area was called “King Cobra Swamp” by the locals. As building commenced, a huge old Banyan tree blocked the constructions path. A work crew call in a mechanical digger to remove the tree. As the roots are torn from the ground 1000s of cobra bones explode from the earth tearing them to pieces. After the passing of the grim massacre, witnesses who survived tell strange stories about and evil Cobra spirit. Years later when a new apartment block was built on the ground, Nin, the buildings owner has to face the horrifying matter when hundreds of Cobra hell bent on killing every living person in the apartment appear. People believe that again it is the vengeance of the Spirit. How will they survive, when being hunted by vengeance without mercy?

No where in the movie do you learn any of the above. Unless somehow I blacked out during the explanation.

This may very well be the worse movie of SIFF 2011. Yes, a certain amount of cheese is expected out of the midnight movies. But wow, does this movie trump all others before it. The reason I stayed awake during this fine example of “where you can go wrong when making a movie”, is because I was laughing so much and my friend and I were constantly making fun of it.

The following may include some spoilers, but who cares. What is there to spoil?

The first thing you should know about this movie, is the amazing soundtrack that is used. Why yes I’m being sarcastic. The soundtrack of the entire movie contains one ballad. These people seriously know how to save a couple of bucks. The ballad first contains this piano piece. Then it moves on to violins. Every portion of the movie that contained some sort of sadness they used the ballad. At times they used the whole piece. Other times just the piano piece. Other times just the violin portion. As soon as you heard the strains of this awful ballad, you knew you are suppose to feel sad, at least you are suppose to.

As with a lot of horror movies, you witness stupid move after stupid move. But the stupidity in this movie, took it to an all time new high. In one portion of this movie, the guy proceeds to take his shirt off to do battle against a snake. Why? I thought perhaps he was going to throw the cloth over the snake, but that didn’t happen. All he did was discard the garment on the ground. He breaks the glass that contains an axe and hose for fire emergencies, proceeds to take axe and chops off head of snake. Then he throws axe to the ground because I guess it is a one time use axe. I can live with that. Not 10 minutes later, in the same room, for whatever reason, guy who has been bitten begs his girlfriend to cut off his leg. She breaks some glass, takes a huge chunk and attempts to chop off his leg with it… Uhm… You have an axe on the ground next to you, and you choose to use a piece of glass to cut off someone’s leg. That is definitely a genius in the making.

The acting is, wait… What acting? It was really really bad acting. Bad music, bad acting, bad dialog, a non cohesive story, you don’t become invested in the the people so you could care less about who survives or dies. Not to mention the questionable CGI used and it felt kind of like avanced film students who wanted to try out a bunch of techniques in videography, but the execution or use wasn’t the best. This all amounts to an extremely bad movie.