Intruders was either the victim of reshoots and postproduction meddling or it desperately needed some.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Apr 5, 2012

Gets disappointingly literal with what proves to be a goofy psychological story.

| Original Score: C | Mar 30, 2012

Joins the crowded subgenre of childhood boogeyman scare-fests that fail to find the spine-tingling power of what we think may be under the bed.

| Original Score: 2.0/5.0 | Mar 30, 2012

"Intruders'' looks great and has a promising opening, but this atmospheric Spanish psychological thriller is otherwise pretty underwhelming.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 30, 2012

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 29, 2012

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 29, 2012

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.

| Mar 29, 2012

Its muddled, overambitious story leaves us unsatisfied - you might even say hollow.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2012

Owen is a good actor stuck in a subpar creepfest that makes no good use of his gravitas and talents.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 29, 2012

"Intruders" promises much but delivers relatively little.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 29, 2012

Plays with classic horror elements of rain, bony monster fingers, vertiginous camera angles, and assorted shout-outs to Pan's Labyrinth.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 28, 2012

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 28, 2012

All Hollow Face -- a black-hooded, vaporous shape -- likes to do, apparently, is hover over sleeping bodies and snatch a leg or two.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2012

With nothing tangible at stake, Intruders is just an aggregation of influences that's as blank as its bogeyman.

| Mar 27, 2012

Izn Corchero and Ella Purnell play the children naturally, and in telling his parallel tales Fresnadillo creates and sustains a vaguely threatening atmosphere.

| Jan 27, 2012

A highly conventional supernatural chiller in a very ordinary Hollywood-ised manner.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 26, 2012

No. Just no.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 26, 2012

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 24, 2012

Though short on shocks and mild in horror terms, Fresnadillo's fantasy has a lot of heart and sincerity in equal measure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 23, 2012

Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's technical skills are impressive, but this psychological chiller loses traction in the over-explanatory concluding stretch.

| Sep 16, 2011