The Intruder 2019

      Scott and Meagan are a married couple and Scott has recently done very well at his job.  They saw a house in Napa that Meagan liked very much.  They are going back to look at it and it’s possible they may be able to buy it?  They meet the owner Charlie Peck and at first the price of the house is too high.  There is no way they could swing this price.  Charlie needs to sell, he reduces the price and Scott and Meagan are able to purchase the house..  Scott and Meagan move into the house and they start to make it their own.  There is one major problem!!  Charlie said he was going to move to Florida to be near his daughter?  He hasn’t left and he seems to always be around the house?  He seems to think that it’s still his house and he doesn’t like anything to be changed?  Scott is jogging and someone runs him off the road?  He’s in the hospital with a concussion and Scott believes that Charlie may have been the driver of the car?  Scott sends his friend Mike to check on Meagan.  Mike sees Charlie eating pizza with Meagan.
     This has some very creepy and scary moments but they were OK and I could take them.  There is a LOT in Charlie’s background that he didn’t divulge to Scott and Meagan.  It seems like Charlie wants to take over the house and own it again!!  The only way this can happen is if he can get Scott and Meagan to leave the house behind??  Expect guns, shooting dead bodies, blood spurts, a woman beaten up by a man, fighting with knives, stabbing, punching, attack of a man by a car and a LOT of scariness!!  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)

102 min, Drama directed by Deon Taylor with Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, Dennis Quaid, Erica Cerra, Kurt Evans, Carolyn Anderson, Lili Sepe, Raylene Harewood, Chris Shields, Sam Vincent, Caroline Muthoni Muita, Connor Mackay.

Note:  Imdb 5.5 out of 10 with 7833 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 32% critic 70% audience, Roger Ebert 1* Odie Henderson, Metacritic 39 out of 100 with 25 critics (2 positive 15 mixed, 8 negative) 4.7 out of 10 with 32 user scores (9 positive, 13 mixed, 10 negative), Amazon 4.1* out of 5* with 405 reviews, Letterboxd 2.3* out of 5*, Common Sense Media 1* out of 5*, age 14+, 4* violence, 3* sex, 3* language, 1* consumerism 2* drinking, drugs & smoking.

Special Note:  Filmed at 6741 24th Street, Langley and Vancouver, British Columbia.  Budget was estimated at $8 million and worldwide gross was $36,599,361.  This is the same house used for Cheryl’s house in Riverdale.  In the film Cold Creek Manor 2003, Quaid plays the husband of the couple who bought Stephen Dorff’s old house and then they are terrorized by Doff.  Ealy and Good also starred together in the Think Like A Man series.