Intrusion (film)

Intrusion
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Directed by	Adam Salky
Written by	Christopher Sparling
Produced by	Kyle Benn Josh Weinstock Alexandra Milchan Matthew Myers Russell Hollander Christopher Sparling
Starring	Freida Pinto Logan Marshall-Green
Cinematography	Eric Lin
Edited by	Ben Baudhuin
Music by	Alex Heffes
Production companies	Creator Media Entertainment Sea Smoke Entertainment EMJAG Productions
Distributed by	Netflix
Release date	September 22, 2021 (2021-09-22)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Intrusion is a 2021 American psychological thriller film directed by Adam Salky and written by Christopher Sparling, starring Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green. It was released on September 22, 2021, by Netflix.^[1][2]

Plot[]

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Breast cancer survivor Meera and her husband, architect Henry Parsons, have recently moved into an isolated, ultra-modern house in Corrales, New Mexico, which Henry designed and built. Meera is plagued by concerns over her illness coming back, though Henry appears to be supportive, having cared for her when she first became sick. One evening, after returning home from a date night, the couple find that their house has been broken into and trashed; the only items stolen are a laptop and their cell phones, which they left behind so as not to be a distraction during their date. After talking to Detective Stephen Morse, Henry installs a security system at the house.

A few days later, Meera is woken in the middle of the night by a strange noise, similar to that of rattling pipes that Morse had mentioned to the husband during his visit. After she unsuccessfully tries to turn on the light, Henry goes outside to check the generator and finds it has been smashed. He realizes the intruders have returned after spotting flashlight beams in the windows; dashing back inside, he discovers Meera bound and gagged. He releases her and they try to escape, but are pursued by a group of masked men. Meera manages to get into her car, but then hears gunshots from inside the house. A wounded man staggers outside, followed by Henry, who shoots him.

At the police station, Meera argues with Henry over having secretly kept a gun in the house. They are shown mugshots of the three intruders, one of whom is still alive and in ICU at the local hospital. They were members of the Cobb family, living in a rundown trailer park on the outskirts of town. The couple is also told that college student Christine Cobb has recently gone missing, and that the trio is suspected to have been involved in her disappearance, which might go unsolved unless Cobb recovers. Meera is left traumatized by the events, and Henry tries to encourage her to put it behind them as they try to move on.

One night, when Henry drives off to buy supplies for the housewarming party they had been intending to host, Meera notices he has left his wallet behind and, afraid of being alone in the house, decides to follow him, which leads to her seeing him head in the direction of the local hospital instead of the store. Distracted, she collides with another vehicle, hindering her pursuit. Back at the house, she tells Henry what happened and questions him, to which he replies that he simply took a wrong turn.

With her car in the body shop, Meera borrows Henry's car to get to work. In the parking lot, she is approached by Morse, who informs her that the surviving intruder has died, thus closing the case. She also learns that he died on the same night she followed Henry to the hospital, and had been showing signs of improvement beforehand. Suspicious, Meera finds the Cobb home address after looking through the GPS record on Henry's car. Upon driving there, she finds an envelope bearing the logo of Henry's construction company inside their trailer. She opens the family's mailbox and takes the package inside, which contains a video camera; before she leaves, a neighbor harasses her, claiming to have seen Henry's car there a few days earlier and accusing her of "snooping". Back at the house, Meera is unable to play the tape as the camera won't work properly, and orders a new one online. While searching Henry's office, she finds a Pendrive with photos of the construction of their house, in which she identifies Dylan Cobb as one of the workers; she also sees pictures of Christine at the construction site.

The next day, Meera confronts Henry; he reveals that he was short of money to finish building the house, and committed fraud in order to lower the construction prices, though he intended to pay back the workers as soon as possible. He fired Dylan, a drug addict, after witnessing him mistreat his daughter, Christine; Dylan was enraged, threatening to expose Henry's dodgy financial dealings. Henry had been paying him to keep quiet, but after he stopped, Dylan and the other Cobb men broke into the house for revenge.

Having been reassured by Henry's explanation, the trust between Meera and her husband is reneewed, and she shows no interest in checking the video when the new camera eventually arrives. On the night of the housewarming party, however, she happens to pass by the television as it plays a news item about the still-missing Christine Cobb, which leads to her deciding to watch the tape. On it, Dylan rants about how he never liked the way Henry looked at his daughter, and states that after Christine disappeared, he'd gone to Henry's house with his dog to try and gather evidence of his involvement and the dog started barking furiously in the vicinity of the office, as if recognizing a scent.

In Henry's office, Meera discovers a hidden switch, which opens a secret door that leads to a basement she did not know existed. Upon descending, she is startled to see a gagged and blindfolded Christine, bound to a chair by chains attached to pipes, realizing that the girl's movements were the cause of the banging noises which had been previously heard in the house. Henry arrives before Meera can free her, revealing that he has always felt certain urges and that satisfying them was the only way they could be together, at which points she figures that Henry built their home so that he could have a place to keep his victims in secret. She tries to get help, but Henry overpowers her and ties her up before going back upstairs to send the guests home.

Meanwhile, Meera manages to break out of her bonds and release Christine. Henry comes back down to the basement as they are trying to escape, and a chase ensues. Henry knocks out Meera and drags Christine back down to the basement. There, he ties her up again and is about to kill her, but is instead fatally injured when Meera hits his head with a clock he had given her on their first date. As he dies, Henry questions Meera over who will now take care of her; she responds that she will take care of herself.

The final scene shows Meera moving out of the now empty house and driving away.

Cast[]

• Freida Pinto as Meera Parsons
• Logan Marshall-Green as Henry Parsons
• Robert John Burke as Detective Stephen Morse
• Sarah Minnich as Joanne Waterston
• Yvette Fazio-Delaney as construction crew member / suspect
• Clint Obenchain as Clint Oxbow
• Mark Sivertsen as Dylan Cobb
• Megan Elisabeth Kelly as Christine Cobb
• Hayes Hargrove as Bill Whitman
• David DeLao as Lieutenant Henderson
• Brandon Root as Peter
• Josh Horton as sergeant
• Bonita King as cafe patron

Reception[]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 23% based on 22 reviews, with an average rating of 4.5/10.^[3] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 39 out of 100, based on five critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".^[4]

References[]

External links[]

• Intrusion on Netflix
• Intrusion at IMDb