He tears into the role of Charlie with gusto and is frankly quite unsettling in a way that I haven’t seen since Terry O’ Quinn in The Stepfather, a cult favorite in the horror genre. You know how they sometimes talk about a role that an actor plays that is against type, “See So and So like you’ve never seen So and So before!” Well, this is one of those kinds of roles and Dennis Quaid plays against his golden boy, hero type with a vengeance.
Now I have to have a word about Dennis Quaid. They are people who you can understand and empathize with that aren’t cardboard cut-outs. They seem like real people with real flaws and that is something that is missing from a lot of thrillers of this type, frankly. Scott and Annie Howard are played by Michael Ealy and Meagan Good and do solid work as a loving couple with trust issues and past trauma. Scott becomes suspicious, but Annie feels bad for the man, and Scott starts to try and find a way to discover what exactly Charlie Peck the charmer is really up to. Charlie seems determined to worm his way into their personal lives and own the house despite his claims that he is moving soon. Despite Scott’s reservations, they buy the home and move in, but Charlie seems unwilling to part with the house and keeps turning up at the house at an increasingly alarming rate. They find what Annie considers her dream home in a remote area and is a house that is being sold by Charlie Peck, a charming but strangely intense widower. Scott and Annie Howard are a couple recovering from a serious breach of trust in their marriage and decide to find their dream home in Napa Valley, away from the corporate life that Scott lives while running his company in San Francisco.
It is directed by Deon Taylor, whose previous films are Supremacy, Nite Tales, and Traffik, among others. There have been many iterations of the thriller about a beautiful couple whose lives and relationship are turned upside down by an obsessive and psychotic killer, why should you watch one more? Well, THE INTRUDER is a bit different, mostly in the performances and the turns that the story takes.
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