{"id":4235,"date":"2012-02-04T14:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T19:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2012-02-04T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T19:33:59","slug":"return-of-intruder-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4235","title":{"rendered":"Return of Intruder (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2856\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 260px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Intruder_1989_still_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2856\" title=\"Intruder_1989_still_s\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Intruder_1989_still_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yup, you get to see the before, the during, and the after of this poor chum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Scott Spiegel\u2019s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/i\/3807_Intruder1989.htm\">Intruder <\/a><\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4223\">M<\/a>] (1989) is more notorious for its  gore sequences and the casting of brothers Sam and Ted Raimi (both of whom die  violently as night shift workers in a soon-to-be-shuttered grocery store), but  shorn of these key elements, Spiegel\u2019s directorial debut is pretty much a \u2018meh\u2019  effort; not awful, but not brilliant, even though there are several strong  aspects to the film (notably the location).<\/p>\n<p>For Raimi fans, Synapse\u2019s new Blu-ray is a welcome addition  to the collection, given the film\u2019s first VHS release was snipped of its  nastiness, and the prior uncut DVD edition from Wizard was a bare bones release. This  is the definitive release, and it helps fill in those little gaps that make up  the early efforts by members of Sam Raimi\u2019s filmmaking clan.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure how you\u2019d classify the group \u2013 a clique? The Michigan Gonzo  Collective? \u2013 but it\u2019s pretty amazing that a group of avid movie fans who made  Super 8 shorts together as best friends managed to fulfill their goals and  become filmmakers, period.<\/p>\n<p>1989 was also a year where members Ted, Sam, and master  thespian and chin-endowed Bruce Campbell sort of hovered between projects  initialized by themselves, written by, produced, doctored, or appeared in roles  either for the fun of it, as favours, or a gag. Not including the Super 8  shorts, there remain a handful of feature films still unavailable on DVD and \/  or Blu-ray, or at least in versions or special editions deserving of the group  (if not purely for fan benefit).<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>Intruder<\/strong> off  the list, that leaves <strong>Crimewave<\/strong> (1985), <strong>Easy Wheels<\/strong> (1989), <strong>The Nutt House<\/strong> (1992), and from my  list, a widescreen\u00a0<strong>Indian Summer<\/strong> (1993), where  Sam plays a nearly mute camp hand who\u2019s just &#8216;there,&#8217; doing work, and  occasionally getting hit very hard where it hurts.<\/p>\n<p>Spiegel isn\u2019t as skilled as colleague Josh Becker  (<strong>Running Time<\/strong>), and his mania for hitting audiences with bizarre camera angles  is interminable, but <strong>Intruder <\/strong>does have a few genuine merits, and the review  addresses the film\u2019s pros &amp; cons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>(  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just uploaded is a review of Intruder, the 1989 feature directorial debut by Scott Spiegel, part of Sam Raimi&#8217;s filmmaking clique. Synapse&#8217;s nice Blu-ray \/ DVD combo set features a 2K transfer of the Director&#8217;s Cut, of which the highlight is a realistic head-sawing sequence with prosthetics designed by the brilliantly sick folks at KNB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[877,1073,876,1070],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-16j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}