Dark Intruder (1965)

Dark Intruder: Directed by Harvey Hart. With Leslie Nielsen, Peter Mark Richman, Judi Meredith, Gilbert Green. Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.

“Saw this film when I was younger and I have now seen it when I am older and it was an okay movie, but nothing too terribly great. Nice premise and good acting, just not enough bang for the buck, though it does feature some nice effects there just is not a high enough body count, no on screen kills and a plot with too many coincidences. Still, if you want to see Stephen Dorf in one of his earlier roles it has that going for it and a nice short run time so the movie does move quickly, but just not quick enough to get over some of the strange coincidences that make this film an eye roller at times too.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story has a boy returning home to an abandoned house. He explores and soon goes to the tree house which is promptly struck by lightening with him inside and soon he plummets to his bed as it was all a dream. Well, the tree in the dream is being torn done leaving a hole and a geode. The little boyu0026#39;s friend comes over and they dig up the covered hole in the hopes of finding another geode and do. Well the parents leave the sister in charge which is always a mistake as she immediately has a party where they levitate the boy and soon strange things begin happening as the hole may in fact be a gate to another realm where the old gods reside and they wish to enter our world once more and make it their own!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story has promise, but quite a number of oddball occurrences too. The whole party was pointless if things were not going to happen that night as I would rather have seen all those annoying teens hunted by demons. The fact the boyu0026#39;s friend Terry just happens to have an album that literally tells them what is happening is laughable. The chances anyone having this album is going to be slim, the chances of someone having it near the place where the gate has opened, super slim and none!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo, I do not want to bash the film too much as it does have some nice scenes going on within; however, it just needed a bit more horror and less fond remembrance and rockets. I would have much rather the scene when the demons first appear to have lasted longer so those two annoying sisters could have gotten a bit more payback as they were mean to the boy, the sister was annoying too, typical older sister always brushing off her younger brother. In the end, I nice quick horror film, with a few good scenes as the one where the dadu0026#39;s face melts off is a bit over the top for a PG-13 film! There would be a sequel featuring the neighbor boy Terry and I saw it once, but for the life of me I cannot remember it, I donu0026#39;t think it was nearly as good as this one though.”