I actually kind of loved it...

Okay okay, the film is not perfect. It has problems. But I watched this film the other night on a whim, and was pleasantly surprised at how much I kind of loved this.

It's just nice to get a slower paced thriller, that tackles an interesting subject. Maybe that's the problem. There film is marketed as a horror film, but it really doesn't deliver the goods on that level. And no, I don't think horror = gore. Some of the best horror films have no violence, but leave you disturbed or give you the chills.

The subject matter had the potential to be disturbing. And I think that's where the film kind of drops the ball. But seeing it more as a thriller, where I was more interested in the premise and finding out what Anna was about - I really enjoyed this film.

The biggest flaw is both the ending, but also how it kind of casually deals with the plot. Like I said, it needed more grit. The idea that her brother was re-living the murder over and over, and she was trapped by the Trauma of her Dad was disturbing. But the way it's casually revealed (by the idiot trapped in the room seemingly being able to figure it out as the film needs the audience to know)...really took the wind out of its sail.

I would say this is where the film actually starts to come apart. When the film has the trapped victim peice together what happened. From that point on, the film just casually tells us everything and then strolls to the ending.

Also as others have said, they had the perfect ending set up. It was there teed up. It's actually baffling they didn't take it. But the obvious ending was that Dan comes back to fin JP raping Anna on the bed, and he uses the sheet to choke him to death. (Again it's like poetry it rhymes). Thus Dan completing the cycle.

If they wanted a twist, they could have made it so Anna did this all along. She flaunted the cash in front of Dan, and had moved everything this way to find a replacement for Conrad. Dan could still be a genuine character that loves her, but she manipulates and pushed him into the role she needs him to be (the replacement for Conrad). So the disturbing aspect of this, is that Dan doesn't realize that she had set the whole thing up to get him to become what she needed him to be.

Even if you don't like that ending, it still makes sense narratively speaking. It's built up to, and is a logical loop closure. The only issue with that plot thouh, is it requires Anna to hope that Dan would tell someone about the Cash. So her whole plan would rely on hoping Dan would happen to know bad people and tell them. But they could fix that, by having more scenes with her and Dan bonding, and her knowing about his friends.

Either way, what we got instead - was Anna magically being cured of phobia and deep mental psychosis / trauma. Which felt rushed and unsatisfying.

Despite everything, I still really enjoyed this film. Yeah Don't Breathe and Panic Room were better films. But I actually liked the story more to Intruders. Or rather, I liked the concept more. They just botched it.