Taglines: The quietest towns hide the darkest secrets.
Intrusion Movie Storyline. Freida Pinto plays a young woman named Meera who moves into a new, remote home designed by her architect husband, Henry (played by Logan Marshall-Green). Not long after the couple moves in, their home gets broken into, leaving Meera traumatized and increasingly suspicious of everyone around her.
director Adam Salky provided some additional context for key scenes in the trailer. First, Salky wanted to make sure viewers know that Pinto’s character, Meera, is a breast cancer survivor when we meet her. “In the wake of her remission, Meera and Henry moved to a small town away from Boston to reconnect and start this new chapter in life where she’s healthy,” Salky said. “When their house gets broken into twice in so many days, it makes Meera start to question why they moved to this place, and who the people around her really are. The movie is about the terrifying unknowability of people.”
Salky was wary of spoilers but did delve into a few details from the trailer. For instance, he said that the impressive-looking modern house you see—where most of the film was shot on location around Albuquerque, New Mexico area, at the height of the pandemic lockdown during Fall 2020—was like “finding a needle in a haystack. That house is not the architectural style of Albuquerque, but a fortuitous thing happened: The cinematographer was at the grip rental house, and he asked the owner of the house if he knew of any modern homes in the area. And he said, ‘Oh, yeah, my best friend owns this house!’”
The director was more tight-lipped when it came to Marshall-Green’s character, Henry, who was acting more than a little suspicious in this first-look trailer. “Henry was by Meera’s side all throughout her illness, and he was traumatized by it as well. I mean, he almost lost her, so the disruption that happens in their life in this small town is something he hopes that they can move beyond,” Salky hedged. But later, he dropped a bigger hint about Meera’s shady spouse: “Meera realizes that a lot of the people around her have secrets. There’s a blind spot with the person you share a bed with that can be even scarier than cancer.”
We know, at least, that there’s a mystery plotline starring Law and Order‘s Robert John Burke as the lead detective on the case of the break-ins, which he believes may be connected to a missing person case in town. Meanwhile, local actor Clint Obenchain stars as a person of interest in the case—aka that man with the heavy southern accent you see harassing Pinto for “snooping around” in the trailer.
And what about that trailer moment where someone who looks an awful lot like Pinto falls from a two-story balcony? “I don’t know if I’m allowed to say,” Salky said with a laugh. “All I can say is that once the house is broken into, Meera starts to investigate everyone in her life to figure out why this actually happened. That’s going to lead to a pretty shocking act of violence. And it puts both Meera and Henry in extreme danger.”
For those worried that the trailer gave away too much of the movie, Salky assures viewers it’s “just the tip of the iceberg of the secrets that are revealed in this film. People are going to be, I think shocked, at where the story goes and what Meera ultimately learns when she starts unraveling the secrets of her relationship.”
Intrusion (2021)
Directed by: Adam Salky
Starring: Freida Pinto, Logan Marshall-Green, Sarah Minnich, Robert John Burke, Clint Obenchain, Yvette Fazio-Delaney, Mark Sivertsen, Yvette Fazio-Delaney, Megan Elisabeth Kelly, Josh Horton
Screenplay by: Chris Sparling
Production Design by: Matt Hyland, Brandon Tonner-Connolly
Cinematography by: Eric Lin
Film Editing by: Ben Baudhuin
Costume Design by: Natalie O’Brien
Set Decoration by: Kevin Pierce
Music by: Alex Heffes
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Netflix
Release Date: September 22, 2021
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