'Intruder' (1989)- Scott Spiegel.

Many years before the dismal drudgery of 'Hostel', independent horror hero, Scott Spiegel penned the landmark horror comedy 'Evil Dead 2', the hyperbolically gruesome, hugely influential gag-infested masterpiece that remains unrivalled to this very day. Clearly no mere mortal, since, Spiegel also scripted, and excitingly directed 'Intruder', arguably one of the 80s most audaciously grisly, satisfyingly splattery, face-flayingly fabulous hack-fests! In this shop-full of mad-hattery supermarket it's not only the prices that are getting slashed!

During one especially nightmarish night-shift the lolly gagging staff grimly find themselves being surreptitiously stalked by an especially demented, power tool savvy, shadow-slinking psycho! The amiable night crew are crudely reduced from idly stacking shelves to sickly stacked halves of diabolically dissected meat! This increasingly demented, murderously dissatisfied customer taking his midnight chopping list just a little too literally! Proving in this insane instance that the customer is always right...out of his fucking mind!!!

Seen today, Scott Spiegel's seriously spleen-spirited slasher is quite demonstratively a cut above the chest, certainly no bargain-basement, thrift-store slasher, but a righteously meaty, chunk-blowingly bellicose Grindhouse horror classic that makes Friday the 13^th and 'Halloween' look positively anaemic. With its excruciating array of explicit KNB practical FX, Spiegel's singularly savage slasher is a gloriously gooey, next level 80s gore-gasm! Intruder's gleefully grotesque highlights include explicit eyeball spiking, gratuitous gut slashing, brutal chin goring, hellacious head-sawing, squirrelly skull squashing and sanguineous skin-flaying! If all that squirm-inducing savagery wasn't enough, the affable cast includes iconic 'Evil Dead' alumni Sam Raimi, brother Ted 'eternal victim' Raimi, 'groovy' Bruce Campbell and, Danny Hicks all energized with a killer synth score by maestro, Basil Poledouris!