when i typed savage intruder into the imdb search engine one of the options it came up with was savage garden represent international video collection represent the story so far (1999) and the only reason i mention this is because i am a huge savage garden fan and you should do yourself a favour and check some of their music out like affirmation or to the moon and back rather than bother with this average pot boiler and sorry i just wanted to say that. anyway and savage intruder starts with a bizarre montage of what looks like mgm musical and premiere footage and a few spinning portraits which have no meaning whatsoever in the long run. it late 60 hollywood and amid the glitz and glamour a serial killer is at work selecting ageing actresses and killing them and dismembering their bodies. a young man named vic valance (david garfield as john david garfield) hops off a tour bus looking for employment when it stops at the house of a now retired actress and katharine parker (miriam hopkins) who was one of the biggest stars of the motion picture but now lives in a big house with an elderly housekeeper named mildred (florence lake) and a personal secretary leslie blair (gale sondergaard) and a young maid named geta (virginia wing). katharine has recently broken her foot and needs a personal assistant and gives vic the job. slowly vic charms his way into katharine affections and more importantly her large wallet. vic starts to turn katharine against the other employees and but vic isn not what he seems. vic is a drug addicted loon who gets greta pregnant while still having sex with katharine. greta threatens to tell katharine and spoil vic devious plans but she has a close encounter with an axe and no one in the house is safe as vic brings drugs and sex and rock n roll party  and gardening to the parker mansion while his sinister plan starts to become more and more apparent. written and produced and directed by donald wolfe i thought savage intruder was a bit of a mess but a mildly entertaining one at the same time. the script is all over the place and it can not really decide what it wants to be and savage intruder suffers from an identity crisis. the film starts with the discovery of a severed head and limbs and straight after another woman (dorothy kingston) is killed by a mysterious unidentified figure but then it completely ditches the slasher film elements that it has just built up never going back to them. savage intruder then becomes a sort of feel good film as vic befriends katharine and shows her how to enjoy life again and having an implied sexual relationship with her and it actually disgusting to think about as she old enough to be his grandmother. katharine stops living the life of a recluse and gives up the alcohol as vic appears to make her happy as they go to party together and hold banquets for katharine friend like she used too. this part of savage intruder do not look out of place in a disney film. every so often the tedium of the feel good stuff is interrupted by vic shooting up and having silly hallucinations about his mother (sybelle guardino) and chopping her hand off with an axe and he has sex with great at one point as well. then and after greta has been murdered and savage intruder becomes a bizarre horror film as vic is revealed for the loony that he is. savage intruder just doesn not flow properly as a film in my opinion as it mixes various genres with little success. similarly the murder mystery elements do not work and are frankly a bit of a puzzle and why go to great lengths to conceal the killers identity during the murder scenes but then make it perfectly clear who is committing them throughout the rest of the film anyway. vic as a character do not work for me either and one moment he a cool and calm and clever and devious con man and then next he a stark raving loony. why kill all his other victims but with katharine try to con her. what makes her so different. if it is because she has money why not go after her to start with. so many questions and so few answers. some of the 60 dialogue is pretty funny to listen to these days like when vic offers greta a painkiller and in reality hard drugs and  and greta says what do i need a painkiller for. and vic helpfully replies because your a pain wow this guy knows how to charm the ladies. or when katharine suggests that vic do some gardening and ask do you have green fingers. he replies no and but i am good at grass. there isn not much gore in savage intruder and some severed limbs and a couple of decapitated heads. there is also a fairly impressive shot when someone has their hand cut off with an axe which is probably why it repeated three or four times. the silly looking drug hallucination scenes need to be seen to be believed. technically savage intruder is ok and the location filming in the grandiose mansion and hollywood hills probably give it a better look than it deserves and the acting is average as is the rest of the production. overall i would say savage intruder feels like it tries to be a murder mystery that unfortunately gives the killer away and as a result just doesn not work. it a mildly entertaining one time watch at best and a complete mess of a film at worse and you decide which. 
when i typed savage intruder into the imdb search engine one of the options it came up with was savage garden represent international video collection represent the story so far (1999) and the only reason i mention this is because i am a huge savage garden fan and you should do yourself a favour and check some of their music out like affirmation or to the moon and back rather than bother with this average pot boiler and sorry i just wanted to say that. anyway and savage intruder starts with a bizarre montage of what looks like mgm musical and premiere footage and a few spinning portraits which have no meaning whatsoever in the long run. it late 60 hollywood and amid the glitz and glamour a serial killer is at work selecting ageing actresses and killing them and dismembering their bodies. a young man named vic valance (david garfield as john david garfield) hops off a tour bus looking for employment when it stops at the house of a now retired actress and katharine parker (miriam hopkins) who was one of the biggest stars of the motion picture but now lives in a big house with an elderly housekeeper named mildred (florence lake) and a personal secretary leslie blair (gale sondergaard) and a young maid named geta (virginia wing). katharine has recently broken her foot and needs a personal assistant and gives vic the job. slowly vic charms his way into katharine affections and more importantly her large wallet. vic starts to turn katharine against the other employees and but vic isn not what he seems. vic is a drug addicted loon who gets greta pregnant while still having sex with katharine. greta threatens to tell katharine and spoil vic devious plans but she has a close encounter with an axe and no one in the house is safe as vic brings drugs and sex and rock n roll party  and gardening to the parker mansion while his sinister plan starts to become more and more apparent. written and produced and directed by donald wolfe i thought savage intruder was a bit of a mess but a mildly entertaining one at the same time. the script is all over the place and it can not really decide what it wants to be and savage intruder suffers from an identity crisis. the film starts with the discovery of a severed head and limbs and straight after another woman (dorothy kingston) is killed by a mysterious unidentified figure but then it completely ditches the slasher film elements that it has just built up never going back to them. savage intruder then becomes a sort of feel good film as vic befriends katharine and shows her how to enjoy life again and having an implied sexual relationship with her and it actually disgusting to think about as she old enough to be his grandmother. katharine stops living the life of a recluse and gives up the alcohol as vic appears to make her happy as they go to party together and hold banquets for katharine friend like she used too. this part of savage intruder do not look out of place in a disney film. every so often the tedium of the feel good stuff is interrupted by vic shooting up and having silly hallucinations about his mother (sybelle guardino) and chopping her hand off with an axe and he has sex with great at one point as well. then and after greta has been murdered and savage intruder becomes a bizarre horror film as vic is revealed for the loony that he is. savage intruder just doesn not flow properly as a film in my opinion as it mixes various genres with little success. similarly the murder mystery elements do not work and are frankly a bit of a puzzle and why go to great lengths to conceal the killers identity during the murder scenes but then make it perfectly clear who is committing them throughout the rest of the film anyway. vic as a character do not work for me either and one moment he a cool and calm and clever and devious con man and then next he a stark raving loony. why kill all his other victims but with katharine try to con her. what makes her so different. if it is because she has money why not go after her to start with. so many questions and so few answers. some of the 60 dialogue is pretty funny to listen to these days like when vic offers greta a painkiller and in reality hard drugs and  and greta says what do i need a painkiller for. and vic helpfully replies because your a pain wow this guy knows how to charm the ladies. or when katharine suggests that vic do some gardening and ask do you have green fingers. he replies no and but i am good at grass. there isn not much gore in savage intruder and some severed limbs and a couple of decapitated heads. there is also a fairly impressive shot when someone has their hand cut off with an axe which is probably why it repeated three or four times. the silly looking drug hallucination scenes need to be seen to be believed. technically savage intruder is ok and the location filming in the grandiose mansion and hollywood hills probably give it a better look than it deserves and the acting is average as is the rest of the production. overall i would say savage intruder feels like it tries to be a murder mystery that unfortunately gives the killer away and as a result just doesn not work. it a mildly entertaining one time watch at best and a complete mess of a film at worse and you decide which. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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