Now here's an obscurity that might be new to a few of you horror fans. 'Dark Intruder' is a strange little TV movie starring Leslie Nielsen of all people, but it plays out like some late night anthology episode and runs for only an hour. Even so, this chilling and wonderfully atmospheric, fog-drenched movie has all the hallmarks of a mini-classic and is set in 1890 amid a series of bizarre murders in which victims are accosted by a peculiar cloaked being which leaves a weird statue by each victim. It's not long however before the police, and a supernatural expert are on the trail of the marauder which some believe to be some type of Sumerian demon.
'Dark Intruder' is filmed in black and white and as an incredibly misty atmosphere and reasonably intricate plot that reminds one of an H.P. Lovecraft story. We meet a priest who claims that the demon in question will commit seven murders, in accordance to the seven spokes of a wheel which can be found in an old shop, and comes accompanied by a hideous demonic figure. It's a shame that the series to which 'Dark Intruder' was to be a pilot for failed to materialise, because this short movie is far more atmospheric that films of far greater budget. Shadowy to say the least, 'Dark Intruder' is a ominous mix of the Jack the Ripper slayings and
'Trilogy of Terror.' A fantastic precursor to those 1970s TV movie chillers.
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