Not so much a collection of tropes as one big trope, The Intruder's rigid predictability is actually part of its charm.
Remember Unlawful Entry from 1992? Well this is that movie (along with several others) plus a few zeitgheisty tweaks.
Race is seemingly not an issue here, yet as in Jordan Peele's Us, it kind of is, as the film's title can refer to either the original owner — sporting a red baseball cap in one scene — or the new one: a mixed-race branding guru from San Francisco who brings a particularly ghastly modernist sensibility to home improvement in the Napa Valley. He has a wife who is dangerously sympathetic towards his potential nemesis and a best friend who is one of those obvious dead-men-walking from the moment he is introduced.
And as Ray Liotta did back in '92, so too does Dennis Quaid here with a trope-transcending central performance.
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