The Film (4/5)

In a picturesque suburban neighbor, a maniacal home invader and rapist cruises the quiet streets, whittling down house after house in search for vulnerable target.  That susceptible victim would be Ellen Anderson, being witnessed kissing her husband goodbye before his stay on an multiple overnight trip.  As the husband backs out of the driveway and vacates the premises, the intruder implements his diabolical scheme, deplorably incognito as a traveling sales man who rings doorbell after doorbell selling his schtick to solicited customers, but as soon as Ellen's door is ajar, the intruders violently bursts his into the Anderson home.  He forces Ellen upstairs, binds her hands, and removes her clothing to pursue theft of the Anderson valuables, but before he leaves, the urge to rape overcomes him and forces himself onto and into Mrs. Anderson as she lays helplessly until her unsuspecting friend, Gail, comes over to check on her. 

Innocent housewife becomes the plaything of a callus deviant.  A bare bones plot  of the 1975 home invasion film entitled "Intrusion" helmed by the beguiled Zebedy Colt ("The Farmer's Daughter") credited by his other pseudo name Arthur Nouveau and written by Nelson Decco.  The singularity of "Intrusion" channels the overall bondage, rape, and immoral qualities and without that simplicity that revolves around various set locations and a slew of performers, the intimacy between the actors and the situation wouldn't have had the same slimy wash feeling about it.  Colt managed to pack an hour's worth of degrading sexual humiliation solely inside the Anderson home with less performers than fingers on a hand.

The most recognizable and more experienced name credited is Kim Pope of "White Slavery in New York" and "Memories with Miss Aggie."  Pope's landing of the wholesome housewife, who questions having intercourse with her husband right on the dining room floor, is a role reversal for the carnal blonde, influenced by the paralyzing and hopelessness of being one's sexual captor.  Michael Dattorre, better known as Michael Gaunt in later works, puts in a terrorizing performance as The Intruder in his first adult film.  Dattorre and Pope's chemistry create the lip-biting tension that circulates an overpowering rape fantasy that role playing men and women alike would enjoy.  However, their scenes were overshadowed by Dattorre and another first timer, a brunette named Lynn Bishop, and while Pope was bound to the bed by all four appendages, Dattorre ravages Bishop, who portrays Ellen Anderson's friend, Gail.  Lynn Bishop is just as striking as Pope, but her little midsection pooch sells a modern woman in a neighborhood.  Deep Throat Part II's Levi Richards is Ellen Anderson's traveling husband with a goodbye sex scene in the dining room that more like calm before the intrusion storm, but sets up Ellen's hesitations of where to lay with her husband, suggesting her puritan notions about sex that makes victimization even more salivating

Like preciously mentioned, "Intrusion" has a simple, black and white exterior and couldn't see the runtime being any longer than it's already short, just over an hour, 67 minutes.  The short runtime easily tells the entire story that ends with a shocking end involving girl-on-girl action and a white handled pocket knife.  That pocket knife becomes an infamous empowering tool for The Intruder and is featured frequently, even with it's own penetrating moment in a closeup shot with, supposedly, Kim Pope's vagina.  "The Intrusion" is quintessential ooze from the controversial filmmaker, Zebedy Colt. 

Audio/Video (2.5/5)

Vinegar Syndrome presents the fully uncut and restored shocker "The Intrusion" onto a region free DVD from the negative elements that were scanned and stored in 2k from 35mm vault material, but exhibited in a full screen 1.33:1 aspect ratio.  The transfer quality has a fair share of grain and some minor damage with a washed color palette, but despite showing age in an unadulterated format in the sense of cropping or enhancements, the overall quality of the transfer of "Intrusion" is palpable.

The Dolby Digital single channel mono track is low-key, just a hair under breath, but that's common with adult films from that era that couldn't produce such range by today's standards.  The overlaying track also whirs with a thin and continues crackling.  Though dialogue track is, for the most of the runtime, intelligible, it has moments of a hiss and pops. 

Extras (2/5)

Extras includes a Michael Gaunt interview, "Becoming the Intruder," that highlights Gaunt's career from being the hard to work with guy in theatrical production companies to walking into a porn audition and getting the job, which would be "The Intrusion" that would spawn a new career path.  The original theatrical trailer is also included.

Overall

Vinegar Syndrome's presentation of Zebedy Colt's gripping, unnerving, and brutal shocker "Intrusion" is not your feel good romp, but speaks to the inner undertones of rape fantasy and lonely housewives with a slight stint into bondage that's pre-"Fifty Shades of Grey" and even though the transfer quality isn't ideal, the subject matter enhances the uncomfortable technical qualities of the film.  What a treat from Vinegar Syndrome to provide an official DVD release that has unearthed more of Colt's unhinged, yet insightfully warped mind, and even though "Intrusion" will have difficulty finding a place in today's revolution of sexual misconduct, not recommending this title would be a true crime.