Director: Deon Taylor
A dream house on paper turns into a slow-burning source of dread in this 2025 drama, once the family who bought it realizes the previous owner has no intention of letting go.
What is The Intruder about?
A young couple relocates to a secluded property outside the city, drawn by the size of the land and the quiet of the surrounding woods. The seller, a widower who built the house himself, agrees to the sale but keeps returning to tend the grounds, mow the lawn, and linger near the property line. What begins as awkward friendliness curdles into something more unsettling as boundaries blur between the new owners' private life and the old owner's sense of ownership over a place he refuses to fully leave behind. The film tracks that tension as it builds inside the household, rather than resolving it in a single confrontation.
Cast & crew
Dennis Quaid anchors the film as the departed seller whose warmth never quite reads as harmless, playing against Michael Ealy and Meagan Good as the couple trying to settle into a home that no longer feels entirely their own. Joseph Sikora rounds out the supporting circle, with Lili Sepe, Debs Howard, Alvina August, and Lee Shorten filling out the neighborhood and workplace scenes around them.
Context & significance
Director Deon Taylor builds the film around a familiar real-estate anxiety, stretching an ordinary transaction into a study of how much control a seller can quietly retain over a property after the papers are signed. The drama keeps its scale intimate, favoring a handful of locations over a sprawling cast.
Where & how to watch
The film is available on K-Time with a free account login, and the site's Farsi-language menus and search make it simple for Persian-speaking households to find alongside other English-language dramas in the catalog.