when i type savage intruder into the imdb search engine one of the option it come up with be savage garden represent international video collection represent the story so far ( 1999 ) and the only reason i mention this be because i be 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 want to say that . anyway and savage intruder start with a bizarre montage of what look like mgm musical and premiere footage and a few spinning portrait which have no meaning whatsoever in the long run . it late 60 hollywood and amid the glitz and glamour a serial killer be at work select age actress and kill them and dismember their body . a young man name vic valance ( david garfield a john david garfield ) hop off a tour bus look for employment when it stop at the house of a now retired actress and katharine parker ( miriam hopkins ) who be one of the big star of the motion picture but now live in a big house with an elderly housekeeper name mildred ( florence lake ) and a personal secretary leslie blair ( gale sondergaard ) and a young maid name geta ( virginia wing ) . katharine have recently break her foot and need a personal assistant and give vic the job . slowly vic charm his way into katharine affection and more importantly her large wallet . vic start to turn katharine against the other employee and but vic isn not what he seem . vic be a drug addict loon who get greta pregnant while still have sex with katharine . greta threaten to tell katharine and spoil vic devious plan but she have a close encounter with an axe and no one in the house be safe a vic brings drug and sex and rock n roll party and gardening to the parker mansion while his sinister plan start to become more and more apparent . write and produce and direct by donald wolfe i think savage intruder be a bit of a mess but a mildly entertaining one at the same time . the script be all over the place and it can not really decide what it want to be and savage intruder suffers from an identity crisis . the film start with the discovery of a severed head and limb and straight after another woman ( dorothy kingston ) be kill by a mysterious unidentified figure but then it completely ditch the slasher film element that it have just build up never go back to them . savage intruder then become a sort of feel good film a vic befriends katharine and show her how to enjoy life again and have an implied sexual relationship with her and it actually disgust to think about a she old enough to be his grandmother . katharine stops live the life of a recluse and give up the alcohol a vic appear to make her happy a they go to party together and hold banquet for katharine friend like she use too . this part of savage intruder wouldn not look out of place in a disney film . every so often the tedium of the feel good stuff be interrupt by vic shoot up and have silly hallucination about his mother ( sybelle guardino ) and chop her hand off with an axe and he have sex with great at one point as well . then and after greta have be murder and savage intruder become a bizarre horror film a vic be reveal for the loony that he be . savage intruder just doesn not flow properly a a film in my opinion a it mix various genre with little success . similarly the murder mystery element do not work and be frankly a bit of a puzzle and why go to great length to conceal the killer identity during the murder scene but then make it perfectly clear who be commit them throughout the rest of the film anyway . vic a 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 victim but with katharine try to con her . what make her so different . if it be because she have money why not go after her to start with . so many question and so few answer . some of the 60 dialogue be pretty funny to listen to these day like when vic offer greta a painkiller and in reality hard drug and and greta say what do i need a painkiller for . and vic helpfully reply because your a pain wow this guy know how to charm the lady . or when katharine suggest that vic do some gardening and ask do you have green finger . he reply no and but i be good at grass . there isn not much gore in savage intruder and some sever limb and a couple of decapitated head . there be also a fairly impressive shot when someone have their hand cut off with an axe which be probably why it repeat three or four time . the silly look drug hallucination scene need to be see to be believe . technically savage intruder be ok and the location filming in the grandiose mansion and hollywood hill probably give it a well look than it deserve and the acting be average a be the rest of the production . overall i would say savage intruder feel like it try to be a murder mystery that unfortunately give the killer away and a a result just doesn not work . it a mildly entertain one time watch at best and a complete mess of a film at bad and you decide which .