The short was a slasher story called Night Crew, and featured a more Halloween-inspired killer. It was also something of a remake of an earlier Super-8 short film by Spiegel. The film was partially based around Spiegel's experience working at the real Walnut Lake Market in Michigan. Intruder marked the feature directorial debut of Scott Spiegel. Bill suddenly opens his eyes as Jennifer screams, leaving all of their fates unknown. The policemen ignore their protests and arrest them. The severely injured Bill claims that Jennifer and Craig are responsible for the attack. When the police arrive, one of the policemen finds the carnage in the store. He topples the phone booth over and traps her, but Craig appears and brutally damages him with a meat cleaver. She heads to a phone booth to call the police, but Bill reappears and starts to smash the booth to get at her. Bill grabs her legs and pulls Jennifer under the car, but she stabs him with a knife. Bill appears and bludgeons Craig while Jennifer flees.Ĭrawling out the bathroom window, she tries to escape in her car but finds Linda's body inside. Craig tells Jennifer he saw Bill killing Linda, and that he climbed into the building through the bathroom window to save her. Bill re-enters the building and stalks Jennifer again. A delivery man appears outside, but Bill kills him before Jennifer can get his attention. Bill attacks Jennifer and chases her around the locked building. Bill tells her that he couldn't let his partner sell the store, so he killed him and got carried away killing everyone. Jennifer notices Bill's hands are covered in blood and realizes that he is the killer. Claiming that Craig attacked him outside the store, he proceeds to call the police. Craig grabs her, but she beats him with a meat hook.īill then staggers in. Hearing someone at the door, she tries to draw their attention, but the person has left by the time she gets there. Terrified, she is attacked by the killer but manages to escape back to the shop floor. Noticing that everyone seems to have vanished, Jennifer investigates and discovers several bodies and body parts in the storerooms. He finds Craig watching Jennifer through the bathroom window and is rendered unconscious.īack in the store, the killer begins to brutally murder the employees and scatters their severed body parts around in the store. Bill spots someone trying to enter through the back door and goes outside to investigate. The police arrive but do little to help and just tell the group to be careful.Īfter finishing her shift, Linda is stabbed by an unseen assailant. Craig makes telephone calls to the store, upsetting Jennifer. The employees are assigned to mark down all the stock in preparation for the close. The owners gather the night crew to announce that they are selling the store and the staff will soon lose their jobs. He is ejected from the building and disappears into the night. When they find Craig, there is another scuffle.
The night crew set out to track him down while Jennifer calls the police. Co-owner Bill shows up and a fight ensues. Worried about her friend, Linda presses her panic button. Craig - the ex-boyfriend of cashier Jennifer - appears and the two quarrel. A supermarket closes and the workers begin restocking the shelves for the next day.