Excellent but underrated film

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I thought John C. McGinley was the worst part of this movie! Not sure who did this casting job, but it was horrible. I read the book before watching the movie, which always ruins the movie! Ha, ha. I pictured Edgler Vess as a strong, muscular, big, confident, even handsome and somewhat charming man. He talks about fitting in to his life, not giving away what he enjoys doing (killing). He's obviously crazy, but he is very controlled. He does not appear outwardly crazy. McGinley comes across as crazy in any environment! He is totally annoying. It's like casting a mosquito in the role of a lion. It's not that I don't like McGinley, but this was not a role that fit him. I'm not a big Dean Koontz fan, but I really liked this book and was looking forward to seeing the movie but the movie did not do it justice! Skip the movie, read the book--you'll enjoy it more.

What on earth were people complaining of the ending about? In the 3 hour made for TV flick INTENSITY, the finale and some details of it deviate from the novel but it doesn't mean it is absent of denouement. It has about the same sensitive and emotional resolve that the book gives to its heroine Chyna Shepherd, portrayed perfectly by Molly Parker. Based on reviews I would have thought that the movie would fade to black pointlessly after the final confrontation. But gladly it doesn't and it nicely pays off and brings to a close all the backstory that is skillfully juxtapoused in between scenes of this thrillful suspenser.There are even some interesting new elements added such as that of the good African American sheriff. And even the old lady. I cracked up during their interaction and the sheriff says, "China? Has this become international already?"Perhaps they use it to fill the gap of more introspective scenes in the book where mental soliloquy can't possibly be translated into cinematic form without being perverse. What makes this better than the common B-Movie thriller that we get a plethora of in Cinemax is the backstory involved of the movie's heroine. Or should we call her super heroine. All of that laid down from the novel of Dean Koontz. Maybe I comment on this positively because of my bias for the author who has given me so much awe and wonderment in fiction, but maybe I do because I am genuinely pleased by the way this was slapped into celluloid.I also notice that the writers manage to slip in the little subliminal reference of why the villain is afraid of the stars or the shining sun. In the novel it was only in prose, but gladly in the film Chyna notices it and sounds off much to the perturbance of the villain, so masterfully portrayed by John McGinley with furious gusto.I can only hope that the many beautiful pieces of literature from Dean Koontz can be adapted in motion picture form as decently as INTENSITY. I hear the same positiveness for SOLE SURVIVOR, which I also hope to bump into later on. Not particularly excited about THE HUSBAND, but as I write this I am anxious for next year's Sam Raimi produced THE TAKING. I can only hope such infidelities and deviations that take place will be inconsequential, just as the liberties taken from the book in INTENSITY are to me.5/5

I thought this movie was awesome! This movie was mostly filmed at my great aunt's old house. It was a very nice house but the driveway is NOT that long believe me I've been there so many times. It is a very big house and it has a lot of acres that had horses and cows on the property. The house was also in the movie Bird on a Wire. I have been to the house since I was about 2 years old. I was 7 when they made this movie. My great aunt had to move out of the house when they were filming the movie. She had to take all of her furniture out of her house. She got paid A lot of money. I have some pictures from the house.

If you can suspend your disbelief at the unreal experiences and miraculously close escapes and repeatedly coincidental circumstances, you cannot relax because this film takes you on a most intense ride that leaves you with knuckles bruised from gripping the edge of your seat. This film is non-stop, heart-stopping close shave after close shave, and if you are on heart medication, STAY AWAY FROM IT. John C. McGinley plays this part so perfectly he should be enshrined for it. Only Jack Nicholson plays a crazy man better. I stayed up late to watch this movie to the end, and I am extremely disappointed that it cannot be bought anywhere. If anyone knows where it can be purchased?