 Adam Tyner of DVD Talk awarded four and a half out of five stars and wrote that "Intruder" "easily ranks up there as one of the best slashers I've ever seen".DVD Verdict referred to it as "a very cool film" and said, "While it includes all the genre tropes, it presents them in a way that feels fresher and more creative than many of the countless other maniac-on-the-loose films that the decade produced".