Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

I love me some Bill Paxton. Everyone should love Bill Paxton. He has since passed away but even before that I viewed him as a national treasure. If you can watch Weird Science, Aliens, The Vagrant, Tombstone, Near Dark, Twister, True Lies, A Simple Plan, or Frailty and not be enamored by him in at least one of those films, you need to re-evaluate your life.Paxton plays Graham Krakowski a hardworking lower middle class citizen who purchases a fixer-upper. His new purchase is being intruded upon by a vagrant who proceeds to drive him insane. Graham believes the vagrant is a killer but others refuse to believe him. Is Graham going crazy or is this intrusive old man really a murderer?I had a lot fun watching this slightly unknown gem. It's quirky and fits right in with Paxton's known nuttiness. He turns almost everyone against him as he slowly lets a weird vagrant encroach upon his personal life. Even though he can't afford it, he spends a substantial amount on building a fence around his whole residence, installing alarms and cameras. He becomes extremely paranoid and even dreams about this dirty old vagrant breaking into his house. Maybe he has the right to be paranoid? Give this one a try. Some great low-key humor with some thrills.

Only this year has this combination black comedy / psychological thriller / urban paranoia flick / satire finally gotten a DVD release, thanks to the fine folk at Scream Factory. That would be good news to those who are fans, but for this viewer, who hadn't seen it since it hit VHS, it has to rate as a failure. An interesting failure, for sure, but a failure, none the less. Of course, this is just personal taste speaking, but I didn't find it funny often enough and was a little put off by the over the top, cartoonish performances in the three main roles. Still, it's wacky and offbeat enough to sustain itself for a while, until the final third when it goes downhill.A production of Mel Brooks' company Brooksfilms, this was the final directorial effort for effects veteran Chris Walas, who returned to what he did best afterwards. Bill Paxton stars as Graham Krakowski, a wimpy yuppie who buys a fixer-upper house across the street from a vacant lot. Soon Graham comes to be terrorized by a towering, hideous, disease-ridden bum, played by character actor Marshall Bell of such movies as "Total Recall" and "Starship Troopers". The bum frequently squats in the aforementioned lot, but also lets himself into Grahams' home whenever he likes. Graham eventually wonders if he's letting his own darkest inner thoughts and imagination get the better of him.This probably could have been a bit better had it not resolved itself the way that it does. Walas' direction is adequate, although it may have been nice had he reined in the actors a bit. Michael Ironside scowls his way through the role of a cranky detective; other familiar faces include sexy ladies Mitzi Kapture ('Silk Stockings') and Colleen Camp ("Clue"), Patrika Darbo ("Hatchet"), Marc McClure (Jimmy Olsen from the Christopher Reeve "Superman" series), Teddy Wilson ("Life Stinks"), and Stuart Pankin ("Arachnophobia"). Christopher Youngs' score is a little unusual and amusing. Production design by Michael Bolton is also noteworthy.Even with its faults, this may have the makings of a cult favourite for some tastes.Four out of 10.

This is a movie that in no way takes it self seriously. The plot is farcical, the actors over play there parts and the direction is over done. The result is pure cult. Its a shame that this movie is not available on DVD. Bill Paxton plays a yuppie Graham Krakowski who buys a house and ends up being menaced and framed for murder by a strange and sinister Vagrant played by the always excellent Marshall Bell. Soon people start dieing and all fingers are pointing in Krakowski direction. The movie surfs the fine line between comedy and horror very well. Mainly because the movie doesn't try to fit into any real category, its not exactly horror, its not exactly comedy. it could be called black comedy but I and most people who have seen it would call it, Unique.

There are good movies and there are bad movies, and then there are movies so delightfully skewed that the terms "good" and "bad" cease to apply. The Vagrant is of this last variety.Bill Paxton stars as Graham Krakowski, the epitome of young professionalism, who is buying his first home. On his first day in the new house (although "new" is a misnomer; the kitchen looks as if it was last updated around 1966), he walks in on a vagrant (Marshall Bell) hunched over the kitchen sink. Shortly after, he discovers the vagrant living on the vacant lot across the street. What follows is a paranoiac's nightmare; a hilariously twisted game of cat-and-mouse, with the vagrant testing the limits of Krakowski's sanity. The vagrant does such a good job of driving him crazy that nobody believes Krakowski when he insists the vagrant is out to get him. Especially skeptical is Michael Ironside, playing a dense-as-a-cement-block police lieutenant (with the unlikely name of Ralf Barfuss, no less). When Krakowski calls the police after finding the vagrant in his house eating a sandwich, Barfuss asks (with a sort of gleeful maliciousness), "And what kind of sandwich was this alleged man eating?" When the murders start, nobody listens to Krakowski, who is convinced the vagrant is to blame. Barfuss is dead-set on nailing Krakowski for the murders, and even Graham's best friend questions his sanity. This is the first horror movie I've watched where I was sure everything I was laughing at was actually intended to be funny. I knew I was having fun about 15 minutes into the movie, when the following exchange took place -KRAKOWSKI: Quick, I think he(the vagrant)'s getting ready to urinate!COP 1: Should we call for back-up?COP 2: There's no time!The Vagrant moves along at a pretty good clip, and the story, particularly the second half, plays out like one of the more surreal episodes of Tales from the Crypt. The balance between horror and comedy is a bit uneven, bordering on the ridiculously stupid at times, but still enjoyable. Michael Ironside is great in a rare comedic performance (although a larger role would have been nice); Marshall Bell's vagrant is an over-the-top boogyman who jumps out periodically to scare Bill Paxton; and it's just plain FUN watching Paxton degenerate from an uptight, neurotic yuppie to a scruffy, gun-toting trailer-park manager.B+ if you're a fan of tongue-in-cheek horror-comedy or the main stars;C- (or less) if you're a cinematic snob.