The latest teen horror, directed by Charles and Thomas Guard, has a bit more patience than such films usually display.
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04/28/09
The Uninvited (2009)
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Reviews Counted:122
Fresh:39
Rotten:83
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: The Uninvited is moody and reasonably involving, but suffers from predictable plot twists.
Theatrical Release:24-04-2009
Synopsis: They say you can never go home again...because you never know when the ghosts of murders past are waiting to shatter the present. Such is the case in THE UNINVITED, an eerie and... [More]
Starring: Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn
Director: Guard Brothers
Reviews for The Uninvited
It is less bloody and less ambiguous than the original.
04/28/09
The Uninvited is workmanlike and has a twist too many, but it's always entertaining and kept afloat by three game leading ladies and competent hands behind the camera.
04/25/09
Unremarkable, unimaginative and unnecessary. Check out the superior original instead.
04/24/09
Top CriticPoor remake of the Korean thriller.
04/24/09
Top CriticAs in the original, the film slyly manipulates the audience’s perspective, and a brilliantly filmed climactic ‘reveal’ marks this British duo as a pair to watch.
04/24/09
Top CriticThe Uninvited is a little too mild-mannered to please any but the most vanilla of horror fans.
04/24/09
Top CriticThey are all just guests at a camp masked ball - poised to unveil themselves in a denouement that somehow manages to be more outlandish - and more comic - than all the bumps and rattles that went before.
04/24/09
Top CriticLike its own Asian source, this movie has a big and elaborately planted twist up its sleeve, but this time around it leaves us feeling tricked and underwhelmed -- horror primly behaving itself as a peekaboo exercise in misdirection.
04/24/09
Top CriticThere should be enough to keep the teen audience the film is clearly targeted at on their toes, although aficionados of the genre will no doubt be bored to death.
04/24/09
Not nearly as creepy as the stylishly shot original, this version trades eerie atmosphere for clunky physical effects.
04/24/09
Suffice it to say that I enjoyed the twist, which isn't original but is entertainingly outrageous.
04/24/09
The trouble is a twist ending that even a brain-dead centipede will see coming a long way off.
04/24/09
The pace plods, the acting is unconvincing and there are no goose bump moments.
04/24/09
Its most intriguing quality is that its final five minutes are so much more interesting than anything that goes before.
04/24/09
Yikes, or rather, yawn. Hokum factor – 10.
04/24/09
The Uninvited is decently shot and acted but has a silly ending that negates most of what has gone before.
04/24/09
A Tale of Two Sisters creates a strong atmosphere of mystery, but never quite manages to fool us with all of the red herrings along the way.
04/24/09
Kim Jee-woon's creepy, ambiguous South Korean chiller A Tale of Sisters gets a straightforward and suspense-free Hollywood makeover here.
04/24/09
Beautifully shot, superbly acted and frequently creepy horror flick, though it's slightly spoiled by making one of its key twists too obvious early on.
04/23/09
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