The more clever turns retained from the first film end up playing as gimmicky.
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02/06/09
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
Elizabeth Banks does commendable work as the movie's boogie woman.
02/06/09
The sex-with-daddy business serves as an underpinning to Anna's fundamental trauma.
02/06/09
All it has to distinguish itself from all the other J-Horror and K-Horror remakes and knock-offs is a surprisingly effective against-type starring role and a surpassingly horrid ending.
02/05/09
Aside from what's been stolen, the movie is standard stuff...
02/05/09
The Uninvited may strike even viewers who don’t know the original as disarmingly familiar.
02/04/09
I guess the titles The Uninspired and The Uninvolving were considered too honest.
02/03/09
It's hard to be scary when you look like Elizabeth Banks unless you're being chased by a mad killer wielding the age of 40.
02/03/09
A watered-down remake, but David Straithairn is an unintentional riot, looking more lost than most fathers of teen girls.
02/02/09
The Uninvited rattles doorknobs and creaks floorboards but can't quite drown out the louder rattling of its shaky script.
02/02/09
...like most English language remakes of Asian horror subtlety takes a back seat to bludgeoning.
02/01/09
[It}...in a very heavy-handed way tries to make you believe something is happening when it isn't. The twist at the end is a big non-surprise.
02/01/09
The ending annoyed me so much that it nearly erased my memory of anything worthwhile earlier in the film.
02/01/09
American remake of Korean horror film is violent but dull.
01/31/09
stumbles awkwardly into laughs when it should be creeping out its audience with more than a dinner menu
01/31/09
The Uninvited isn't bad. Worse, it's bland.
01/31/09
has more in common with David S. Goyer's stinker The Unborn that we saw several weeks ago. If only it had been shot in 3D, then we might have had a gimmick to enjoy
01/31/09
If only The Uninvited had a more intelligent screenplay with smarter characters, more real scares and less reliance on cheap gimmickry as a means of entertainment, it wouldn't feel so vapid, illogical and underwhelming.
01/30/09
The Uninvited is that too-seldom-seen thing: a traditional psycho-horror movie made with smarts and style, which arrives at a creepy conclusion with its honor intact.
01/30/09
Twist endings are supposed to make an iota of sense. Tell that to the folks responsible for The Uninvited
01/30/09
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