The plot borrows as freely from Hitchcock and Henry James as from the Bard of Avon, and doesn't make scrupulous sense, though I'd have to see the film again, which I won't do, to make sure it doesn't cheat.
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01/30/09
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
Parental Content Review
01/30/09
A truly frightening experience with a 100% certified shocker of an ending.
01/30/09
a less than exciting Hollywood debut for co-directors... "The Guard Brothers." The Coens and the Wachowskis do not have to start worrying yet.
01/30/09
. . .one of those movies that opens in January, makes a few quick bucks from kids who will see virtually any PG-13 horror item that comes along and is then completely forgotten by February.
01/30/09
A generic horror programmer somewhat enlivened by two strong lead performances and a surprising, if preposterous, plot twist.
01/30/09
There's a substantial twist in The Uninvited, a pretty fair and reasonably scary remake of South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon's thriller A Tale of Two Sisters.
01/30/09
[E]ven when it's not telegraphing its secrets, it kinda is, anyway, in its helplessness to hide that it's cheating...
01/30/09
Shockingly, the movie was a half-way decent horror flick with a great ending you will not see coming. I wouldn't waste your money in the theatres but it's a great rental.
01/30/09
It rummages around in familiar domestic genres looking for a reason to exist.
01/30/09
Top CriticSquanders 70 strong minutes with a pointless gotcha that I don't think anyone will much appreciate.
01/30/09
Once the pieces became clear that directors Charles & Thomas Guard were content on being M. Night Shyamalan instead of Ji-Woon Kim, it's enough to make any purist feeling tainted.
01/29/09
The material and execution are weak, but it is trying very hard.
01/29/09
No match for the original...But it stands on its own as a decent popcorn movie...
01/29/09
Should a horror film be able to redeem its own idiocy with a switcheroo ending?
01/29/09
Taken on its own, The Uninvited has a good deal to recommend it.
01/29/09
Don't be deceived by the trailer as "The Uninvited" has so much more the offer the victim, I mean viewer.
01/29/09
Even in retrospect it's not a great film, but it's better than the first 80 minutes suggested it was going to be.
01/29/09
Too derivative and laden with plot twists to be effective, it's hard to enjoy this cluttered remake knowing how much better the original movie is.
01/29/09
barely delivers a single shiver
01/29/09
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