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The Uninvited (1944)

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The Uninvited is one of the rare Hollywood ghost stories that does not cop out with a "logical" ending. In fact, the film has more in common with British ghost tales of the period, in that the characters calmly accept spectral visitations as though they were everyday occurrences. Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister, Pamela (Ruth Hussey), buy a house on the Cornish seacoast, never suspecting that it is a "bad" house, subject to haunting. Before long, Roderick and Pamela are visited

Apr 28, 2009

MCA Universal Home Video

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For modern audiences, the movie is more elegantly creepy than truly scary, but it still charms.

March 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Comment
Newark Star-Ledger
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Decidedly more spooky than scary.

February 15, 2009 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | Comment
MovieMartyr.com

[T]here's some genuinely spooky stuff here, the wailing sobs that wrack the seaside house on the gloomy cliff and all...

October 31, 2005 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | Comment
Flick Filosopher

An impressive, though outdated, old-fashioned ghost story.

January 19, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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Brilliant! One of the greatest of all ghost stories.

May 23, 2004 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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Part ghost story and part who-dunnit mystery, 1944's "The Uninvited" takes the mind into the musty basements and cobwebbed corners of the dark unknown. Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey star as a brother and sister who stumble upon a great, abandoned seaside mansion on the English coast and quickly (or rather impulsively)

November 28, 2011
Mr Awesome
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Wonderfully evocative atmosphere. Gail Russell has the perfect dreamy quality to fit the story.

April 11, 2007
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