The Uninvited is decently shot and acted but has a silly ending that negates most of what has gone before.
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04/24/09
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:Jan 30, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $28,573,173
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
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Reviews for The Uninvited
The pace plods, the acting is unconvincing and there are no goose bump moments.
04/24/09
It rummages around in familiar domestic genres looking for a reason to exist.
01/30/09
Top CriticHorror standbys like mangled corpses and stone-faced children pop up regularly, but sibling directors Charles and Thomas Guard haven't quite nailed the genre's rhythms.
01/29/09
Unremarkable, unimaginative and unnecessary. Check out the superior original instead.
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
The fear isn't psychological; it's merely a creaky wooden house spook show easily left behind at the theatre exit.
01/29/09
stumbles awkwardly into laughs when it should be creeping out its audience with more than a dinner menu
01/31/09
Apart from excellent performances, there is little to recommend The Uninvited, not even great ghoulish effects.
03/20/09
You might jump out of your seat once or twice, but many of the alleged scary scenes in this psychological horror/thriller are so cliched that they'll make you chuckle.
03/27/09
Yikes, or rather, yawn. Hokum factor – 10.
04/24/09
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 may strike even viewers who don’t know the original as disarmingly familiar.
02/04/09
barely delivers a single shiver
01/29/09
A decently constructed genre programmer for much of its running time, The Uninvited just lays its Big Twist on the table, but does nothing to earn it or make it stick.
01/30/09
There's little reason to stay invested in what quickly becomes a grueling 80-minute-long journey into the easily telegraphed and roughly acted.
01/29/09
Not nearly as creepy as the stylishly shot original, this version trades eerie atmosphere for clunky physical effects.
04/24/09
There 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
Twist endings are supposed to make an iota of sense. Tell that to the folks responsible for The Uninvited
01/30/09
Just to set the taste level, the first line in The Uninvited is 'I love you, I have a condom.' Yep, the bar is already lowered.
06/10/09
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