The Uninvited is a mess of styles and stolen ideas, including a plot twist that would make M. Night Shyamalan roll his eyes and dialogue straight from a CW scene generator.
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01/30/09
The Uninvited (2009)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:9
Rotten:12
Average Rating:4.7/10
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
Top CriticIn truth it's just a gimmicky thriller that doesn't play fair with the audience.
01/30/09
Top CriticCheap thrills and a gimmicky twist at the climax keep The Uninvited in the realm of the subpar horror movie.
01/30/09
Top CriticWhat can I tell you about The Uninvited that you haven't already heard about every other instantly forgettable horror flick?
01/30/09
Top CriticThe story line is more crafted than it at first appears, but a big finish doesn't always make up for everything that came before. Until then, The Uninvited is basically 80 minutes of things jumping out and making loud noises.
01/30/09
Top CriticAlthough the movie's best moments are pilfered, at least the Guards know whom to steal from (I'd bet The Shining is still in their DVD player). True, there's nothing new here for veteran horror fans.
01/30/09
Top CriticA teenager's resistance to her father's new girlfriend provides the emotional underpinnings for The Uninvited, a spooky, if narcotic, psychological thriller adapted from a 2003 K-horror suspenser.
01/30/09
Top CriticA horror-thriller that's neither horrifying nor thrilling.
01/30/09
Top CriticThe Uninvited won't make anyone forget The Shining, but it's a nice throwback to the days when scary movies featured pretty good actors, a plot that holds together and a couple of creepy-looking ghost kids.
01/30/09
Top CriticThe premise is seaworthy, but the execution flounders.
01/30/09
Top CriticThough not in the top tier of psychological horror flicks, The Uninvited is well-paced and offers enough jolts and twists to keep an audience sufficiently on the edge of their seats to offset the price of admission.
01/30/09
Top CriticThe 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.
01/30/09
Top CriticThere'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
Top CriticIt rummages around in familiar domestic genres looking for a reason to exist.
01/30/09
Top CriticExperienced horror fans will probably stay one step ahead of the game, but it's still a nice ride.
01/29/09
Top CriticWeak even by the standard of uninspired recent Asian-horror remakes.
01/29/09
Top CriticThe movie's source material invited a much more thoughtful interpretation.
01/29/09
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
Top CriticThe Uninvited is a flawed production, but gratifying in the way it delivers.
01/29/09
Top CriticWhen a movie like this is done well, it's uncommon. The Uninvited is done well.
01/29/09
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May 25, 2009:
An occult home invasion horror thriller serving up a suspicious aspiring stepmom, extra bloody beef for dinner, and an oversized dildo named Mister Chubby. And victims fleshed out enough, so that we care about them when they squirm. 
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February 08, 2009:
An occult home invasion horror thriller serving up a suspicious aspiring stepmom, extra bloody beef for dinner, and an oversized dildo named Mister Chubby. And victims fleshed out enough, so that we care about them when they squirm.
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January 29, 2009:
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