The Uninvited works better as a Maine travel guide than a horror movie.
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01/29/09
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
Experienced horror fans will probably stay one step ahead of the game, but it's still a nice ride.
01/29/09
The Uninvited goes through its motions efficiently, if soullessly.
01/29/09
Arriving at least two years after the Asian-horror-remake craze subsided, The Uninvited delivers a spooky-stepmom saga free of invention.
01/29/09
Weak even by the standard of uninspired recent Asian-horror remakes.
01/29/09
Top CriticThis mysterious supernatural thriller also has a lame plot twist at the end, a contrivance that's pretty easy to figure out if you're paying attention.
01/29/09
The movie's source material invited a much more thoughtful interpretation.
01/29/09
Top CriticIt offers plenty of mood, a few good scares and enough twists to keep not just horror fans but mainstream audiences hooked.
01/29/09
The film does not always make alterations for the better—A Tale of Two Sisters left more to ponder and chew on—but it does form a cohesive narrative that seems as if actual care was paid to designing it.
01/29/09
Horror 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
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
Unlike the rest of the Class of '09 thus far, The Uninvited marches to an off-beat, and thank goodness for small favors.
01/29/09
The Uninvited is an occasionally spooky, often silly, made-you-jump suspense film with a conclusion that's not quite whack enough to satisfy.
01/29/09
The Uninvited packs in some impressive imagery that will keep you engaged, even while the dialogue suggests you'd be better off sleeping.
01/29/09
An uninteresting, uninspired collection of unadjectives.
01/29/09
The 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
Top CriticThe fear isn't psychological; it's merely a creaky wooden house spook show easily left behind at the theatre exit.
01/29/09
We’ve seen it all before, but that doesn’t diminish the accomplishment of first-time directors (and brothers) Charles and Thomas Guard, who clearly believe that a creaking door is scarier than a gouged-out eyeball.
01/29/09
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.
01/28/09
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