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The Uninvited is moody and reasonably involving, but suffers from predictable plot twists.
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An effective blend of thriller and horror. May 13, 2009 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An effective blend of thriller and horror.
Roger Moore
As in the original, the film slyly manipulates the audience's perspective, and a brilliantly filmed climactic 'reveal' marks this British duo as a pair to watch. Apr 24, 2009 | Rating: 3/6 | Full Review…
As in the original, the film slyly manipulates the audience's perspective, and a brilliantly filmed climactic 'reveal' marks this British duo as a pair to watch.
Nigel Floyd
The Uninvited is a little too mild-mannered to please any but the most vanilla of horror fans. Apr 24, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The Uninvited is a little too mild-mannered to please any but the most vanilla of horror fans.
Wendy Ide
They are all just guests at a camp masked ball - poised to unveil themselves in a denouement that somehow manages to be more outlandish - and more comic - than all the bumps and rattles that went before. Apr 24, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
They are all just guests at a camp masked ball - poised to unveil themselves in a denouement that somehow manages to be more outlandish - and more comic - than all the bumps and rattles that went before.
Xan Brooks
The Uninvited is decently shot and acted but has a silly ending that negates most of what has gone before. Apr 24, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The Uninvited is decently shot and acted but has a silly ending that negates most of what has gone before.
This is a teenage horror film made with efficiency, as if that was enough. It's as mechanical as a train set and that's what good horror can't be. Mar 27, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
This is a teenage horror film made with efficiency, as if that was enough. It's as mechanical as a train set and that's what good horror can't be.
Paul Byrnes
The only genuinely startling moments come via the deafening sound effects that accompany a large roast hitting the floor and Anna scraping metal hangers along a clothing rack. Feb 15, 2013 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The only genuinely startling moments come via the deafening sound effects that accompany a large roast hitting the floor and Anna scraping metal hangers along a clothing rack.
Steve Newton
It's not original, it's not especially clever and the twist won't make you want to watch it again, but hey - at least it wasn't The Unborn. Sep 29, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's not original, it's not especially clever and the twist won't make you want to watch it again, but hey - at least it wasn't The Unborn.
Ali Gray
The Uninvited may strike even viewers who don't know the original as disarmingly familiar. Apr 20, 2012 | Rating: 2/5
The Uninvited may strike even viewers who don't know the original as disarmingly familiar.
Ben Kenigsberg
This is one of those "gotcha!" movies where nothing you see can be believed. Apr 4, 2011 | Rating: 0.5/5 | Full Review…
This is one of those "gotcha!" movies where nothing you see can be believed.
Dave White
Take a 'concept', strip it bare of all layers of meaning, remake it with added genre cliches and scantily clad American teens in order to a 'wider audience'. Voila. Mar 13, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Take a 'concept', strip it bare of all layers of meaning, remake it with added genre cliches and scantily clad American teens in order to a 'wider audience'. Voila.
Mike Edwards
As far as PG-13 Americanizations of Asian shockers go, it's about 70 percent passable Aug 26, 2009 | Full Review…
As far as PG-13 Americanizations of Asian shockers go, it's about 70 percent passable
Fernando F. Croce
A rare case of American remake that I find better than the original film, since the tension is carried out much more carefully here and with a more concise plot that wisely avoids the many twists in Kim Ji-Woon's story and presents a more compelling reason to leave us scared.
Super Reviewer
Wastes two very good performers, Elizabeth Banks and David Strathairn, in a murky silly wannabe thriller.
The Uninvited relies too heavily on cheesy dialogue, and jump scares to really be that frightening. It's predictable and unimaginative plot are silly, but the actors really do try their best with the material they are given. But alas, they can't save this mess. My friends and I saw the ending coming half-way through the film. This was an uninvited entry into the horror movie genre.
What hurts more to watch: a bad movie, or a below-average adaptation of a great movie? The Uninvited is a cliched piece of PG-13 horror shit from start to finish, with the faintest glimmers of Tale of Two Sisters' strengths peppered in between it all. Perhaps the film's only inspired choice was the casting of Emily Browning, who seems to be making her Hollywood bread and butter by playing heroines of total absence. As a broken, withdrawn, vacant shell of a girl, she excels - I'm not sure how much Browning herself is actually contributing to her portrayal, or if we are simply seeing a very boring pretty girl imrpinted on celluloid, but she works out half-decently here. The ending is a mess, especially by the standards of its predecessor's far more intelligent and bitter conclusion, and it more or less wastes the rest of its strong cast. David Straithairn is a phantom; Elizabeth Banks, despite a thankless role and some unforgivably clumsy writing, actually pulls off a performance of some ambiguity here. Surprising work, but only within the frame of a thoroughly awful, unsurprising mess of a movie.
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