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DVD Review: The Uninvited [Blu-ray]: Kevin McNulty, David Strathairn, Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel, Jesse Moss, Maya Massar, Dan Landin, Christopher Young, Charles Guard, Thomas Guard, David Rosenbloom, Christian Wagner, Jim Page: Movies & TV

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The china-doll features of Emily Browning (A Series of Unfortunate Events) are the eerie center of The Uninvited, an American remake of the wildly popular Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters. Browning stars as Anna, a young girl being released from a mental hospital following the harrowing death of her mother. But when she returns home, she discovers her father (David Strathairn) has fallen under the sexual spell of her mother’s former nurse, Rachael (Elizabeth Banks, Zack and Miri Make a Porno), despite the open hostility of Anna’s sister Alex (Arielle Kebbel, John Tucker Must Die). When Anna sees the ghost of her mother point at Rachael and scream “Murder!”, Anna and Alex begin to investigate Rachael’s past and make some unsettling discoveries. The Uninvited combines two horror trends: Twist endings (in this case, more than one) and recycling Asian horror images (particularly wet, crawling corpses). There’s nothing particularly outstanding about The Uninvited, but it’s superior to more lackluster Asian horror remakes like One Missed Call. The three lead actresses all have strangely glossy faces that look molded out of plastic, which adds a perhaps unintentional layer of creepiness. –Bret Fetzer

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Better than most horror remakes,

By spidersilk (Colorado) -

This review is from: The Uninvited (DVD)

I have to start by saying that I was not one of the many people who consider the Korean original, A Tale of Two Sisters, a masterpiece. A good movie, yes, but one that is far too riddled with plot holes to be considered a masterpiece.

I honestly think The Uninvited is on the same level as the original. I think many critics were way too harsh: this movie is by no means perfect, but it’s much better than the usual horror remakes Hollywood churns out.

The actors in the movie gave great performances, espeically Emily Browning as main character Anna. The storyline was good and I think for being their first feature film, The Gaurd Brothers did a very good job directing. While not shocking (since I have seen the original), I thought that the twist was utilized in a good way, even if it has been “seen before”.

The flaws in this movie are that it does have a somewhat slow pacing, and will require patience and ATTENTION from its viewer. And it wasn’t scary, it should have been advertised more as a thriller than a horror movie.

Overall, it’s a pretty good movie. I’ll definitely be picking it up on DVD. It’s not a movie for everyone, but if you’re not picky about your movies and want to see a thriller with some good performances, a touch of horror, and a good twist, then I recommend The Uninvited.

Classy, fun and, yes, kind of scary,

By Terry Mesnard (Bellevue, NE) -
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This review is from: The Uninvited (DVD)

The Uninvited begins with our protagonist, Anna, in a mental ward after dealing with the emotional trauma of losing her mother in a freak fire. As the film begins, her psychiatrist believes she is ready to go back into the real world and she is allowed to move back in with her father and her older sister, Alex. Unfortunately, father is now seeing Rachel, a nurse who was in charge of Anna’s mother. This weird situation is further complicated by the fact that Anna is becoming more and more convinced that her mom wasn’t killed in a freak accident…maybe she was murdered.

So if you have watched ghost movies over the last ten or so years, you basically know this film. It hits all of the major plot points, has a couple requisite twists and throws weird scares at you (it is based on a Korean film, you know). I expected all of this. I even expected one twist that I thought was revealed very early on. Even so, the ending still surprised me and I have to say that this film was classy in telling a familiar story. The truth is, there hasn’t really been a genre-changing film in the ghost story genre for awhile now. The Uninvited is no different. So, what is important is not what is being told (as there’s nothing new under the sun), but how it’s told.

Here The Uninvited soars where a lot of recent ghost stories (Unborn, for example) have failed. The storytelling is far classier than it has any right to be, the script is well-written and convincing and the actors are terrific. Emily Browning, playing Anna, practically carries the weight of the film on her slender shoulders. With her forlorn and innocent gaze, you really start to feel for her increasingly desperate plight. Meanwhile, her sister is played perfectly by Arielle Kebbel who brings a sexy older sibling charm to the proceedings. And then there’s Elizabeth Banks, playing the stepmother who might not be all she says she is.

All of this is pitted against a murder mystery or two and wrapped up in a perfect bow. There’s not a dull moment in the film, the scares actually startled me, even when I expected them and some of the ghostly hauntings could give the weird factor of The Grudge/Ring a run for their money. It’s effective and very well done.

I definitely recommend going to see it. The Korean film, A Tale of Two Sisters, is definitely in my scope now, to see how it stacks up. Go see The Uninvited if you’re in the mood for a fun, classy and, yes, sometimes scary ghost story.

Lifetime Movie With That Is A Better Than Average Thriller,

By H. A Huffman “haumf” (Mt. Prospect, IL USA) -

  

This review is from: The Uninvited (DVD)

T he Uninvited is a rather pleasent surprise. The movie starts off as a ghost story; where a girl returns to her home after being put into a psychiatric hospital. She became unglued after witnessing her mother’s death in a fire. She finds another woman living with her father and the girl’s negative reaction to Step-Mom leads to a series of events including murder.

What I liked most about this movie is its reaonably intelligent screenplay. The ending was pretty clever and a big surprise to anyone NOT paying attention to what was on the screen.

A decent rental or purchase.
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