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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: Dreamworks Video
Salesrank: 3939
Released: April 28, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
FOLLOWING THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF THEIR MOTHER, SISTERS ANNA AND ALEX BECOME ENTANGLED IN A DEADLY BATTLE OF WILLS WHEN THEIR FATHER BECOMES ENGAGED TO RACHEL, THEIR MOTHERS FORMER CARETAKER.
Description of The Uninvited:
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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The Uninvited Reviews:
Loved it! 
2009-11-09 - I loved this movie and it has a twist you won't expect at the end! Emily Browning is a beautiful and talented actress and I am very glad she took this role! Definitely rent this if you won't buy it!
Worth watching twice 
2009-11-05 - After the fire, everything seems to have changed. The woman that was supposed to watch over the matriarch of the family is now in the arms of the father, and the daughter coming home finds this disturbing. Worse still is the mystery of the night itself - what happened, how it happened, who caused it - there seem to be a thousand questions spinning like a loom in her mind. This leads her to question everything and everyone, and to wonder why she keeps seeing her dead mother, looking at her and pointing out the window to the tune of one word: "murderer."
The first time I watched The Uninvited, I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. There are twists and turns that are unexpected, people that seem like horrid only to be victims, and terrible calamities that await anyone caught in this unexpected maelstrom. The dead are not quite in this movie, either, making their presence known as they piece together things that a broken memory does not contain. Still, things are not what they seem and, at the end of the movie, the tune sung is not what I expected. I liked that - being surprised for a change - because most movies are easy to figure out. This one can be figure out if a person sets out to do it as well, but the horrific camouflage that hides the plot is thick enough to keep one from guessing the true ending.
Another great thing about this movie is the first time you watch it with all the answers in your pocket. This casts a strange light on everything and shows you just how much your implied sensibilities make you guess at the answers you think you have. In truth, I enjoyed doing this more than anything, and I say this because it shows the characters without the smokescreen they throw up. This makes for an interesting showing, not better than the movie the first time around but great nonetheless, and made me happy that had the chance to scan the show once more.
If you like your horror creepy, then you'll enjoy this. It has some terrible parts inside the storyline, with bodies snapping to stand and terrors limping across the floor to make contact with our main character. In some places I actually felt for her, and this made me all-the-more happy when I watched it on the second go. If you are thinking, "I should skip this because it's a modern movie," then you would also be wrong. It appeals to a range of people that enjoy movies both new and old, and even took me - an old school horror junkie - for a nice little ride. While it has its points of horror it is also a psychological tale, and the feeling that you get at first, thinking you have the answers, is a deceptive one. I recommend at least watching it twice, just to get the feel of knowing and then not really knowing, just to show you how well the actors did in their roles. Normally I would not recommend a new-school movie, either, but this is one that I think is worthy of praise.
"Poor little Anna... you're not gonna ruin this for me."
2009-10-27 - This was a great movie! I wish they renamed the title of A Tale of Two Sisters. Because it did remind me of that movie while I was watching it. I love Emily Browning in this movie! She is my favorite actress. I would love to meet her one day. What I liked about this movie was that it did have some differences from A Tale of Two Sisters. The only difference was that there was no dinner scene. If you saw A Tale of Two Sisters, then you know what I'm talking about. This movie was great! I loved it!
Great movie!
2009-09-20 - I was so relieved that this American version of The Uninvited was not patterned after the Asian film of the same name, but rather after the Asian film A Tale of Two Sisters. The Asian version of The Univited was long, not frightening, and entirely too boring. The Asian film A Tale of Two Sisters was very engrossing, only there were some variances in culture, which I am not well versed in. This version of The Uninvited begins with Anna being released from a mental institution in much better condition that the girl in the Asian film. She is trying to remember the events that took place the night of the fire in which her mother died. Her father has written a book and dedicated it to Anna and her sister Alex. He also surprises her by saying that he has taken up with her mother's former nurse Rachel and later tells her of his plans to marry her. Right from the start, Anna is suspicious of Rachel, feeling that she is somehow involved in her mother's death. If you have seen the Asian film A Tale of Two Sisters, then you will know what plot twist is to come. Alex tries talking to her father about Rachel, but he doesn't seem to hear her. They even managed to include the strange under-the-sink scene, which I consider to be THE MOST STARTLING SCENE OF ANY MOVIE I have seen up until now. I knew it was coming, but I still jumped. Little bits of information come together by the end to make for a perfect Hitchcockian ending.
The Uninvited
2009-09-09 - Very good suspense movie, I would recommend to those who enjoy that type of movie. A twist a the end that is surprising, like the movie Sixth Sense.
