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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: Dreamworks Video
Salesrank: 8530
Released: April 28, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 28-APR-2009
Media Type: DVD
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:
Eerie.. but with a twist of an ending!!! 
2009-11-29 - So I am one of those people who absolutely love horror movies, even the crappy ones like 'The Ring'. So with this movie I had no idea what it was about until me and my cousin rented it.
For those who don't know 'The Uninvited' is about two girls, one of which has been recently released from a psychward after the strange death of their mother. They both start investigating the past of their father's new girlfriend (who happens to have been their mothers former nurse). Later they come to the conclusion that she setup the murder of their mother and they try and get people to believe them.
Anyways, I would reccomend this movie to most people who love the creepy kinds of movies. It really isn't a movie that makes you want to have bad dreams for a week, but their are a few parts thay could be certified as 'creepy'. Furthermore, the movie is really good especially the ending!(which happens to be one of the biggest twists I have ever seen in a movie!
CLEVER SHOCKER THAT WILL SURPRISE YOU!
2009-11-23 - 'The Uninvited' starts out like so many other stories of this nature and makes you feel very comfortable. I think that is part of its cleverness to let your guard down and think you know what to expect. There are many scenes where you know what's coming, but still made me jump! The acting is very good for this type of film and I have to admit I was surprised at the ending. The film has a few good shocks, creepy images, brisk pacing and the last quarter of the film completely validates the cliché's that plague the rest of the film. 'The Uninvited' is a very good shocker with a few great surprises!
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!
