You might jump out of your seat once or twice, but many of the alleged scary scenes in this psychological horror/thriller are so cliched that they'll make you chuckle.
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03/27/09
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.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Mar 19, 2009 Wide
US 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
Reviews for The Uninvited
Top CriticThe good work done by the Guards earlier in the picture -- continual layering of one new level of mystique upon another -- is tainted by a sudden desperation to explain away everything with several clumsy flashbacks.
03/27/09
Top CriticThis 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.
03/27/09
Top CriticThanks to a pair of talented actresses, The Uninvited is intriguing for almost an hour and a half. The ending is a convoluted letdown, but I have to admit I didn't guess the twist.
03/27/09
Top CriticThe direction is by the Guard Brothers, Charles and Thomas, Brits making their first feature -- and they’ve done a pretty slick job.
03/27/09
Top CriticApart from excellent performances, there is little to recommend The Uninvited, not even great ghoulish effects.
03/20/09
Top CriticAs far as PG-13 Americanizations of Asian shockers go, it's about 70 percent passable
08/26/09
Just to set the taste level, the first line in The Uninvited is 'I love you, I have a condom.' Yep, the bar is already lowered.
06/10/09
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05/13/09
A mild improvement over its nigh unwatchable predecessor...
05/12/09
Suffers from a meekness -- its scares never dig deep and are more sensational than disturbing, and its storyline has been modified to something more conventional.
05/07/09
The latest teen horror, directed by Charles and Thomas Guard, has a bit more patience than such films usually display.
04/28/09
It is less bloody and less ambiguous than the original.
04/28/09
The Uninvited is workmanlike and has a twist too many, but it's always entertaining and kept afloat by three game leading ladies and competent hands behind the camera.
04/25/09
Unremarkable, unimaginative and unnecessary. Check out the superior original instead.
04/24/09
Poor remake of the Korean thriller.
04/24/09
Top CriticAs 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.
04/24/09
The Uninvited is a little too mild-mannered to please any but the most vanilla of horror fans.
04/24/09
Top CriticThey 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.
04/24/09
Top CriticLike its own Asian source, this movie has a big and elaborately planted twist up its sleeve, but this time around it leaves us feeling tricked and underwhelmed -- horror primly behaving itself as a peekaboo exercise in misdirection.
04/24/09
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