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Extreme Movie
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Uninvited, The
DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violent and disturbing images, thematic material, sexual content, language and teen drinking
Starring
Elizabeth Banks,
Emily Browning,
Arielle Kebbel,
and
David Strathairn
In the suspense thriller The Uninvited, based on the 2003 Korean motion picture "Changhwa, Hongryon" written and directed by Kim Jee-woon, Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father, Steven. Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions. Together, Anna and her sister must convince their father that his new fiancee is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother. (Paramount)
GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Horror
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Suspense/Thriller
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WRITTEN BY: |
Craig Rosenberg
Doug Miro
Carlo Bernard
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DIRECTED BY: |
Thomas Guard
Charles Guard
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RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: January 30, 2009
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RUNNING TIME: |
87 minutes, Color |
ORIGIN: |
USA |
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75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Emily Browning's face helps The Uninvited work so well...She makes you fear for her, and that's half the battle. Yet she's so fresh she's ready for a Jane Austen role.
75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The Uninvited is a flawed production, but gratifying in the way it delivers. The interesting and unique elements of the movie effectively compensate for the formulaic way in which the plot develops.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Won't make anyone forget "The Shining," but it's a nice throwback to the days when scary movies featured pretty good actors, a plot that holds together and a couple of creepy-looking ghost kids.
70
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
A remake of the 2003 Korean horror film "A Tale of Two Sisters," The Uninvited is a Hand That Rocks the Cradle–type thriller that's been dressed up as a horror movie.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
With visual nods to Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" and a fairly faithful adherence to the tenor and tone of the Korean scare genre, The Uninvited doesn't startle and shock so much as it lulls you into a series of unsettling, hallucinogenic set pieces.
63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Don't be too quick to turn down The Uninvited.
A stylish horror thriller in the vein of "The Ring," it's well-acted, frightening and handsomely produced
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The actors are strong, however, and Banks in particular shows some skill and wiles in keeping her rascally stepmother stereotype lively.
60
Washington Post
Mike Mayo
Experienced horror fans will probably stay one step ahead of the game, but it's still a nice ride.
50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The result is a middling Frankenstein-like hybrid of spectral mayhem and murder mystery, constructed entirely out of borrowed parts.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
The film is still cheesy rather than deliciously scary. It never really generates sustained suspense.
50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The first Hollywood horror flick I've seen that seems like it was made specifically for 12-year-olds.
50
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The main problem with The Uninvited lies in its refusal to decide just what movie it wants to be a commercial for. It certainly doesn’t have much in common with "A Tale of Two Sisters," the creepy Korean horror film of which it is supposedly a remake.
50
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The horror flick The Uninvited is not unclever - but it is unoriginal.
40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
As is generally the case with Hollywood movies that use Asian horror films as their inspiration, the Guard brothers seem to have glanced at the original, borrowed a few images and then made the movie according to some preconceived template of what makes audiences jump -- instead of burrowing into the stuff that haunts our dreams.
40
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Weak even by the standard of uninspired recent Asian-horror remakes, The Uninvited is more likely to induce snickers and yawns than shudders and yelps.
40
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Yeah, this is pretty much your classic been-there, done-that scenario: evil stepmother, clueless father, imperiled teen.
40
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The plot borrows as freely from Hitchcock and Henry James as from the Bard of Avon, and doesn't make scrupulous sense, though I'd have to see the film again, which I won't do, to make sure it doesn't cheat.
38
Premiere
Richard Chester
The climax is the only thing for which the rest of this flick exists.
30
Los Angeles Times
Glenn Whipp
Without dwelling on the limited abilities of novice British filmmakers Tom and Charles Guard (a.k.a. the Guard Brothers) -- who seem to have divvied up duties here by having one sibling focus exclusively on close-up shots of doorknobs and the other oversee everything else -- the movie's fatal flaw is the undeveloped relationship between the two sisters.
25
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A brutally inane movie.
16
Entertainment Weekly
Adam Markovitz
Horror standbys like mangled corpses and stone-faced children pop up regularly, but sibling directors Charles and Thomas Guard haven't quite nailed the genre's rhythms.
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