The Uninvited

2009 "Can you believe what you see?"
6.3| 1h27m| PG-13| en
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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. Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life
Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
gavin6942 Anna Ivers returns home to her sister Alex (Arielle Kebbel) after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother (Elizabeth Banks). Her dismay quickly turns to horror when she is visited by ghastly visions of her dead mother.I'm always hesitant to watch horror movies on Netflix, because they tend to be newer and lower budget (not that this is always a bad thing). This one is newer, but the budget is there, and they were able to get a few faces I recognize. Especially Arielle Kebbel and Elizabeth Banks, with a nice, smaller role by horror veteran Jesse Moss.Much of the film plays out sort of like a mystery. What is going on? Is it supernatural? Is the stepmother really who she claims to be? It's not the best suspense film, but it is more than adequate in holding your attention, especially thanks to strong performances. In a way, this film anticipates the widely celebrated "Goodnight Mommy".
jfgibson73 This movie was fairly easy to watch. It kept me interested enough to want to continue to the end, but didn't require much effort from me as a viewer. It's the horror equivalent of a Sandra Bullock romantic comedy--it moves along, it tells its story, and then it's done. It's about a girl coming home from a psych ward after the death of her mother. She lives in a sprawling New England lake home with her sister, her father, and her father's new girlfriend. The daughters don't like the new love interest--they're pretty sure dad was involved with her before mom even died, even though she was the nurse hired to take care of her. The girl sees ghosts and believes that they are trying to tell her the new girlfriend had something to do with the mother's death. It ends with a twist that viewers will either be trying to guess or not see coming at all, and then it's out. Not that memorable, but easily digested. I did have a problem with the way the girl moved as slowly as possible, just like every other character in every horror movie, whenever there was a noise she needed to examine. I thought this movie was at least smart enough to get around the clichés, but when I saw how they ended it, I realized they were never worried about being original.
GL84 Returning home from a time in an insane asylum, a young woman and her sister's ghostly experiences convince them something isn't right with their father's new girlfriend, and take it upon themselves to figure out the truth behind the situation.Overall this here was quite the impressive and overly enjoyable remake. Among the better qualities here is the fantastic atmosphere present, which makes this one far more chilling and suspense than expected not only in the film itself but inside a film of this rating. The opening revelation back-story of the journey through the woods, coming across the corpse in the trash-bag and being up in the house before the explosion makes for make for a solid opening along with the fine questioning afterward where it fills in on why its important, while what happens at the house is where this really gets going. Following up the hallucination in the outhouse is the stellar sequence in the living room seeing the ghost materialize from the floor in the middle of the absolutely dark, creepy room and then crawling over to her horrified in the corner while the dream she has about her boyfriend as her flashback to the diner scene with the creepy children before seeing him crawl through and change into the deformed being that mirrors his real- life condition. These fun scenes give this one a wholly fun and enjoyable build here to the engrossing mystery at the heart of the film, from their search into her name and the connection with her previous job using the online pictures and reports combined with the ghostly prompting from her visions at the funeral create a really strong sense here that goes hand-in-hand with the stellar twist at the end here for a really great story. Though the twist itself seems so obvious when looking back on the scenes after the fact but comes off incredibly well and shocking here with the really startling manner it flashes back at the end with the encounter in the house being shown what really happened and how the girl got everything done in real life which gives this some nice bits of action as well as clearing up a lot of the other lame story lines. These here all make this one quite fun and enjoyable enough to help hold this up over the few minor flaws here. The biggest issue here is the film's rather decided lack of ghost action throughout the course here, as there's so few scenes here that it really tends to get overlooked here in this kind of story to the point of even wondering whey it was included. There's no importance placed on their appearance, there's no information gleamed from them and it doesn't really put them in a position to really put it's twist into motion by really offering all that much to suspect that. As well, the film's continual insistence on threatening her with the return to the asylum over whether she's insane or not is rather tiresome and repetitive and there's little about it that's appealing. Otherwise there's a lot to like here.Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and a brief, mild sex scene.
andrewshieh0712 I found The Uninvited on IMDb and saw it got an okay rating (6.4) as a horror/suspense film.(Usually I think that horror movie above 6 could give it a try) So I watched it and thought... meh.First of all, I can probably get what the director is trying to leave the audience to. I was expecting a better and more surprising plot twists than the ending gave me. It was implausible and unconvincing and made me feel that the first 90% of the movie suddenly became trash. I was confused with I finished it, then thought for a while while it gradually makes sense but still filled with tons of flaws. I really expected the director to clarify more on the ending.Secondly, I felt that the movie wasn't scary. There are some jump scares but it's just not scary. It's more suspense than it is scary. There are many scenes that could make it even scarier, but it didn't. However, I do like the cinematography, you can actually tell the difference comparing to other remakes, and The Uninvited stands out from the others.The acting was above-average. We got Emily Browning as the teenage girl who just got out from the mental hospital, Elizabeth Banks as the evil stepmother, Arielle Kebbel as the sister, and David Strathairn as the father. I especially like, Emily Browning who absolute suits the daughter and Elizabeth Banks. I really like how the two actresses interact with each other.The Uninvited is like those movies which stuck between the kick-ass movies and the suck-ass movies. It is definitely not as good as Insidious or Sinister, but is way better than the Grudge and One Missed Call. Since this is a remake, the Uninvited has lots of potential, but failed which turns it into a confusing movie. I am not saying that it is bad, I still find it quite enjoyable, but reviewing from the whole, the ending could have been way better.