A week or two ago the new scary flick The Uninvited hit the theaters, and the thud was ...well a thud. The Uninvited, should have been left off the guest list.
This is the story of a young girl, Anna, and her dealing with the death of her mother, who died under suspicious circumstances. Her incredibly rich author father has taken up residence with his new girlfriend, who appears to be 20 years his junior. Anna unable to cope with her loss and life's rapidly changing pace, is placed in a mental institution after a suicide attempt. At the movies start she is released and is sent home.
Anna cannot deal with all the changes in her young life. Her runaway imagination has her thinking her mother was killed by the new girlfriend, and we're supposed to believe it too. Trouble here is. we don't really care about any of these people, and that's TI's really big problem. There's just no real interest in the whole thing.
I was checking my watch plenty during this borefest wondering if I was going to stay awake long enough to witness the inevitable plot twist that was bound to come. You didn't know exactly what it was, but you know it's coming. Luckily for me I wasn't snoozing when it happened, but I should have been. (Good thing I napped beforehand) The performances are average, the plot has been done to death and there is no new ground broken here. They did film this movie though at one of the greatest houses you will ever see anywhere, that was cool.
There's nothing to this mess. Predictable, and formula driven, you're way ahead of this movie most of the time. Warning too....this movie is not scary! They want you to think it is, but it's not! It's just dark, and dim.
The Uninvited. Not inviting!
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