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When her
mother died, Anna was sent to a psychiatric
ward to recover from the trauma caused by the accident.
Now, 10 months later, Anna gets to return back home
to her father, her sister and her new stepmother.
But not everything seems right with her new stepmother,
she seems to be hiding something and Anna and her
sister Alex are determined to find out what.
It's been almost a year since the remake of Shutter
infuriated me more than any movie has ever managed
to do before. Shutter and A Tale of Two Sisters are
the two Asian horror movies that I hold dearest to
my heart so when they remade Shutter and turned it
into a turd I was pissed off to say the least. Now
the remake of A Tale Of Two Sisters is here, and once
again most people are completely oblivious to the
fact that this is a remake. I mean, how would they
know - even the title is different. This time I didn't
walk out of the cinema before the movie was over as
at least The Uninvited is a well-made movie, unlike
Shutter. It genuinely wants to be good but since it
is so Americanized and dumbed down for the mainstream
audiences to be able to understand it - it still
managed to piss me off - even if just a little bit.
The Uninvited is not dumbed down just a little, it is
dumbed down to the point where the twists no longer
feel like they're twists. Sitting there having to watch
one of my favourite horror movies get torn to pieces
made me feel sick to my stomach but a part of me
was still forgiving because I don't think that the
creators of The Uninvited actually understood the
original. I think that even they were too dumb to
understand what was so genius about the original.
No wonder this came out feeling like another generic
American ghost story - while the original was anything
but. This is not the sophisticated psychological
thriller that the original was, this is a movie
for the MTV-crowd and it makes no attempt at hiding
this fact. Heck, the movie even starts out with the
two sisters getting drunk and making out with boys
at a party. Yeah, even the first frame set me up
for disappointment.
The main scares from the original are still there
though even if they are far less effective and more
Americanized this time around (they don't really
make much sense though since the ending kind of
contradicts a lot of the events in the movie). Okay,
now that I've made you all painfully aware of how
pale this movie is in comparison to the original
I will try to point out some positive stuff. First
of all, if you're unaware that this is a remake or
if you haven't seen the original - this isn't that
awful. I would say that it's on par with The Unborn
(which isn't a compliment really but still). The
acting is great even though the characters are very
different from the original (they focus on the nice,
shy sister this time around). I also didn't mind
the directing. That's all the positive things I can
come up with though.
As a remake, I absolutely HATE The Uninvited, but as
a stand-alone movie it's just bad - not awful. I was
planning on writing a really long review for this
movie but you know what? I won't. Instead I am going
to spend the time that I was going to spend writing
a long review for this movie on watching the original
again. Hopefully South Korea will be able to come
up with a genius horror movie like that again sometime
in the future.
PG-13.
Far from as brilliant as the powerful soundtrack in
the original but still above average.
The Uninvited was certainly and uninvited remake that
nobody wanted. Anyone who's seen the original and
is smart enough to understand it (I have to confess,
I didn't understand everything the first time that
I saw it) will hate this remake and stay away from
it. If you like generic American ghost stories that
are so dumbed down that even Paris Hilton would be
able to get it - be my guest, check it out.
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