Uninvited (2008)

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I watched this movie on one of those days when you're ready to just sit back, relax and hopefully get treated to something really great that you just can't wait to tell somebody about. Well...it sucked, and now I feel obligated to sit in the reviewers corner with the other disenchanted viewers who kept waiting for something, anything, to happen in this film.We generally give every film a fighting chance at least for the first 20 minutes right? Even if it's creeping along as the characters are developed and the plot is revealed,I can usually be fairly patient, but instead I found myself clock watching till it was almost over.One of my biggest pet peeve's is the overuse of extreme darkness in a film, it's impossible to watch especially if you're watching a movie during the day, and there's ambient daylight falling on your TV. The only revealing thing about this situation is it shows you how many fingerprints are on your TV screen. With a four year old in the house, that means many.As far as the characters I'm a little biased since I'm a huge Colin Hay fan, I wanted him to be good in this, but the script didn't allow it. Mr. Hay in my opinion is by far one of the most talented musicians out there however this script bound him to a mediocre at best character.I thought the main character Lee was believable and as neutral in personality as Nick's, but perhaps it was the two like personalities,the overuse of darkness, and the "baby thing" thrown in at the last minute that left me with a feeling akin to buying that gotta have it gizmo thing from a late night info-mercial only to be sadly disappointed when you finally open the box.All in all I think some good talent got sent straight to video on a slow train to nowhere.

The Uninvited starts as Lee (Marguerite Moreau) & her documentary maker husband Nick (Colin Hay) set off for a shoot that will solve all their monetary problems, Nick's production assistant Helena (Brittany Curran) also comes along. The documentary shoot is taking place at an old isolated log cabin where several people were found murdered seven years previously, however there are no reports of any ghost's or anything silly like that. When she was younger Lee suffered from a rare phobia, a phobia of space & Lee always had to be by something like a wall & she couldn't go outside either, Lee met Nick while he was filming a documentary on her recovery but while in the cabin alone the phobia of open space starts to come back. Lee sees & hears strange things & Nick also acts suspiciously, is the cabin in fact haunted? What is Nick & Helena up to? Will Lee ever be able to go outside again?Written & directed by Bob Badway when you search for The Uninvited on the IMDb it brings up no less than fourteen results, probably the most well known of these is Dreamworks horror film The Uninvited (2009) which was actually a remake of the South Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) & the classic Ray Milland shocker The Uninvited (1944) also show's up (I have seen neither of those, for what it's worth) but if your looking for this particular film then read on & try to let me convince you not to waste 90 minutes of your life watching this. Once again the films failings come from a crap script that was written around a low budget in a 'how can we make the cheapest film we can' sort of way. The only piece of originality The Uninvited has going for it is the rare phobia the central character has but she is cured shortly after the film starts & while it comes back to an extent nothing is made of it & by the end sh is completely cured again as she walks down the road, to be honest if you remove this phobia from the script the film would still be exactly the same as it has no significant purpose. The plot is awful, nothing is explained in any detail or to any great satisfaction, why did Nick take Lee to the cabin anyway? Lee's presence served no purpose & in fact only complicated matters more. Who did Nick strike a deal with? And for what? Nick had to pay for the baby anyway so he couldn't have been broke. Who was the guy in chains? A Ghost? A ghost that drives a car & is easily distracted by a train going past? Why did he & that old woman want a baby anyway? Who were they? Where were they going to get all this money that they promised Nick? Why did the deal have to take place in a 'spiritually charged' cabin? Why did Helena change her mind? Just what the hell is The Uninvited all about? The pace is excruciatingly slow, nothing & I mean absolutely nothing happens for the first hour & the supposed twist which never really comes takes up the last ten minutes. The seemingly random ending has Helena come back to life & drool blood, since when did it turn into a zombie flick? The the thirty seconds, that's when. There are only three people in the whole thing really, the character's are awful & the clichéd haunted house shenanigan's like hearing noises are just plain dull & boring. I hate this film, I think it's awful in every way & makes no sense & is seemingly put together at random with no regard for coherency or logic or viewer entertainment.Shot on video mainly in one single location The Uninvited looks cheap, there is no visual style & I suspect most would suffer from extreme boredom rather than extreme fright while trying to watch this. Forget about any decent exploitation either, there's one shot of an old woman eating a babies severed arm but otherwise this is bone dry as far as blood content goes & there's no nudity either. I am not sure if this was meant to be some sort of Rosemary's Baby (1968) rip-off but the plot is so loose & the twist so unclear I couldn't really decide, I suspect it was but that the makers just screwed it up big time & we all ended up with a total mess of a film.Obviously shot on the cheap this looks like the direct to video bargain bin crap you would expect it to be, basically it's ugly. The acting is bad, Colin Hay as Nick is awful why the guy playing that zombie ghost thing was terrible too.The Uninvited is an awful direct to video low budget supernatural horror film with an almost unfathomable twist & the main characteristic about the leading lady feels like an afterthought to pad things out & has no real significance on the plot other than to keep her in one location. The Uninvited is definitely an unwelcome guest as far as I am concerned, do yourself a favour & keep it uninvited & away from your home entertainment system.

Don't loose your time this movie is not watchable i have nothing more to say its not even worth the 3 i gave it 2/10 the plot sucks the actors suck the lighting is horrible you ll get your eyes damage so try to avoid this crap or at least play it to fast forward not to loose valuable time from your life the ghost story started to be annoying after the paranormal bullshit I just wondering there so many haunted houses in USA with ghosts and staff that researchers watching out night and day why people don't give us movies with real stories from people got murdered and stuff would be more interesting stuff to watch than this one -the ghost stories to be watchable must been based on real info's surrounded by mystery and not crap like this who will gonna be scared from this one? no one! If you have a fireplace and you got this on DVD burn it and watch it burning out it will be more fun!!

well i saw this movie on television when i was bored and it was quite late in my room alone then this movie started i first mixed it with the other famous uninvited (2009), as i started watchin' it thinking' that i'm watchin' that famous one i really began to like it after a while i knew it was some other movie but it still had my interest, and the style they started this movie was also very interestin' tellin' some woman's past how she got some phobia n now she can't see in open space n stuff, well i hav to say it did'nt disappoint me that much as i was really scared at some moments, really got my interest thou there were some defects in the script could have been much better if they had taken the suspense and intensity till the end but it was'nt really there till the end. still i would say it is a pretty interestin', scary and enjoyable movie and i i'll suggest u guys to watch this movie with an open mind don't expect anythin' or make your predictions about the story.