Uninvited (2008)

Best movie of this year hands down!

hyped garbage

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Ridiculous thing is, these two movies are within two years apart. Never seen that before! So here's the painful part! I saw the other version when it first came out. I remember it being an at least decent movie. So then I come across this on TV thinking it's the same one. Completely confused I sat watching this painful mess of a movie trying to figure out how I couldn't possibly have remembered " the uninvited" as being such a horrible movie. I mean in the making of this movie, the apparently did not get one little tiny bit of a care as to how horribly bad acting was being played out. Yes the movie storyline itself is horrible, but the acting is downright the worst I have ever seen! Watching this movie just made me angry! Apparently they knew that once the word got out that no one would waste their time with this movie. So the only way to get an audience was to steal the name of another movie that had came out at about the exact same time. Horrible movie! As bad as it gets!

I have no idea what just happened in this movie, who most of the characters were, and I have a raging headache. This movie left me cold, disappointed, very confused, and wishing I could have my 2 hours back. The characters are not really developed aside from the main character, Lee. The other characters aren't essential to the plot, are mostly absent from the story, and their interactions with Lee don't make any sense and do not drive the story along, so you don't care about them. It's nearly impossible to feel connected or even interested in the other characters. I've been sitting here for about 15 minutes trying to figure out what the plot was supposed to be and why the director failed to notice that the final cut of this film is a nonsensical mess. I'm terribly confused and angry, because I thought I would be watching the more recent film by the same name and my cable company failed to notice the difference.Seriously, do not waste your time on this piece of garbage.

Afraid of space itself!? Is that or is that not the lamest phobia ever? Get outta here, that's one of the stupidest things I ever heard! Did they make it up? I find it hard to believe such a ridiculous phobia actually exists. I can't believe Marguerite Moreau has ever been in much else, her acting skills really stank! She never said not a one word that had a little emotion to it in the slightest, and she somehow managed to keep her expression totally blank for the length of the whole movie. She wasn't even all that nice to look at. She was like an even lamer version of Sandra Bullock. And didn't you just wanna slap her? All she seemed to do was wisp around the walls, and whine. I could kind of relate to her, in that sitting through this monster was akin to staring at a white wall for 1hr&30! For me, it wasn't actually that this was a terrifically bad movie it was just a terrifically dull and boring one. I literally began yawning. It was all so weak and lifeless I could freaking feel it sucking the life right out of me!!! It was vaguely atmospheric, but I don't think being slightly anything is enough to save any film from an avalanche of boredom. The movie seemed to play a curious game against time...every second just stretching on longer than it should, while me the poor viewer just kept on waiting for something to happen... It barely had one, but here's the plot!: This girl once had a weird phobia, she got herself cured of it, some guy made a documentary about it, they got married and moved to a log cabin somewhere that just happened to be haunted. Bad move. She has a relapse, nothing happens...something about a baby, nothing happens some more...something about a weird baby-eating ghost granny, then another ghost appears that's wrapped in chains and grabs her spatially-challenged ass and tosses it down a basement. She then bumps into a crazy friend who accuses her of stealing her dead baby(?) The crazy friend wanders off and finds the chain biker dude ghost. He leaps out of nowhere and wails on her, it's actually a little >scary!< She shoots the ghost dead(?) and goes back to Lee. They reconcile. She then dies of her injuries. It's a little sad.. Lee hears a spooky noise. She runs and hides under her bed. Her husband returns from wherever he's been throughout the movie, looking for her. He finds her and speaks a load of unintelligible crud. He leaves her to investigate. While he appears to check out some panties in the basement, granny gross ghost comes back and grins at Lee like a retard for about 5 mins. Lee finally drags herself from under the bed and stands up to the ghost, thereby conquering her fear, it really should be awesome or something but by this point you just don't care because the movie has completely devolved into a horrendously dull and confusing mess. She sees her husband. He's holding a real baby(?) He's revealed to be a real jerky who's just been using her to get the baby. He's gonna shoot her. No he's not, because he's surprised and strangled by the chain ghost. Lee looks at the reunited ghost family of her crazy friend, chain ghost, and baby. She shoots them all dead(?!?) Lee stands there with the baby, or the baby's ghost, oh god I don't know! She hears freaky backwards voices. She leaves the cabin. She walks away. The ghost of her crazy friend emerges from the cabin behind her and grins like a goomba, strongly indicating that this ain't over. It ends, and the goddamn Blair Witch Project was more fun.. A decidedly stupid, grey little effort of a psychological supernatural mystery horror with zero real excitement to it. I just gotta say it, it's a film done the Badway! Bye now.

I saw this movie on IFC, originally thinking I was watching the 2009 film of the same title (thanks, cable company for mis-labeling the description!) The beginning was interesting but the rest of the movie fell flat. It was confusing and disjointed throughout. Although I like Marguerite Moreau, in my opinion very few movies can be successful with only one actor on screen for the majority of the film (e.g., Cast Away) and this one is no exception. Even the greatest actress in the world would have had nothing to work with here. I was intrigued by Lee's unusual phobia and how it was initially presented to the viewer. However, the only reason I kept watching it was because I expected (or hoped) that the rest of it would live up to the beginning, and I was sorely disappointed. There were certainly scary moments, if you are into that sort of thing, but even those were very predicable - I almost always knew when to look away or turn down the volume to avoid being bombarded by yet another scary face.The plot simply didn't go anywhere and the film just dragged and dragged. I don't believe that the origins of the phobia were adequately explained. I was waiting for some big revelation about the old woman, what had happened next door, etc., but it never came. I certainly didn't come to any better understanding about it. The character experienced flashbacks from her childhood but nothing connected to the present. The scenes with the therapist were confusing - was she recalling the therapy or was she imagining it now in order to cope with her current situation? The subplot with the ghosts in the house and demonic presences was poorly executed. Okay, so the spirits were messing with her mind. So what? To what end? It was obvious that her husband had drugged her - why else would he keep asking if she ate the breakfast? The husband seemed sketchy all along and I wasn't surprised that he turned out to be evil, or an opportunist, or whatever. But that whole storyline was inadequately presented and was not resolved.The movie seemed to tease the viewer with the beginnings of ideas but failed to follow through, as in a poorly supported essay or thesis. You were teased about the husband's new project dealing with spirits, but there was no elaboration. You were teased about the history of the house, but not enough information was provided. You were presented with the situation with the girl and her baby, and it rang incredibly false. To me the girl's character was unnecessary and uninspired. I realize she was there in order to move the plot along, but it didn't work. I wasn't invested and didn't care what happened to her. I didn't care about her baby. There wasn't enough of a presence of her in the movie to make the viewer engage in her character. The man in chains was another confusing character. Yeah, I get it, he was scary, but what was he doing there? What did he add, other than a tribute to Frankenstein's monster? I realize, unintentionally, my review of the movie has been quite choppy. Inadvertent as this was, this is appropriate since it parallels the path of the movie. Nothing made sense, nothing was properly explained or concluded. At the end I found myself wondering, what the heck was this movie about? Although I did not enjoy the movie I was hoping for some kind of resolution, something to take away, some bottom line I could gather as to what the film was about. But I was disappointed yet again, and I still can't figure it out. I am a fan of films that weave the plot with enough ambiguity to allow the viewer to make up his own mind and draw his own conclusions. This wasn't one of those movies. There were so many gaping holes in the plot that there were no dots to connect - just wide open space. You are left guessing all the way through, and worse, at the end, you don't even care.Bottom line - if you like psychological thrillers, horror movies, ghost stories, occult films, or movies in general, stay away. You will just be annoyed that you wasted your time. I would rank this movie among the worst I have ever seen. It was a failure as a scary movie or any other genre of film.