The Uninvited (2009/I)

Movie: The Uninvited (2009/I)

“After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother’s former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidences to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discovers the truth about the fire in the boat house. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”

• Release Date:
  30 January 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  87 min
• Country: USA , Canada , Germany
• Genre: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for violent and disturbing images, thematic material, sexual content, language and teen drinking.

Tagline: Fear moves in

Trivia: ‘The Uninvited’ is a remake of a 2003 Korean Horror film Janghwa, Hongryeon (2003) (literally “Rose Flower, Red Lotus”) or “A Tale of Two Sisters,” starring Su-jeong Lim and Geun-Young Moon. It was directed by Ji-woon Kim and is the highest grossing Korean horror film to date.

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: Rachel dumps the large cut of meat onto a board with four sharp prongs after she takes it out of the oven; these boards are designed to skewer the meat so that it will be held still while carving and not move or roll around. Despite this, when Anna bumps into the table, the meat simply rolls off the board – which it could not have done on such a board.