The Uninvited

Plot Outline: Anna Rydell returns home to her sister (and best friend) Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother, aloof father, and the presence of a ghost in their home.

Category: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime:87 min
Rating: 6.4/10
Languages: English
Director:
Charles Guard
Thomas Guard
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS

Writing by:

Craig Rosenberg - screenplay
Doug Miro - screenplay
Carlo Bernard - screenplay)

Produced by:

Doug Davison - executive producer
Casey Grant - co-producer
Michael Grillo - executive producer
Roy Lee - producer
Laurie MacDonald - producer
Walter F. Parkes - producer
Riyoko Tanaka - co-producer

Cast:

Emily Browning - Anna
Arielle Kebbel - Alex
David Strathairn - Steven
Elizabeth Banks - Rachael
Maya Massar - Mom
Kevin McNulty - Sheriff Emery
Jesse Moss - Matt
Dean Paul Gibson - Dr. Silberling
Don S. Davis - Mr. Henson
Lex Burnham - Iris
Matthew Bristol - David
Danny Bristol - Samuel

Music: Christopher Young

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Plot: The movie begins with a young girl, Anna (Emily Browning), making out with her boyfriend Matt on the beach at a party. After he tells Anna he loves her and has "a condom", she gets up to leave. As she goes, her sister Alex (Arielle Kebbel) asks if everything is all right. On her way through the woods to her house, Anna encounters three white garbage bags. When she goes to open them, the cadaver of a redheaded girl falls out. As Anna recoils, the girl's head snaps around and speaks. Screaming and afraid, Anna runs home. She then hears a bell that her terminally ill mother rings when she needs something. Anna is concerned because her mother is not supposed to be alone. However, after she leaves the boathouse her mother is in, it explodes into flames and a piece of debris comes flying towards her, burning her. It is then revealed that this is a dream Anna is having.

She has been in a mental hospital since the death of her mother ten months earlier, but her psychiatrist believes she is ready to leave. He tells her to "finish what she started". As Anna packs, another patient comes in, asking Anna who she will tell her stories to now that Anna is leaving. Anna's father takes her home, where she is joyfully reunited with her sister, Alex, who is angry, asks why Anna never responded to the mail she sent her. Anna then tells her that she never received any letters; Alex yells at their father for not sending them. He ignores her. Anna also sees Rachel (Elizabeth Banks), her mother's former nurse who is now dating Anna's father. Later that night, Anna overhears Rachel and her father having sex, so she turns up her music to a louder volume. She also has nightmares about a dead body trying to grab hold of her, but when she wakes up, it is merely Alex standing over her...

Goofs:

• Plot holes: The girls' mother had fitted out the boathouse as her sickroom and summons help with a small hand-ball. It is never explained how the bell could be heard in the main house.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Anna is at the Party, Rachel tells her to take out the trash. When she opens the trash can, You can clearly hear the lid open, so when she finally closed it, how come there wasn't any sound?
• Revealing mistakes: Pay close attention to the bags of groceries and the box of supplies that Matt delivers to the dock. Although the bags are apparently full and the box contains some heavy looking items, it's obvious by the way the girls easily lift and toss them around that they indeed contain nothing but empty boxes, bottles, etc.
• Continuity: When you first see the mother the bell is on her left arm, but the next time you see the mother the bell is now on her right arm.
• Revealing mistakes: The Wright children's tombstones mark 1986 as the year of their death. The online newspaper article covering the children's murder dates from April 11, 1996. It is very unlikely that the children were missing for ten whole years before being discovered by a passer-by.

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.
• Don S. Davis' final theatrical film

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