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The Uninvited

Fear moves in

A young woman returns home after some time in a mental hospital where she went after her mother's tragic death under suspicious circumstances. She's hardly home when her mother's ghost starts murdering her, pointing an accusing finger at daddy's new wife... who used to be mommy's nurse. As our heroine and her sister try to solve the mystery, the killer moves against them... while mom continues to seek justice from beyond the grave.

87 minutes, No persons under 13 (Language, Sex, Violence)
Detective/Mystery, Drama, Horror, Thriller.

Credits

Cast

Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Massar, Kevin McNulty, Jesse Moss, Dean Paul Gibson

Director

Charles Guard, Thomas Guard

Screenplay

Craig Rosenberg, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard, from the script by Ji-woon Kim

Music

Christopher Young

Cinematography

Dan Landin

Editing

Jim Page, Christian Wagner

Sound formats

Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS

Soundtrack

Not available

Made in

2009

Produced by

Cold Spring Pictures, DWBC Productions, DreamWorks SKG, MacDonald/Parkes Productions, The Montecito Picture Company, Vertigo Entertainment

SA Distributor

UIP

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Horror, thriller
Language	Moderate, infrequent
Nudity	None
Sex	Infrequent, one strongly implied but very brief sex scene.
Violence	Fairly frequent, bloody, some strongly implied
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Infrequent alcohol
Comments	A lot of menace, threat and suspense.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore / Gross

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)

South African Media

24.comIvan Sadler

International Media

Box Office (USA)Amy Nicholson Just another paint-by-numbers horror flick.

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert This is a well-crafted first feature by the Guard Brothers.

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs Possessing a few decent scares but far more (unintentional) laughs, The Uninvited isn't as spooky as it should be and thus won't likely induce many later nightmares -- the true litmus test of a scary film.

Metacritic.com24 critics

RottenTomatoes.com119 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer The Uninvited is moody and reasonably involving, but suffers from predictable plot twists.

Internet (IMDB)6810 Netizens A competent horror flick that has potential

Average .. 44%

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