2009Horror
Allow me to summarize my feeling for this movie in 4 words: stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.
This review will contain SPOILES so be warned if you planned on wasting 90 minutes of your time with this movie.
The plot is this. Committed to a mental hospital after her mother's tragic death, grieving teenager Anna discovers upon her release that her father plans to marry his deceased wife's former nurse , a woman who might not have the best intentions. In fact her and her sister begin to think the woman actually killed their mother. So for the first 80 minutes of the movie you follow the sisters around as the piece together the clues as to what happened to their mother and being to discover how evil and murderous their new step mom is. At that point it is pretty formulaic but is entertaining. But in the last 10 minutes there is a plot twist, a plot twist that was really stupid and made me hate the movie. Right as the climax happens, which is the step mom trying to kill Anna but her sister stopping the step mom and actually killing her because no one would believe that she was evil, the plot twist happens. It turns out that Anna's sister has been dead the whole time, she was killed in the accident that killed their mother. And it turns out it wasn't the evil step mom who killed their mother it was all Anna's fault. Then through a 10 second series of flashbacks you see that basically everything you watched for the first 80 minutes never actually happened. Everything in the movie was an illusion inside of Anna's mind and nothing you saw happen was actually real. So like the good characters you grew to like and the bad characters you hated, neither were actually like that because nothing they showed actually happened. So stupid, and a waste of my time.
I had a whole bunch of complaints about this movie before the twist, but since the twist basically erases everything that happens prior there is really no need to complain about them. One thing I will complain about is Anna sees visions of like creepy dead looking children all movie, telling her the step mom is evil, but those kids have absolutely nothing to do with anything in the plot. There are no children killed before or after the twist. They basically put them in the movie to make it more creepy and have them jump out for cheap scares, which is so lame. "OMG the creepy ghost girl dropped a glass of milke and it turned to blood!!!! OMG so scary!!!" Oh wait, it has nothing to do with anything and is fucking pointless.
I will give the movie some credit for a few things. All the actors did a pretty good job. The movie also looked nice, not relying on too many effects. And Emma Browning who plays Anna is pretty cute, she looks really young but is actually 20 so it is not creepy for me to say that. She looked really cute in Lemony Snicket's too (never saw that movie, just from the trailers) she was 15 then so it might be creepy for me to say she was cute in that.
If you want to waste your time on a movie that exists solely to waste your time, and have what you watched be made pointless by a stupid plot twist, be my guest. But when it comes to horror movies or movies with plot twists, there are about a thousand ones better than The Uninvited.
2 out of 5 Stars
Factoid: This is a remake of the Korean movie The Tale of Two Sisters. That movie was pretty critically acclaimed, but if it is similar to The Univited I am starting to wonder why.
This review will contain SPOILES so be warned if you planned on wasting 90 minutes of your time with this movie.
The plot is this. Committed to a mental hospital after her mother's tragic death, grieving teenager Anna discovers upon her release that her father plans to marry his deceased wife's former nurse , a woman who might not have the best intentions. In fact her and her sister begin to think the woman actually killed their mother. So for the first 80 minutes of the movie you follow the sisters around as the piece together the clues as to what happened to their mother and being to discover how evil and murderous their new step mom is. At that point it is pretty formulaic but is entertaining. But in the last 10 minutes there is a plot twist, a plot twist that was really stupid and made me hate the movie. Right as the climax happens, which is the step mom trying to kill Anna but her sister stopping the step mom and actually killing her because no one would believe that she was evil, the plot twist happens. It turns out that Anna's sister has been dead the whole time, she was killed in the accident that killed their mother. And it turns out it wasn't the evil step mom who killed their mother it was all Anna's fault. Then through a 10 second series of flashbacks you see that basically everything you watched for the first 80 minutes never actually happened. Everything in the movie was an illusion inside of Anna's mind and nothing you saw happen was actually real. So like the good characters you grew to like and the bad characters you hated, neither were actually like that because nothing they showed actually happened. So stupid, and a waste of my time.
I had a whole bunch of complaints about this movie before the twist, but since the twist basically erases everything that happens prior there is really no need to complain about them. One thing I will complain about is Anna sees visions of like creepy dead looking children all movie, telling her the step mom is evil, but those kids have absolutely nothing to do with anything in the plot. There are no children killed before or after the twist. They basically put them in the movie to make it more creepy and have them jump out for cheap scares, which is so lame. "OMG the creepy ghost girl dropped a glass of milke and it turned to blood!!!! OMG so scary!!!" Oh wait, it has nothing to do with anything and is fucking pointless.
I will give the movie some credit for a few things. All the actors did a pretty good job. The movie also looked nice, not relying on too many effects. And Emma Browning who plays Anna is pretty cute, she looks really young but is actually 20 so it is not creepy for me to say that. She looked really cute in Lemony Snicket's too (never saw that movie, just from the trailers) she was 15 then so it might be creepy for me to say she was cute in that.
If you want to waste your time on a movie that exists solely to waste your time, and have what you watched be made pointless by a stupid plot twist, be my guest. But when it comes to horror movies or movies with plot twists, there are about a thousand ones better than The Uninvited.
2 out of 5 Stars
Factoid: This is a remake of the Korean movie The Tale of Two Sisters. That movie was pretty critically acclaimed, but if it is similar to The Univited I am starting to wonder why.
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