REVIEWS NEWS INTERVIEWS OTHER

(1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten Page   1   "Although dependable for a few good chills, 'The Uninvited' includes an ending that feels more like a cheap cop-out than a shocking resolution."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari 1.5/5 "barely delivers a single shiver"   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron D+ "There's little reason to stay invested in what quickly becomes a grueling 80-minute-long journey into the easily telegraphed and roughly acted."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf D+ "Perfunctory scares lead up to a would-be surprise plot reveal that instead carries the odor of a day-old tuna sandwich left out on the counter."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3/10 "The sex-with-daddy business serves as an underpinning to Anna's fundamental trauma."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "A mild improvement over its nigh unwatchable predecessor..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2.5/4 "The film does not always make alterations for the better—A Tale of Two Sisters left more to ponder and chew on—but it does form a cohesive narrative that seems as if actual care was paid to designing it."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B- "Even in retrospect it's not a great film, but it's better than the first 80 minutes suggested it was going to be."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "Once the pieces became clear that directors Charles & Thomas Guard were content on being M. Night Shyamalan instead of Ji-Woon Kim, it's enough to make any purist feeling tainted."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C+ "Squanders 70 strong minutes with a pointless gotcha that I don't think anyone will much appreciate."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov "As far as PG-13 Americanizations of Asian shockers go, it's about 70 percent passable"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce D "A prosaic thriller that needed a touch of visual poetry to make the grade...Kim's original is far scarier; come to think of it, so is Lewis Allen's The Uninvited from 1944."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "The Uninvited is a flawed production, but gratifying in the way it delivers."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "American remake of Korean horror film is violent but dull."   Common Sense Media   James Rocchi 5/10 "Suffers from a meekness -- its scares never dig deep and are more sensational than disturbing, and its storyline has been modified to something more conventional."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 58/100 "What stands out about the production above all else is the quality of the casting."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 4/10 "...slow and plodding and very, very familiar."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 2/5 "has more in common with David S. Goyer's stinker The Unborn that we saw several weeks ago. If only it had been shot in 3D, then we might have had a gimmick to enjoy"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C "...like most English language remakes of Asian horror subtlety takes a back seat to bludgeoning."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "It's hard to believe it took two directors, British brothers Charles and Thomas Guard, and three screenwriters to make this vapid remake of... [the] insidiously unnerving A Tale of Two Sisters/Janghwa, Hongryeon (2003)."   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh "[E]ven when it's not telegraphing its secrets, it kinda is, anyway, in its helplessness to hide that it's cheating..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "The more clever turns retained from the first film end up playing as gimmicky."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 1/4 "Arriving at least two years after the Asian-horror-remake craze subsided, The Uninvited delivers a spooky-stepmom saga free of invention."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 ". . .one of those movies that opens in January, makes a few quick bucks from kids who will see virtually any PG-13 horror item that comes along and is then completely forgotten by February."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "A Tale of Two Sisters creates a strong atmosphere of mystery, but never quite manages to fool us with all of the red herrings along the way."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3.5/5 "Actually one of the best Asia-to-America adaptations since way back when The Ring (or was it The Grudge?) first got the ball rolling."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg "No match for the original...But it stands on its own as a decent popcorn movie..."   ESplatter   Steve Biodrowski 3/10 "All it has to distinguish itself from all the other J-Horror and K-Horror remakes and knock-offs is a surprisingly effective against-type starring role and a surpassingly horrid ending."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten Page   1