The Uninvited starts as Lee (Marguerite Moreau) & her documentary maker husband Nick (Colin Hay) set off for a shoot that will solve all their monetary problems, Nick's production assistant Helena (Brittany Curran) also comes along. The documentary shoot is taking place at an old isolated log cabin where several people were found murdered seven years previously, however there are no reports of any ghost's or anything silly like that. When she was younger Lee suffered from a rare phobia, a phobia of space & Lee always had to be by something like a wall & she couldn't go outside either, Lee met Nick while he was filming a documentary on her recovery but while in the cabin alone the phobia of open space starts to come back. Lee sees & hears strange things & Nick also acts suspiciously, is the cabin in fact haunted? What is Nick & Helena up to? Will Lee ever be able to go outside again?
Written & directed by Bob Badway when you search for The Uninvited on the IMDb it brings up no less than fourteen results, probably the most well known of these is Dreamworks horror film The Uninvited (2009) which was actually a remake of the South Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) & the classic Ray Milland shocker The Uninvited (1944) also show's up (I have seen neither of those, for what it's worth) but if your looking for this particular film then read on & try to let me convince you not to waste 90 minutes of your life watching this. Once again the films failings come from a crap script that was written around a low budget in a 'how can we make the cheapest film we can' sort of way. The only piece of originality The Uninvited has going for it is the rare phobia the central character has but she is cured shortly after the film starts & while it comes back to an extent nothing is made of it & by the end sh is completely cured again as she walks down the road, to be honest if you remove this phobia from the script the film would still be exactly the same as it has no significant purpose. The plot is awful, nothing is explained in any detail or to any great satisfaction, why did Nick take Lee to the cabin anyway? Lee's presence served no purpose & in fact only complicated matters more. Who did Nick strike a deal with? And for what? Nick had to pay for the baby anyway so he couldn't have been broke. Who was the guy in chains? A Ghost? A ghost that drives a car & is easily distracted by a train going past? Why did he & that old woman want a baby anyway? Who were they? Where were they going to get all this money that they promised Nick? Why did the deal have to take place in a 'spiritually charged' cabin? Why did Helena change her mind? Just what the hell is The Uninvited all about? The pace is excruciatingly slow, nothing & I mean absolutely nothing happens for the first hour & the supposed twist which never really comes takes up the last ten minutes. The seemingly random ending has Helena come back to life & drool blood, since when did it turn into a zombie flick? The the thirty seconds, that's when. There are only three people in the whole thing really, the character's are awful & the clichéd haunted house shenanigan's like hearing noises are just plain dull & boring. I hate this film, I think it's awful in every way & makes no sense & is seemingly put together at random with no regard for coherency or logic or viewer entertainment.
Shot on video mainly in one single location The Uninvited looks cheap, there is no visual style & I suspect most would suffer from extreme boredom rather than extreme fright while trying to watch this. Forget about any decent exploitation either, there's one shot of an old woman eating a babies severed arm but otherwise this is bone dry as far as blood content goes & there's no nudity either. I am not sure if this was meant to be some sort of Rosemary's Baby (1968) rip-off but the plot is so loose & the twist so unclear I couldn't really decide, I suspect it was but that the makers just screwed it up big time & we all ended up with a total mess of a film.
Obviously shot on the cheap this looks like the direct to video bargain bin crap you would expect it to be, basically it's ugly. The acting is bad, Colin Hay as Nick is awful why the guy playing that zombie ghost thing was terrible too.
The Uninvited is an awful direct to video low budget supernatural horror film with an almost unfathomable twist & the main characteristic about the leading lady feels like an afterthought to pad things out & has no real significance on the plot other than to keep her in one location. The Uninvited is definitely an unwelcome guest as far as I am concerned, do yourself a favour & keep it uninvited & away from your home entertainment system.
Written & directed by Bob Badway when you search for The Uninvited on the IMDb it brings up no less than fourteen results, probably the most well known of these is Dreamworks horror film The Uninvited (2009) which was actually a remake of the South Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) & the classic Ray Milland shocker The Uninvited (1944) also show's up (I have seen neither of those, for what it's worth) but if your looking for this particular film then read on & try to let me convince you not to waste 90 minutes of your life watching this. Once again the films failings come from a crap script that was written around a low budget in a 'how can we make the cheapest film we can' sort of way. The only piece of originality The Uninvited has going for it is the rare phobia the central character has but she is cured shortly after the film starts & while it comes back to an extent nothing is made of it & by the end sh is completely cured again as she walks down the road, to be honest if you remove this phobia from the script the film would still be exactly the same as it has no significant purpose. The plot is awful, nothing is explained in any detail or to any great satisfaction, why did Nick take Lee to the cabin anyway? Lee's presence served no purpose & in fact only complicated matters more. Who did Nick strike a deal with? And for what? Nick had to pay for the baby anyway so he couldn't have been broke. Who was the guy in chains? A Ghost? A ghost that drives a car & is easily distracted by a train going past? Why did he & that old woman want a baby anyway? Who were they? Where were they going to get all this money that they promised Nick? Why did the deal have to take place in a 'spiritually charged' cabin? Why did Helena change her mind? Just what the hell is The Uninvited all about? The pace is excruciatingly slow, nothing & I mean absolutely nothing happens for the first hour & the supposed twist which never really comes takes up the last ten minutes. The seemingly random ending has Helena come back to life & drool blood, since when did it turn into a zombie flick? The the thirty seconds, that's when. There are only three people in the whole thing really, the character's are awful & the clichéd haunted house shenanigan's like hearing noises are just plain dull & boring. I hate this film, I think it's awful in every way & makes no sense & is seemingly put together at random with no regard for coherency or logic or viewer entertainment.
Shot on video mainly in one single location The Uninvited looks cheap, there is no visual style & I suspect most would suffer from extreme boredom rather than extreme fright while trying to watch this. Forget about any decent exploitation either, there's one shot of an old woman eating a babies severed arm but otherwise this is bone dry as far as blood content goes & there's no nudity either. I am not sure if this was meant to be some sort of Rosemary's Baby (1968) rip-off but the plot is so loose & the twist so unclear I couldn't really decide, I suspect it was but that the makers just screwed it up big time & we all ended up with a total mess of a film.
Obviously shot on the cheap this looks like the direct to video bargain bin crap you would expect it to be, basically it's ugly. The acting is bad, Colin Hay as Nick is awful why the guy playing that zombie ghost thing was terrible too.
The Uninvited is an awful direct to video low budget supernatural horror film with an almost unfathomable twist & the main characteristic about the leading lady feels like an afterthought to pad things out & has no real significance on the plot other than to keep her in one location. The Uninvited is definitely an unwelcome guest as far as I am concerned, do yourself a favour & keep it uninvited & away from your home entertainment system.