The Uninvited
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: January 30, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
12
Negative:
5
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38
PremiereRichard Chester
The climax is the only thing for which the rest of this flick exists. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGlenn Whipp
Without dwelling on the limited abilities of novice British filmmakers Tom and Charles Guard (a.k.a. the Guard Brothers) -- who seem to have divvied up duties here by having one sibling focus exclusively on close-up shots of doorknobs and the other oversee everything else -- the movie's fatal flaw is the undeveloped relationship between the two sisters. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
A brutally inane movie. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineJeremy Wheeler
It's best to line The Uninvited right up on the soon-to-be-forgotten shelves next to the now third-generation Asian remakes and wait for the next effective foreign genre fare for Hollywood to butcher and rehash. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyAdam Markovitz
Horror standbys like mangled corpses and stone-faced children pop up regularly, but sibling directors Charles and Thomas Guard haven't quite nailed the genre's rhythms. Read full review
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