The Uninvited
Tags: suspenseful

Plot synopsis:
Kang Jung-won (Park Shin-yang), an interior decorator, is overcome with inexplicable anxiety as his long-overdue wedding with Hee-eun (Yoo Sun) approaches. One evening, Jung-won falls asleep on the subway on his way home. He is barely able to wake up at the last station. As he comes round, he sees two young girls asleep on the seat next to him. He cannot wake them before he has to jump off as the train leaves the station. He arrives home to find that his wife-to-be has bought them a new metal dining table.
The next day, Jung-won is working when he hears on the radio that two young girls were found poisoned on the subway. In the course of fitting some lights in a ceiling, he is hit by falling debris and cuts his forehead. After a trip to the hospital for some stitches, he goes home to find the two dead girls seated at his new dining table.
Jung-won, who is now working on renovating a psychiatrist's office, bumps into Jung Yeon (Jun Ji-hyun), a patient on her way out of a therapy session. She has been receiving treatment after her friend, Moon Jung-sook (Kim Yeo-jin), killed both of their children a year earlier. Another accident leads to Jung-won taking Yeon back to his apartment where she too sees the apparition of the dead children.
Having been tormented by nightmares and the hallucinations, Jung-won is desperate to find out something about the apparitions that haunt him. Yeon runs away refusing to help him, so he searches through the patients' records at the clinic to find out more about her. Using the information he succeeds in persuading her to help him uncover his past. Jung-won discovers that he had been born with shamanic abilities similar to Yeon and accidentally killed his father and sister.
Unfortunately, he suffers the consequences rediscovering his past. His fiancee Hee-eun suspects that he is having an affair and leaves him. Jung-sook is convicted of the murder of Yeon's child, but she suddenly commits suicide as she is leaving the courthouse. Shocked, Yeon calls Jung-won who comes over to console her. He talks to her husband, Park Moon-sub (Park Won-sang), who suspects that it was his wife, not her dead friend, who killed their children.
Jung-won, caught up in his desire to deny his past and his fear of Yeon, turns down Yeon's cry for help when her husband tries to have her committed to a mental hospital. His refusal crushes Yeon, who throws herself off Jung-won's apartment building. Jung-won sees her as she falls. In the final scene, Jung-won sits in his dust-covered apartment. Face lined like an old man, he brings a steaming dish of food to the dining table and sits down.
His dining table is full, not with the family he had been planning but the apparitions of the two poisoned girls on the subway and Yeon.

Review: I have no idea what just happened in this movie, who most of the characters were, and I have a raging headache.
This movie left me cold, disappointed, very confused, and wishing I could have my 2 hours back.
I've been sitting here for about 15 minutes trying to figure out what the plot was supposed to be and why the director failed to notice that the final cut of this film is a nonsensical mess.
I'm terribly confused and angry, because I thought I would be watching the more recent film by the same name and my cable company failed to notice the difference.Seriously, do not waste your time on this piece of garbage..
I watched this movie on one of those days when you're ready to just sit back, relax and hopefully get treated to something really great that you just can't wait to tell somebody about.
Well...it sucked, and now I feel obligated to sit in the reviewers corner with the other disenchanted viewers who kept waiting for something, anything, to happen in this film.We generally give every film a fighting chance at least for the first 20 minutes right?
Even if it's creeping along as the characters are developed and the plot is revealed,I can usually be fairly patient, but instead I found myself clock watching till it was almost over.One of my biggest pet peeve's is the overuse of extreme darkness in a film, it's impossible to watch especially if you're watching a movie during the day, and there's ambient daylight falling on your TV.
With a four year old in the house, that means many.As far as the characters I'm a little biased since I'm a huge Colin Hay fan, I wanted him to be good in this, but the script didn't allow it.
Mr. Hay in my opinion is by far one of the most talented musicians out there however this script bound him to a mediocre at best character.I thought the main character Lee was believable and as neutral in personality as Nick's, but perhaps it was the two like personalities,the overuse of darkness, and the "baby thing" thrown in at the last minute that left me with a feeling akin to buying that gotta have it gizmo thing from a late night info-mercial only to be sadly disappointed when you finally open the box.All in all I think some good talent got sent straight to video on a slow train to nowhere..
What's starts out with an interesting situation devolves into one of the stupidest hackneyed menu of random "scary" stereotypical imagery and scenes ever.Before I watched it, I noted the description, something like "woman with mental problems...".
it's decent up until that time) I'm wondering what drugs those reviewers are on, or how much they were paid to write false reviews, or if the reviews were all written by the film makers directly.Directly after the movie ended I logged onto IMDb to investigate such false allegations of a good movie and lo and behold after I started actually reading the reviews (and not just look at the ratings) I discover that they can't possibly be talking about THIS movie.If I do one positive thing before I die, if might be to lower your expectations about this movie enough so that you expect crap, but come away pleased that there was indeed *some* good stuff about it..
Completely confused I sat watching this painful mess of a movie trying to figure out how I couldn't possibly have remembered " the uninvited" as being such a horrible movie.
I mean in the making of this movie, the apparently did not get one little tiny bit of a care as to how horribly bad acting was being played out.
Yes the movie storyline itself is horrible, but the acting is downright the worst I have ever seen!
Watching this movie just made me angry!
Apparently they knew that once the word got out that no one would waste their time with this movie.
So the only way to get an audience was to steal the name of another movie that had came out at about the exact same time.
Thumbs Up, Much Better than Most of the Horror Movies You See Now a Days.
well i saw this movie on television when i was bored and it was quite late in my room alone then this movie started i first mixed it with the other famous uninvited (2009), as i started watchin' it thinking' that i'm watchin' that famous one i really began to like it after a while i knew it was some other movie but it still had my interest, and the style they started this movie was also very interestin' tellin' some woman's past how she got some phobia n now she can't see in open space n stuff, well i hav to say it did'nt disappoint me that much as i was really scared at some moments, really got my interest thou there were some defects in the script could have been much better if they had taken the suspense and intensity till the end but it was'nt really there till the end.
still i would say it is a pretty interestin', scary and enjoyable movie and i i'll suggest u guys to watch this movie with an open mind don't expect anythin' or make your predictions about the story..
It's an independent production that looks and sounds like a ghost story but in fact is an aimless time waster, shot in a murky old house in the half-light for the most part, and charting the non-adventures of a young woman suffering from crippling agoraphobia.THE UNINVITED is one of those films that makes zero sense to most people watching.
There's a jumble of characters in the script, some bizarre, some very ordinary, and a handful of predictable scare scenes to make this a horror film, but other than that I didn't really have a clue what I was watching - or want to know.
I don't mind a little ambiguity in cinema, but when a film is as wrong-headed as this one then it becomes an exercise in time wasting..
Don't loose your time this movie is not watchable i have nothing more to say its not even worth the 3 i gave it 2/10 the plot sucks the actors suck the lighting is horrible you ll get your eyes damage so try to avoid this crap or at least play it to fast forward not to loose valuable time from your life the ghost story started to be annoying after the paranormal bullshit I just wondering there so many haunted houses in USA with ghosts and staff that researchers watching out night and day why people don't give us movies with real stories from people got murdered and stuff would be more interesting stuff to watch than this one -the ghost stories to be watchable must been based on real info's surrounded by mystery and not crap like this who will gonna be scared from this one?
Like most of the reviews I too watched this based on the wrong movie information from satellite or the movie channel.
It was a scary psychological thriller movie.
With close up shots, the dark lighting and scary music I thought it was much scarier than slasher flicks or very far fetched stories.
It's plot was all over the place and confusing at times.
Most of the movie was filmed in very low lighting.
Seriously, if you are considering watching this movie, don't waste your time.
I have never reviewed a movie before, but this one was so bad that I had to speak out.
While trying to recover from a bout of agoraphobia, a woman finds that the ghostly visions she's experiencing around her house may have more sinister motives than just haunting her.One of the many variations with this particular title, this one happens to be an incredibly slow-moving and what initially-appears lifeless ghost story, more about freaky flash visions or dreams rather than any out-and-out horrors before it turns it around in the second half and delivers some really solid hauntings in that part.
The early set-up is rather fine, but far too much battling her fears which resorts to nothing in particular happening as well as the constant and rather confusing addition of the others mistreating her condition, which feels too forced and entirely disingenuous to everything else going on.
A little too much plot twisting is done in this section as well, with a lot of stuff that's just not needed to move the story along, and they're could've been a little more to do with the ghosts' involvements going for a kill now and then since there's not a lot of that going on, but it trades it in for a little bit more suspense and becomes more watchable as it goes along.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and children-in-jeopardy..
I saw this movie on IFC, originally thinking I was watching the 2009 film of the same title (thanks, cable company for mis-labeling the description!) The beginning was interesting but the rest of the movie fell flat.
Although I like Marguerite Moreau, in my opinion very few movies can be successful with only one actor on screen for the majority of the film (e.g., Cast Away) and this one is no exception.
There were certainly scary moments, if you are into that sort of thing, but even those were very predicable - I almost always knew when to look away or turn down the volume to avoid being bombarded by yet another scary face.The plot simply didn't go anywhere and the film just dragged and dragged.
But that whole storyline was inadequately presented and was not resolved.The movie seemed to tease the viewer with the beginnings of ideas but failed to follow through, as in a poorly supported essay or thesis.
There wasn't enough of a presence of her in the movie to make the viewer engage in her character.
At the end I found myself wondering, what the heck was this movie about?
Although I did not enjoy the movie I was hoping for some kind of resolution, something to take away, some bottom line I could gather as to what the film was about.
I am a fan of films that weave the plot with enough ambiguity to allow the viewer to make up his own mind and draw his own conclusions.
You are left guessing all the way through, and worse, at the end, you don't even care.Bottom line - if you like psychological thrillers, horror movies, ghost stories, occult films, or movies in general, stay away.
It was a failure as a scary movie or any other genre of film..
I had high hopes to see a decent independent film with Ms. Moreau as an interesting female lead who is recovering from her unique phobia of big spaces.
First part was fine, showing her issue through the lens of a documentary, and how she has overcome her fear and is living in a nice cabin house in the mountains with her new husband.If they had focused the movie on her phobia (which she played effectively) and the scary old woman that triggered it (and somehow killed her childhood friend?
Don't look for explanations because they give none.Technically speaking, Marguerite Moreau is a pretty good actress although for most of the movie she just runs around scared and crying and hiding.
The young female was kind of bad although in her defense the writers mostly made her act like a teen brat who waves a gun around and demands her baby back.
The lighting was irritating because many scenes were so dark that rather than scare me they just confused me.To sum up, the writers did a nice job introducing the set-up but then proceeded to destroy everything by never tying up loose ends and leaving you remembering only the bad effects and confusing plot.
Don't watch this film.
For some reason I recorded this and it sat on my DVR queue for six months, but I finally got around to watching it two days before Halloween, in the hopes that it met my need for a good scary movie.
The film starts with a discussion of Lee's pathological fear of space.
So, she's alone in the house, and some kind of ghostly things start happening.
Also, the story is confused because some of Lee's visions are her own personal demons while others are the spirits of the house.
On the whole, there's a lot of promise in this film but it sadly gets wasted by an incoherent plot.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
This dull as dishwater excuse for a ghost horror mystery is one of the most boring things I've ever seen!.
For me, it wasn't actually that this was a terrifically bad movie it was just a terrifically dull and boring one.
The movie seemed to play a curious game against time...every second just stretching on longer than it should, while me the poor viewer just kept on waiting for something to happen...
It barely had one, but here's the plot!: This girl once had a weird phobia, she got herself cured of it, some guy made a documentary about it, they got married and moved to a log cabin somewhere that just happened to be haunted.
He leaps out of nowhere and wails on her, it's actually a little >scary!< She shoots the ghost dead(?) and goes back to Lee. They reconcile.
Her husband returns from wherever he's been throughout the movie, looking for her.
While he appears to check out some panties in the basement, granny gross ghost comes back and grins at Lee like a retard for about 5 mins.
Lee finally drags herself from under the bed and stands up to the ghost, thereby conquering her fear, it really should be awesome or something but by this point you just don't care because the movie has completely devolved into a horrendously dull and confusing mess.
Lee looks at the reunited ghost family of her crazy friend, chain ghost, and baby.
She shoots them all dead(?!?) Lee stands there with the baby, or the baby's ghost, oh god I don't know!
The most interesting part of this movie is the phobia.
Yes, the other movie THE UNINVITED is better.