Anna Ivers (The Uninvited)

**Anna Ivers** (Emily Browning) is the main protagonist and plot-twist main villainess from the 2009 film, *The Uninvited*.

## Backstory and Introduction

The film's opening introduced Anna Ivers as a young woman who had been in a psychiatric institution for 10 months after the passing of her mother via a boathouse fire. She informed her psychiatrist, Dr. Silberling, that she had no memory of her mother's death, though bits and pieces were starting to emerge, and it was during the opening that Anna was discharged and picked up by her father, Steven Ivers, but not before she was taunted by a female patient who swore that Anna would be back at the institution. After arriving home, Anna reunited with her older sister, Alex Ivers, with both siblings venting about their father's relationship with Rachel Summers, who was a live-in nurse for their mother.

Anna also encountered her boyfriend, Matt Hendricks, who stated that he had seen what happened on the night of her mother's death. While out with Rachel at a nearby store, Anna approached Matt and arranged a meeting with him for later that evening, though Matt was nowhere to be found. The film saw Anna plagued by horrific visions, with one of them being Matt appearing to her with a badly broken back, and it was the following morning that Matt was suddenly found deceased--his back being broken.

Anna and Alex later perform an online search for Rachel Summers, and they later come to the conclusion that she is actually Mildred Kemp, a deranged villainess who worked as a nanny before murdering her charge's three children. Attempts to tell Steven fall on deaf ears, and regarding Anna, she was on the receiving end of two attempts by Rachel to sedate her, with the second time being successful and coming after Anna's attempt to tell the police about Rachel also failed. Anna later spotted Alex with a knife, and after waking up from her sedation, Anna sees Alex covered in blood, revealing that she killed Rachel and tossed her body in the dumpster.

## Reveal

    However, when Anna told Steven about her sister killing Rachel in self-defense, Steven revealed a shocking truth: Alex died in the fire 10 months ago along with their mother. In addition, Alex was gone and Anna was covered in blood while holding the knife, revealing that she was the one who murdered Rachel. A series of flashbacks revealed everything: after brushing off Matt's advances, Anna left the party and returned to the house, only to find Steven having sex with Rachel--while Steven's wife (Alex and Anna's mother) was bedridden due to her terminal illness. Enraged over Steven and Rachel's actions, Anna turned heel and planned to burn the house down with the illicit couple in it, beginning her plan by filling a watering can with gasoline as she was approached by Alex.

After the door slammed, a candle fell over and ignited a trail of gasoline that reached the boathouse, resulting in the fire that killed her mother and her sister. Anna had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder, which caused her to have no memory of her actions in the 10 months she was institutionalized, and following her release, Anna continued to have hallucinations--with Alex being one of them. After Matt informed Anna that he had known what happened, the evil Anna arranged the meeting for later that evening so she could kill Matt, doing so by shoving him over a cliff. In addition, the villainess grabbed a knife and stabbed Rachel to death in her bedroom, doing so after envisioning Rachel as an evil murderess who killed Anna's mother, among others.

The film ended with Anna arrested by the police and back in the same institution, where she informed Dr. Silberling that she "finished what she started." The final scene saw Anna welcomed back by the same female patient, who was revealed as the actual Mildred Kemp.

## Trivia

* Emily Browning later played evil femme fatale Natessa on *American Horror Stories*.