Elizabeth Banks made a great horror victim in the 2006 B-Movie SLITHER but in a complete reversal of fortune here she is playing one helluva bitch stepmother in THE UNINVITED, the first studio feature length movie from the directing brothers Charles & Thomas Guard.
It’s a remake of the popular 2003 Korean movie A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, a movie that was an effective chiller from the peak of that awesome few years of Korean horror where you were getting six or seven genre pieces that were pissing on anything Hollywood had to offer. The movie was about two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother.
They have kept the same plot for the remake…
Everything that doesn’t involve Banks, I’m not sure I’m fond of. Most explicitly how much the 2.19 minute trailer gives away. The direction feels a little hoaky, the acting from the two young leads feels a little sloppy and the trailer is more than a little confusing to follow.
But all in all, it just looks like the typical Hollywood remake of a very good Asian horror. See MIRRORS, THE EYE, etc, if you liked those – you know what your getting yourself in for here.
THE UNINVITED opens January 30th but not until May 29th in the U.K.
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Wow, that looks incredibly bad.
I feel somewhat sorry for the people who will watch something like this instead of digging a little further and suffering the torture of reading subtitles (sarcasm of course) for a much superior movie.
There’s nothing even on the same level as the original. The cinematography is crap, the acting is crap, the colours and FX are crap.. jesus.. is this a scary episode of Dawson’s Creek or something?