Movie Review

The Uninvited (2009)

Reviewed by Adam Markovitz | Jan 29, 2009

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EW's GRADE

D-

Details Release Date: Jan 30, 2009; Rated: PG-13; Length: 87 Minutes; Genre: Horror; With: Elizabeth Banks

Image credit: Kimberley French

Mommy, um...Dearest? Emily Browning has wicked stepmother issues in The Uninvited

In The Uninvited an unstable teen (Emily Browning) suspects her mom was killed by her dad's hot new fiancée (Elizabeth Banks, with cleavage far perkier than her TV-movie line readings). 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: Their frights tend to loiter onscreen just long enough for us to see that they aren't all that scary in the first place. D-

Originally posted Jan 29, 2009 Published in issue #1034 Feb 13, 2009 Order article reprints

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