The Univited

Hmmm.

I'm a little bit lukewarm to this film. I found it very predictable. There was one scene which made me realise
she caused the fire
very early on, although I didn't guess that
Alex was dead
.

I think the film should have gone down either the horror or the thriller route and not tried the combination, and I think the story suffered from the supernatural elements.
Okay, not supernatural it turns out, just figments ... but I think it marred the story.

But nevertheless, I did enjoy it :)
 
but ten out of ten aobut the originality

i thought something was up when her friend came to see her and her sister swam away but didnt hit the nail on the head. nice to have a twist in a film where did not know one was coming:cool:
 
Give the original credit for most of the
twist
please, A Tale of Two Sisters. The original created the
sister dead angle and so on
.

Saying that, I still enjoyed the remake and it did add on its own elements to the originals
twist
.
 
I saw it today. I guessed pretty early on that
she was the one who caused the fire but didn't think of the sister being dead thing.

Quite a few bits made me laugh that I don't think were meant to be funny. Oops:o
 
I never guessed anything but thats because I am not a sap that tries to work everything out and ruin films for myself before I have watched them
 
I was going to point that out :) I haven't seen it but the review I read said that although it is an ok modern thiriller/horror the original is far superior.


Emily Browning has great lips :D Also the other girl who was in Grudge2 is ok. She looks like a barmaid in town.
 
The amount of times I've seen people not know the film they are watching is a remake... it's quite sad that the original doesn't get a look in for the most part or gets seen first.

:p
 
A Tale of Two Sisters was an idea taken from an Korean story/fairytale and worked into a full film, same as the film you mentioned. Both take from the story. It's not a remake of the film. If you read the fairytale you will see it's very different to the films also.

The Uninvited is a remake of A Tale of Two Sisters on the other hand, not original in that sense.
 
On this note, I thought it was highly amusing that I didnt realise it was a remake of Tale of Two Sisters until the ending (specifically the trail of blood through the entire house was when my brain started going 'hmmm this is familiar'). Then I was like 'hey wasnt that the twist in...OHHHHH' and it all clicked that it was the same film. I think A Tale of Two Sisters was so f'd up that I never got it, and thus didn't really get the story to connect it to the remake. It's also 3 years since I saw it, which doesn't help. This version is definitely easier to follow though.
 
I thought it was rubbish. Didn't make me jump once, and i didn't feel tense at all. The story was weak and the big sisters acting was terrible.

The whole "talking to a ghost, that nobody realises is a ghost, and then at the last minute it's revealed that she's a ghost" ending has been done to death. It's 10 years since the exact same thing happened to Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense...Original, i think not.

Hollywood neeRAB to think up better ideas than just remaking j-horrors.
 
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