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The story revolves around a troubled teenaged girl, Anna Ivers. Anna's terminally ill mother Lilian was killed in a house fire and the incident caused Anna to have psychological problems that she was admitted to a psychiatric facility for after a suicide attempt. A year after the incident Anna is released by the chief psychiatrist who tells her that she is ready to move on. Anna returns home to her family and into a somewhat tense relationship with Rachel, her deceased mothers former nurse and now her father Steven's partner. |
The story revolves around a troubled teenaged girl, Anna Ivers. Anna's terminally ill mother Lilian was killed in a house fire and the incident caused Anna to have psychological problems that she was admitted to a psychiatric facility for after a suicide attempt. A year after the incident Anna is released by the chief psychiatrist who tells her that she is ready to move on. Anna returns home to her family and into a somewhat tense relationship with Rachel, her deceased mothers former nurse and now her father Steven's partner. |
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Anna continues to have nightmares and visions relating to her mothers death and those of three small children. When she tells her older sister Alex about them they begin to believe that Rachel murdered their mother. She gradually remembers pieces of the night their mother died but not the whole story. Anna and Alex come to believe Rachel isn't who she says she is. After discovering no record of her on the national nurse register and a suspicious pearl necklace they believe she is a woman named Mildred Kemp. Mildred Kemp was a nanny who killed three small children |
Anna continues to have nightmares and visions relating to her mothers death and those of three small children. When she tells her older sister Alex about them they begin to believe that Rachel murdered their mother. She gradually remembers pieces of the night their mother died but not the whole story. Anna and Alex come to believe Rachel isn't who she says she is. After discovering no record of her on the national nurse register and a suspicious pearl necklace they believe she is a woman named Mildred Kemp. Mildred Kemp was a nanny who killed three small children because she wanted to be with their father whose wife had died earlier on. Anna and Alex think that Rachel/Mildred is repeating her past by trying to kill her and her sister to get their father alone. A series of events occur throughout the movie, leading the viewer to think that Rachel is in fact Mildred. Anna tries to prove the truth about Rachel to her father and after a confrontation with Rachel she goes to the Police. The Sheriff is skeptical of Anna's theory and later he and Rachel sedate Anna and bring her home. |
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After coming home Rachel carries Anna upstairs to her room and starts dressing her for bed. Anna believes Rachel is trying to kill her but she blacks out. The next scene starts with Anna waking up after being sedated by Rachel. She wanders through her house looking for Rachel and Alex. She notices that there is blood all over the floor. She goes outside, and sees Alex standing in the driveway, bloody and holding a knife. Alex tells Anna that she had to do it and Anna opens the dumpster that has blood dripping out of it. Anna sees Rachel in the dumpster, dead from stab wounds. Anna and Alex hug each other and Anna tells her that everything is going to be okay. Just then, their father drives up and sees them covered in blood. He asks what happened and Anna tells Alex to tell their father what happened. |
After coming home Rachel carries Anna upstairs to her room and starts dressing her for bed. Anna believes Rachel is trying to kill her but she blacks out. The next scene starts with Anna waking up after being sedated by Rachel. She wanders through her house looking for Rachel and Alex. She notices that there is blood all over the floor. She goes outside, and sees Alex standing in the driveway, bloody and holding a knife. Alex tells Anna that she had to do it and Anna opens the dumpster that has blood dripping out of it. Anna sees Rachel in the dumpster, dead from stab wounds. Anna and Alex hug each other and Anna tells her that everything is going to be okay. Just then, their father drives up and sees them covered in blood. He asks what happened and Anna tells Alex to tell their father what happened. |
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| The Uninvited | |
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| Directed by | The Guard Brothers |
| Written by | Original screenplay: Kim Jee-Woon Screenplay Craig Rosenberg Doug Miro Carlo Bernard |
| Produced by | Michael Grillo Ivan Reitman Tom Pollock Walter F. Parkes Laurie MacDonald Riyoko Tanaka |
| Starring | Emily Browning Arielle Kebbel Elizabeth Banks David Strathairn Maya Massar |
| Cinematography | Daniel Landin |
| Edited by | Jim Page Christian Wagner |
| Music by | Christopher Young |
| Distributed by | DreamWorks Paramount Pictures |
Release date |  January 30, 2009[1]
 March 26, 2009[2] |
Running time | 87 min. |
| Country | Template:FilmUS |
| Language | American |
| Box office | $40,563,148 |
The Uninvited is a Template:Fy American remake of the 2003 South Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters. It is unrelated to another 2003 Korean horror film and a 1944 American film of the same name.
Plot
The story revolves around a troubled teenaged girl, Anna Ivers. Anna's terminally ill mother Lilian was killed in a house fire and the incident caused Anna to have psychological problems that she was admitted to a psychiatric facility for after a suicide attempt. A year after the incident Anna is released by the chief psychiatrist who tells her that she is ready to move on. Anna returns home to her family and into a somewhat tense relationship with Rachel, her deceased mothers former nurse and now her father Steven's partner.
Anna continues to have nightmares and visions relating to her mothers death and those of three small children. When she tells her older sister Alex about them they begin to believe that Rachel murdered their mother. She gradually remembers pieces of the night their mother died but not the whole story. Anna and Alex come to believe Rachel isn't who she says she is. After discovering no record of her on the national nurse register and a suspicious pearl necklace they believe she is a woman named Mildred Kemp. Mildred Kemp was a nanny who killed three small children because she wanted to be with their father whose wife had died earlier on. Anna and Alex think that Rachel/Mildred is repeating her past by trying to kill her and her sister to get their father alone. A series of events occur throughout the movie, leading the viewer to think that Rachel is in fact Mildred. Anna tries to prove the truth about Rachel to her father and after a confrontation with Rachel she goes to the Police. The Sheriff is skeptical of Anna's theory and later he and Rachel sedate Anna and bring her home.
After coming home Rachel carries Anna upstairs to her room and starts dressing her for bed. Anna believes Rachel is trying to kill her but she blacks out. The next scene starts with Anna waking up after being sedated by Rachel. She wanders through her house looking for Rachel and Alex. She notices that there is blood all over the floor. She goes outside, and sees Alex standing in the driveway, bloody and holding a knife. Alex tells Anna that she had to do it and Anna opens the dumpster that has blood dripping out of it. Anna sees Rachel in the dumpster, dead from stab wounds. Anna and Alex hug each other and Anna tells her that everything is going to be okay. Just then, their father drives up and sees them covered in blood. He asks what happened and Anna tells Alex to tell their father what happened.
Their father is confused and asks what she is talking about. Anna tells Alex again to tell their father what happened. Her father tells her that Alex is dead and that she died the previous year in the same fire that killed their mother. Alex screams at Anna to not listen to him. Anna looks down to where she was holding Alex's hand, but she is actually holding the knife. At that moment, Anna has a full flashback of the night her mother died. After witnessing her father having sex with Rachel she filled a gas can in an attempt to burn down their house but by accident she leaves a trail of gas to the tank inside the cottage that her mother and sister where inside of when the tank exploded.
This revelation explains a number of scenes in the movie when her father and Rachel seemingly ignored Alex. It is also revealed that Matt, a young man who died under mysterious circumstances early in the movie was killed by Anna after telling her that he knew what really happened on the night her mother died. Alex has only been around as a figment of Anna's imagination and it was Anna who really murdered Rachel.
At the end of the film, Anna is arrested and taken back to the psychiatric ward. Steven tells the sheriff that Rachel changed her last name three years ago after leaving an abusive boyfriend. While at the psychiatric ward Anna's neighbor across the corridor who told all her stories to Anna stops by her door, and is shown holding the pearl necklace in her right hand. She says "Welcome home" to Anna and closes her door shut, revealing her to be the actual Mildred Kemp, as shown on her room door tag. Anna then smiles and tells her psychiatrist that she did what he told her and finished what she started.
Cast
- Emily Browning as Anna Ivers
- Arielle Kebbel as Alex Ivers
- Elizabeth Banks as Rachel Summers
- David Strathairn as Steven Ivers
- Jesse Moss as Matt Hendricks
- Maya Massar as Lilian Ivers
- Kevin McNulty as Sheriff Emery
- Lex Burnham as Iris Wright
- Danny Bristol as Samuel Wright
- Matthew Bristol as David Wright
- Don S. Davis as Mr. Henson
- Heather Doerksen as Mildred Kemp
- Dean Paul Gibson as Dr. Silberling
Development
In 2002, producers Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald produced the hit horror/thriller, The Ring, a remake of the Japanese film Ringu. They subsequently produced the film’s successful sequel The Ring Two in 2005. Since first starting this new cycle of Asian horror film adaptations, Parkes and MacDonald searched for a project they felt was as ingeniously conceived and executed as The Ring, and finally found it when producer Roy Lee brought the original Korean hit movie on which The Uninvited is based to their attention.
As A Tale of Two Sisters was playing in US theaters, directors Tom and Charlie Guard acquired the English language remake rights. The Guard Brothers studied at Cambridge before launching careers as commercial and short film directors for such clients as Nokia, Euro Disney, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. The Korean remake is their first feature film. In June 2006, DreamWorks announced that a deal had been set up for the US version, A Tale of Two Sisters (advance press materials drop the “A” from the English title). The new movie is a presentation of DreamWorks and Cold Spring Pictures (Disturbia), and is produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald (The Ring, The Ring Two) and Roy Lee. The screenplay was written by Craig Rosenberg (After the Sunset, Lost), Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard (The Great Raid).[3]
In the early of 2008, the title needed to be changed. The working title was originally A Tale of Two Sisters like its predecessor, but the final title was confirmed to be The Uninvited in an announcement made in March.[4]
The film was released to theaters on January 30, 2009.
Shooting location
The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia. Most of the film was shot at one location, a waterfront property on British Columbia's Bowen Island, a short ferry ride west from mainland Vancouver."' 'Eighty percent of the story takes place at the house, so we couldn't make the movie without the right one,' said Walter F. Parkes. It couldn't have been more important.' 'We Scouted Louisiana, an environment which both beautiful and slightly threatening. We had two houses which were terrible compromises, but both of them fell through. We had a difficult time finding anything that had both the connection to the story and the right logistical possibilities.'"
"'But then we were lucky to find in Canada a place that seemed as if it had been built for our movie,'" he continues. "'It was perfectly evocative and suggestive of a family that is both welcoming and forbidding. The fact that the house was within 30 miles of Vancouver was a greater plus than the minus of having to get everyone on boats to get them over there; water taxis and ferries are a way of life up there. In fact, I don’t remember ever having a more pleasant time on a location. Getting onto a boat and having a cup of coffee and then going up the little pier and the stairs we built, it focused us. We were isolated with one thing on our minds, which was making this movie. It was great.'"[5] However, the film's location is also set in Steveston & Richmond, British Columbia, Canada as well.
It is reported that a two-story boathouse in the film was built on the property overlooking the water just for several scenes. The cold water is rough and unappealing; it is a greenish-gray that crashes constantly and does not invite swimming.[6]
Casting
Emily Browning, a 20-year-old Australian actress, was hired to portray the lead Anna Ivers. She had originally auditioned for the role of Alex. The film is rated PG-13, and is going to be less visually gory and bloody than the original film.[6] Elizabeth Banks plays a new character, Rachel.[7] Banks based her character Rachel on Rebecca De Mornay in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.[8] "It was very important to me that every line reading I gave could be interpreted two ways," says Banks of her role, "So that when you go back through the movie you can see that."[9] David Strathairn plays the concerned father of the two girls.[10] Arielle Kebbel plays Alex Ivers, the older sister of Anna.[11]
Music
The original score for the film was composed by Christopher Young, who recorded it with a 78-piece orchestra and 20-person choir. His score features a glass harmonica, and the Yale Women's Slavic Chorus.[12]
DVD release
The film was released on DVD and Blu-Ray April 28, 2009 in the USA, and July 23, 2009 in Australia.
Reception
Critical
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 36% of critics (26 out of 72) gave favorable reviews, with the average score of 4.6/10.[13] Metacritic also score the film of 44/100 (mixed or average) from 22 reviews.[14] Bloody Disgusting gave the film 6/10[15] while on Yahoo! Movies Critical Response, the average professional critical rating was a C according to 11 reviews.[16]
Box office performance
On its opening day the film grossed $4,335,000 ranked #2 in the box office.[17] However, it finally got $10,512,000 for its opening weekend, set on the third place, opened in 2,344 theaters with an average $4,485 per theatre.[18]. The film spent 9 weeks in US cinemas, and finished with a total gross of $28,596,818[19]. The film was released on March 26, 2009 in Australia, and the film opened ranked #5, averaging $3,998 at 121 sites, for a gross of AUD$483,714. The second week it dipped 29%[20].
References
- ^ "Announcement of release date". Bloody-Disgusting.
- ^ http://www.uninvitedmovie.com/intl/au/ "The Uninvited" official Australian website
- ^ Scific Japan(December 26, 2007). "Two Brothers remake Two Sisters." Scificjapan.com. Retrieved on January 18, 2009.
- ^ "Announcement of title change". Fangoria.com.
- ^ Scific Japan (December 26, 2008). "The Perfect House." Scific Japan. Retrieved on January 18, 2009.
- ^ a b Heidi Martinuzzi(January 05, 2009). "An Invitation to the Set of The Uninvited." shocktillyoudrop.com. Retrieved on January 18, 2009.
- ^ Heidi Sam Baltrusisi(January 11, 2009). "Elizabeth Banks gets wicked in 'The Uninvited' ." Loadgun Boston. Retrieved on January 18, 2009.
- ^ "Elizabeth Banks: The Uninvited". SuicideGirls.com. 30 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-30..
- ^ "Elizabeth Banks: The Uninvited". SuicideGirls.com. 30 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-30..
- ^ Mr.Disgusting (June 22, 2007). "David Strathairn Stars Opposite Banks in 'Two Sisters' Remake ." Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved on January 18, 2009.
- ^ Arieanna Schweber (December 30, 2008). "Arielle Kebbel in “The Uninvited” ." Gil More Girl news. Retrieved on January 18, 2009.
- ^ Dan Goldwasser (2008-06-03). "Christopher Young scores the horror film The Uninvited". ScoringSessions.com. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "The Uninvited (2009) Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
- ^ "Uninvited, The DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
{{cite web}}: line feed character in|title=at position 15 (help) - ^ "The Uninvited (A Tale of Two Sisters remake): Review". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
- ^ "The Uninvited (2009): Reviews". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
- ^ "THE UNINVITED - Daily Box Office Result". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
- ^ "Weekend Box Office Results from January 30–February 1, 2009". Box Office Mojo. 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
- ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=uninvited.htm "The Uninvited" US Gross
- ^ http://urbancinefile.com.au/home/boxoffice.asp