Review of The Uninvited

You ever watch those movies where the whole time you're sitting there thinking, 'ya, ya, this is so predictable,' only to reach the end and have your mind blown? Because this is basically that movie in a nutshell. If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it. Then come back and read this, cause selfless advertising, and also spoilers.

So this movie starts off pretty odd. It's our main character describing one of her frequent nightmares to her therapist/doctor. It's about her going into the woods and finding a dead little girl in a trash bag, and every time the little girl says, "don't go home." So what does our dream character do? Runs straight to her house. She finds her mother, who at the time was bedridden, laying down and ringing her bell for help. So, she has to leave her mothers little personal cottage (This is a very rich family by the way, and makes sense if you watch it.) to go up the hill to where her father is. But right as she's about to find him, her mothers cottage blows up and she wakes up from the dream.

Now, I'm not just restating this for the sake of summary. This is a pretty damn smart strategy used by the film maker. Us, as the unknowing audience, watch this and think, "alright, backstory, that's cool. But really they're already laying the background for a twist. Not only that, but they follow it up with a few key phrases. The first is her roommate, who has two important lines; "Who am I going to tell my stories to?" and "You'll never be fixed. They could never fix me." Which again, us as readers are just thinking whatever, it's just a crazy girl spewing nonsense.

But damn. This ending. I got to the part where our main characters sister murdered the stepmother, who's cliche role also aided in the twist, and thought, "oh, now they're gonna explain how the step mom was actually good and how the sister was evil or demented," or some shit like that. But no. No, no, no, no. They pulled out all the stops on us, going straight back to the beginning. The main character, who's point of view we trusted and relied on as reality, was completely twisted the whole time. There never even was a sister, she died the night of the explosion that killed her mother. The whole time the main character had been playing innocent, confused by her own delusions and visions, when really she just wanted to kill the step mom for getting her dad to sleep with her.

Then, to put a bow on it, she gets back to the asylum only for the doctor to ask nicely, "did you finish what you started?"

Of course, our character now being as demented as she is, replies, "Yes, I finished what I started."

Pretty twisted story, eh? With that in mind, I think I'd give it a seven out of ten pens. Until next time, peace.

-Ink