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The Uninvited is a 2009 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, both of which have the same name.
[edit] PlotThe 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 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 a blood trail leading from her room, down the stairs, through the house, and outside to the garbage dumpster. She cautiously opens the lid and lifts away some trash bags to reveal the mangled and bloodied corpse of Rachel. Anna than turns to see Alex standing in the driveway, bloody and holding a knife. Alex tells Anna that she had to do it. The girls hug each other and Anna tells Alex 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 were 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. [edit] Cast
[edit] DevelopmentIn 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. [edit] Shooting locationThe 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 set in Maine. 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] [edit] CastingEmily 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] [edit] MusicMain article: The Uninvited (soundtrack) 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] [edit] Home mediaThe film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 28, 2009 in the U.S., and July 23, 2009 in Australia. [edit] Reception[edit] CriticalThe 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] [edit] Box office performanceOn its opening day the film grossed $4,335,000 ranked number two 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 nine weeks in U.S. 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 at the fifth position, averaging $3,998 at 121 sites, for a gross of AUD$483,714. The second week it dipped 29%.[20] [edit] References
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