Another Hollywood thriller inspired by a Korean horror flick, The Uninvited has a serviceable premise.
Anna (Emily Browning), a fragile teenage girl, is released from a sanitarium where she has been confined following the fire that killed her mother.
But when she returns home, she is distraught to learn that her father (David Strathairn) is now living with her mother's nurse (Elizabeth Banks). Anna begins seeing ghosts that suggest the nurse killed her mother, but are these visions reliable spectres like the ghost in Hamlet, or figments of her imagination?
The remake has been entrusted to Brit directors, the Guard brothers, who honed their skills on commercials. They try hard to speak in lofty terms of the Freudian influences on their movie, but in truth it's a gimmicky thriller.
The final reel turns everything on its head and doesn't make sense. You're left snorting in disbelief rather than smiling in pleasure over being duped.
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