"Pretty little Anna, you're not going to ruin this for me" - THE UNINVITED trailer!

by Matt Holmes

Elizabeth Banks made a great horror victim in the 2006 B-Movie SLITHER but in a complete reversal of fortune here she is playing one helluva bitch stepmother in THE UNINVITED, the first studio feature length movie from the directing brothers Charles & Thomas Guard. It's a remake of the popular 2003 Korean movie A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, a movie that was an effective chiller from the peak of that awesome few years of Korean horror where you were getting six or seven genre pieces that were pissing on anything Hollywood had to offer. The movie was about two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. They have kept the same plot for the remake... HD VERSION ON MYSPACE TRAILER PARK!

Everything that doesn't involve Banks, I'm not sure I'm fond of. Most explicitly how much the 2.19 minute trailer gives away. The direction feels a little hoaky, the acting from the two young leads feels a little sloppy and the trailer is more than a little confusing to follow. But all in all, it just looks like the typical Hollywood remake of a very good Asian horror. See MIRRORS, THE EYE, etc, if you liked those - you know what your getting yourself in for here. THE UNINVITED opens January 30th but not until May 29th in the U.K.

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.