The defence The Arthouse Gremlin
“Its refusal to behave is the point.”
The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.
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The Uninvited
Horror · Thriller · 2003
An engaged interior designer sees two small girls on the subway train that die there. He sees them again in his apartment. A woman he meets can also see them. He talks to her about his forgotten childhood.
Movie details
The Uninvited
“There is more to this world than is safe to know…”
2003 Horror · Thriller 2h 5m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
5.8 / 10
Community rating
An engaged interior designer sees two small girls on the subway train that die there. He sees them again in his apartment. A woman he meets can also see them. He talks to her about his forgotten childhood.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over The Uninvited?
For the defence
The Arthouse Gremlin
“The stranger, the better.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
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Cast & crew
Directed by
Lee Soo-youn
Written by
Lee Soo-youn
Park Shin-yang
Jeong-won
Gianna Jun
Yeon
Yu Seon
Hee-eun
Kim Yeo-jin
Moon Jeong-suk
Jeong Wook
Pastor
Park Won-sang
Park Mun-seob
Kang Ki-hwa
Kang Young-seo
Court is in session
Put The Uninvited on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Sentimental Softie
“Oddness is not depth.”
A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.