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The Uninvited (2008/IFC/MPI DVD)

 

Picture: C     Sound: C+     Extras: C-     Feature: C

 

 

Marguerite Moreau plays a woman suffering from something similar to agoraphobia (fear of distances) when her personal illness and underlying issues of the past start to return from the repressed in Bob Badway’s The Uninvited (2008), a situation made more complicated by her husband (Men At Work lead singer Colin Hay) who is making a documentary of her illness and is helping… sort of.

 

However, something very wrong is going on as elements of Satanism start to surface and anything is possible from there.  Unfortunately, Badway’s script has very limited suspense and he has no idea how to get around the genre nuances he is attempting to weave together.  Hay is not bad, but the unknowns cast are boring, but then there is not much to challenge them here.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image is shot in High Definition video and is weak throughout, made worse by lower-definition digital video in parts and the overall mix is weak.  The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is also soundfield weak and the recording sometimes has the issues of a location recording.  Extras include a trailer and audio commentary track.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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