Uninvited Trailer

Didn’t Want to Go Anyway / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | October 9, 2008 | Comments (24)

It’s not due for release until January of 2009, but Dreamworks is already pimping the hell out of its trailer for The Uninvited, a remake of the Korean horror film, Changhwa, Hongryon. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why. Sure, it stars David Staithern, who is great, and Elizabeth Banks, who is great, but man alive, it looks dull. I’m used to being bored to flatulence by remakes of Asian horror films, but at least they usually manage to put together a compelling trailer.

Not so much here:

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Is that movie actually about something? The only thing I could absorb from the trailer was "Hey, that's that cute girl from Lemony Snicket."

And a vague thankfulness that David Strathairn still works.

Posted by: lizzieborden at October 9, 2008 4:06 PM

The Uninvited, a remake of the Korean horror film...aaaahhhhh..STOP just STOP.

STOP IT.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 9, 2008 4:15 PM

Wow. What shite.

Posted by: Admin11 at October 9, 2008 4:24 PM

I saw this trailer yesterday and thought the same thing. It made me long for another Saw sequel. Oh wait a minute there is another mother fucking Saw sequel! And mark my words, IT WILL SUCK. Where the fuck are the good horror movies?

Posted by: mateo at October 9, 2008 5:00 PM

Save $10 and rent the Korean original from Netflix. Search under "Tale of Two Sisters".

As for what the Korean title (Changhwa, Hongryon) means--it refers to a well-known folk tale about two sisters (Changhwa is older) whose mother dies and father remarries. The stepmother brings her own children into the house, creating Cinderella situation in the household (except that there is no happy ending here).

Posted by: True_Blue at October 9, 2008 6:45 PM

i actually saw "tale of two sisters" several years ago and thought it was pretty decent. although i was also heavily medicated for a recent wisdom tooth extraction and sleeping on the couch in my mother's creepy den, so who knows. but it did scare the shit out of me at one point.

so sick of the american remakes of korean horror flicks though. i find it insulting to my intelligence.

Posted by: amy at October 9, 2008 7:18 PM

I can see where they cribbed some images (lake house, creepy ghosts, hands reaching out from underneath the kitchen cabinets) from the original, but it other than that it looks like a completely different movie.

Why can't they just leave well enough alone?

Posted by: Alabamapink at October 9, 2008 7:19 PM

Bwah? That doesn't look like A Tale of Two Sisters....

Posted by: Maggiemoony at October 9, 2008 7:46 PM

That girl looks like she's had her lips hollowed out and filled with soft serve ice cream. Not a bad thing, just saying.

Posted by: Audiosuede at October 9, 2008 7:46 PM

Okay, do real people take baths and slooowly lower their head under, or just when something "terrifying" is about to happen? And what are they rinsing? I see no shampoo nor soap on their heads. Ever.

Posted by: Erin S at October 9, 2008 8:02 PM

I'm sorry. I know we're talking about another shit J or K or LMNOP-Horror knock off in the long list of shittier "remakes" anally leaking out of Hollywood. But there can't possibly be anything more shitty or terrifying than what I'm being subjected to right now.

Watching the premiere episode of "Kath & Kim."

I have no idea why I haven't changed the channel on these bitches. It's like I'm stuck in an invisible one of those contraptions from A Clockwork Orange.

Seriously, has anybody else sat through this tripe for the last 20 minutes? I feel like my insides are liquifying.

Thank Jeebus supernatural with about to start.

Posted by: College Boy at October 9, 2008 9:01 PM

"Supernatural with about to start"?

Christ on a waffle cone. That's what one episode of that crap did to me. Goodbye English degree.

Posted by: College Boy at October 9, 2008 9:04 PM

I don't know. . . . I'm sure the movie will suck, but I REALLY like Emily Browning (I even liked GHOST SHIP).

Posted by: ncnn at October 9, 2008 10:25 PM

college boy, I came in from work and found my TV/cable reception all screwed up. Otherwise, I would probably be watching "Kath and Kim." Do you think I should be grateful to Charter Comm that I can't watch K&K? It spared me that, but I also missed the Office.

Posted by: rlr260 at October 9, 2008 10:39 PM

This is the girl from Limony Snicket-- I wish they did a sequel to THAT movie. :(

Posted by: sara at October 9, 2008 11:06 PM

Wait, that's is the girl from A Series of Unfortunate Events? Oh my, back then she made me (and my ex) feel so wrong.

Still not watching it though. Trailer looks like shit.

Posted by: JC at October 9, 2008 11:12 PM

I remember coming out of the cinema after watching Lemony Snicket. I remember trying to carefully formulate a certain sentence so that it wouldn't sound too creepy. I remember the slightly horrified look on my then-girlfriend's face as I said 'Y'know, that girl is gonna be fine when she's older'. And, come to think of it, I now remember that it was around that time that things started going south between us. Damn you, Elizabeth Banks!

Posted by: Dill The Devil at October 10, 2008 7:47 AM

Emily Browning is hawt.

Posted by: WhoWhatWhere at October 10, 2008 7:47 AM

Since it were mentioned...

WHERE THE FRAK are the lemony snicket movie(s)?

I recall there were multiple books and more movies coming...

Posted by: WhoWhatWhere at October 10, 2008 7:51 AM

Never mind her, who's her friend in the striped bikini? Yowza!

Posted by: max at October 10, 2008 1:40 PM

Never mind her, who's her friend in the striped bikini? Yowza!

Posted by: max at October 10, 2008 1:40 PM

It's not the trailer, its the movie. I just can't be afraid of Elizabeth Banks... It's physically impossible

Posted by: roseaepines at October 10, 2008 3:26 PM

They're doing a Broadway "revival" of West Side Story, with "some new songs."

It's official. Nothing is sacred.

Bernstein (Leonard) / Bernstein (Carl) '08

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at October 13, 2008 6:39 AM

Seems I have seen this woman on some tall dating place yet,The ideal place to pick up women as far as i know __ www.Tallchat.com __ cute, hot , talented... whatever u can come up with...LOL

Posted by: sand at October 14, 2008 4:37 AM

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