Who Really is the Uninvited?

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Before we start, for those who have not seen the movie – who do you think the uninvited is?  Do you think it is some creepy ghost?  How about a scary monster?

What actors play in this horror film?

• Emily Browning plays Anna
• Arielle Kebbel plays Alex
• David Strathairn plays Steven
• Elizabeth Banks plays Rachel
• Maya Massar plays the mother
• Kevin McNulty plays Sheriff Emery
• Jess Moss plays Matt
• Dean Paul Gibson plays Dr. Silberling
• Don S. David plays Mr. Henson
• Lex Burnham plays Iris
• Matthew Bristol plays David
• Danny Bristol plays Samuel

• Heather Doerksen plays Mildred

Some facts about the movie:

1. The movie came out in 2009.
2. The uninvited was directed by Charles and Thomas Guard
3. Craig Rosenberg, Doug Miro, and Carlo Bernard wrote the screenplay.
4. The title is also known as A Tale of Two Sisters and Apparition
5. The movie is rated PG-13 due to violent and disturbing images, thematic material, sexual content, and teenage drinking situations.
6. If you watch closely, you’ll see that Anna and Alex’s mothers bell is placed on one wrist, and then later it is on the other one.
7. The ending has a completely surprising twist, that you’ll have to see to believe

So what happens in the movie, you ask?

The movie starts out with Anna describing her vivid nightmare to her pscyhologist Dr. Silberling.  They try to figure out why she is still having the dream 10 months after the incident, and what the watering can means.  The doctor decides Anna is ready to go back home and ‘finish what she started’. 

When Anna returns back home to see what she left behind, she is not very pleased with what she finds.  Her soon to be (evil) step-mom used to be the live-in nurse for their mother when she was bed-ridden and dying.  Both daughters were determined that Rachel’s soul plan was to get rid of the them. 

Many times throughout the movie Anna sees ‘things’, typically as if she is having nightmares – only she is not asleep.  Many times she sees these ghost children whom tell her to not go home, and that she is next in line to die.  Eventually she finds out the story  behind a nurse who fell in love with the husband of a sick patient, so she killed the wife and the children (whom would be the ghost children).  They learn the name of that nurse was Mildred Kemp, they even see a picture of Mildred online wearing a pearl necklace, the same one Rachel wears.  So both girls are sure that Rachel is really Mildred Kemp. 

After trying to explain this to the police, Anna is injected with some sort of drug and sedated.  Rachel takes Anna back home where she plans to stab her to death.  However, that is not what happens at all.

This is where the twist comes into play.  Anna wakes up and stumbles outside, following a path of blood and finds Rachel in the garbage, dead – to learn that Alex killed her, saying it was the only way and that it had to be done. 

Finally, their dad arrives home to see the two of them covered in blood, holding hands.  He asks what has been done, and Anna tells him that Alex had to kill Rachel because she was after them.  Then the dad tells Anna that Alex died in the fire a year ago.   So, Anna looks back on what happened in the fire, and the past year to see that she accidentally started the fire.

So, who really is the uninvited?  You tell me!