Hollywood's latest thriller 'Uninvited' is inspired by a Korean horror movie title 'The Uninvited'. While, the directors and producers speak loftily of Freudian influences on their film, the truth is that it is just another gimmicky thriller and very unfair on the audience.

We have Anna (Emily Browning), a fragile teenage girl, just released from the sanitarium where she was kept confined, after her mother happened to be killed in a fire. On returning home, she finds her father (David Strathairn) is now living with her mother's nurse (Elizabeth Banks). A distraught Anna begins to hallucinate about ghosts suggesting the nurse killed her mother.

Cheesy rather then deliciously scary, the film never really generates sustained suspense. Directed by novice Brit directors, the Guard brothers, who honed their skills on commercials, 'Uninvited' 'Uninvited' has failed to capture the elegantly sinister style of another British director, Danny Boyle, in his debut film 'Shallow Grave'. The Guards do sometimes elicit requisite squeals from the audience, however, no originality comes across in their work.