“…the anti-Twilight of 2008.

Should a horror film be able to redeem its own idiocy with a switcheroo ending? The Uninvited, a Hollywood remake of a Korean production, certainly hopes so. Up until its last 10 minutes, The Uninvited is increasingly ludicrous and frustrating. The movie opens as high-schooler Anna (Emily Browning) is being released from a psychiatric hospital,

“…feels as if someone had videotaped their trip through a haunted house run by the local Jaycees.”

“The climax is deadening. Somewhere, Michael Haneke is saying, ‘I told you so.’

“File Prom Night with those thrillers that make you root for the killer rather than the victims, so annoying and vacuous are the picture’s stars.

Despite all the subtext writer-director Jay Lee tries to squeeze into Zombie Strippers – involving everything from the Iraq war to the degradation of women in the sex industry to the psychology of sex workers themselves – it is still far outweighed by lengthy striptease sequences. In other words, there is an awful lot of

“Dawn may be the heroine of Teeth, but in the end the movie is still a little afraid of her.

This avenging ghost story gets you on the ghost’s side early on, which helps you forgive the shlockiness that often mars the picture. Newlywed Jane (Rachael Taylor) seems OK, but her photographer husband Ben (an oddly macho Joshua Jackson) is a pompous jerk. When Ben gets a photo assignment in Japan, Jane meets Ben’s former

"Fortifying your horror film with an intellectual subtext is all well and good – Romero was one of the first to show how this could be done – but you might want to also make sure it’s frightening."

“…missed a golden opportunity by not becoming one of the first films to debut on the iPhone. Steve Jobs could have offered specter screening as a feature.