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The Uninvited (1944)
While vacationing on the English coast, composer Rick Fitzgerald and his sister Pamela find an an abandoned 18th-century house and decide to buy it. They soon discover that the reason the price is very cheap is the house's unsavory past.
7 January 1903, Birmingham, England, UK
4 February 1875, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
27 March 1885, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
27 July 1882, Bow, London, England, UK
30 July 1882, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
21 June 1896, Dickinson, North Dakota, USA
February 17, 1891 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
30 October 1911, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
19 June 1890, Southfields, London, England, UK
18 February 1905, London, England, UK
30 May 1899, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 September 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA
October 29, 2013
a serious-minded, visually elegant chiller with real dramatic weight that was destined to stand apartFebruary 15, 2009
Decidedly more spooky than scary.February 09, 2006
The real strength of the film, though, is its atypical stance part way between psychology and the supernatural, achieving a disturbingly serious effect.December 09, 2013
'This is the only way I can paint you,' says Milland, at the piano. 'Some black keys, and some white.' The speaker might as well be cinematographer Charles Lang, whose painterly compositions -- some black keys, and some white -- make this a spooky gem.March 25, 2006
The one thing -- and the only thing -- about this film is that it sets out to give you the shivers -- and will do so, if you're readily disposed.November 05, 2013
Its thrills and chills are little frissons that tickle the imagination instead of grabbing by the throat.January 01, 2000
An archetypal 40s ghost story, ambitiously decked out in high studio finery, with billowing curtains and other kinds of hyperromantic kitsch that can put you in mind of death by tuberculosis, though ultimately it's a bit of a letdown.October 28, 2013
The Uninvited was...one of the first films to treat the supernatural seriously, and to play ghosts and hauntings as something other than fodder for comedy.March 27, 2009
For modern audiences, the movie is more elegantly creepy than truly scary, but it still charms.January 19, 2005
An impressive, though outdated, old-fashioned ghost story.