Monday 24 January 2011

The uninvited (Psychological thriller).

The Uninvited.




The uninvited is a Horror/Psychological thriller. It follows a lot of the conventions that this sub genre carries. For example, all the way through it has a misleading storyline, with the plot changing as the film progresses. This is done by making the audience think that the fathers fiancee is the antagonist, when we find out at the end that the main character has a physcological problem and has murdered the 'stepmother' thinking it was her sister. The main character develops and obsession with proving that her stepmother murdered her mother to be with her dad. This becomes stronger as the film progresses and we find ourselves believing this too, this is a convention of thrillers. Extraordinary evens happen throughout the film to the main character, as she has visions of her mother and starts repetitively seeing three dead children, who she believes were killed by her stepmother. We then find out at the end that even though her older sister was with her during the film, she actually died in the same explosion her mother did, and shed been seeing things. The main character is shown to be one step ahead of the stepmother the whole way through the film, though suspense is created as the stepmother catches on to her research and becomes a threat, but not for the same reason we feel she is. Her time at the hospital isolates her as a character, though this isn't shown straight away as we think her sister is on her side until the very end. She is in danger on a mental level in the film, as the threat of being labelled crazy is over her head the whole time, and she is worried she will be sent back to the hospital. We as an audience don't know if what shes seeing is real or imaginary through the film.

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