I was excited to learn there was a follow up to one of my favorite scary movies, "The Uninvited." Too bad this movie doesn't come anywhere close to the mystery and charm of its predecessor. The film has such great potential, but all of the mysterious plot points revealed throughout the film add up to nothing in the end. For example, what is the point of including the previous governess in the film at all? Barney gets his orders to open the door and leave the elephant in the window as a signal that he's opened the door from the murderer. He's never given any other instructions or destructive orders that we know of, so what's the point of the phone calls, and what is the point of her showing up as the new housekeeper? It's pointless! Even worse, the center of the mystery is the murderer who on a nightly basis enters the house so he can access the boarded up house next door via the basement. Why? Because he is going to clean up the blood from the murder he committed several years before. It's a ridiculous motivation. He cares an awful lot about some old blood stains, but he doesn't seem to care much about exposing himself by murdering the old lady with the watch and the former governess.
Review of The Unseen
