The Uninvited (1944)
Directed by Lewis Allen
A pair of siblings from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price—and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.
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What critics compared The Uninvited to
With its spooky house, strange noises, and foggy scenes, The Others reminded me of The Uninvited, one of my favorite films of the forties starring Ray Milland and Gail Russell.
But in reality, this film has a lot more in common with such classic haunted-house tales as 1944's "The Uninvited" and the original 1963 version of "The Haunting."
There's a little bit of The Innocents, of Andre de Toth's House of Wax, of John Fowles's (more than William Wyler's) The Collector, and a lot--a lot a lot a lot--of Lewis Allen's great The Uninvited (to which del Toro has already paid homage in a film he produced, Mama).
It kept reminding me of the original The Uninvited (1944), a much better ghost story that I heartily recommend in place of this film.
As the clues mount, Bruckner doles out scares in mounting intensity, a template for haunted-house movies dating at least back to 1944’s The Uninvited .