The Uninvited features a troubled young girl, Anna (Emily Browning, Lemony Snicket), who is being released from a mental ward after a suicide attempt she made shortly after seeing a fire that killed her sick mother. Upon returning, she finds her father, Steven (David Strathairn, The Spiderwick Chronicles) has a new girlfriend in Rachel (Elizabeth Banks, The 40-Year-Old Virgin), who just happened to be her mother's nurse. Needless to say, neither Anna, nor her sister Alex (Arielle Kebbel, The Grudge 2) like the idea of their Dad getting a new woman so soon after their mother's death.
When Anna starts having visions of her mother's charred corpse, it's obvious that she is trying to get a message to the girl, and Anna thinks it has something to do with Rachel. It isn't long before the sisters start investigating the new woman in their lives and begin to suspect that the fire that burned down the boat-house with their mother inside wasn't caused by a simple leak or rusted valve. In fact, signs start to point towards Rachel not even being her real name and the possibility that she has killed before. Of course, their father is too blinded by his infatuation to see her for who she really is and when he leaves town, things come to a head between the three really quickly.
The Uninvited doesn't have a whole lot in the way of special features. The deleted scenes add a little extra to the film, but aren't really necessary in the grand scheme of things, but the film's "Alternate Ending" isn't anything more than one or two extra lines that are barely noticeable and quite frankly could have easily been lumped in with the deleted scenes. The last feature, a making-of, is interesting, but again doesn't really add a whole lot.
Besides the obvious boost in video and audio quality, there isn't a lot in The Uninvited to entice you to buy the Blu-ray version over the standard DVD one. The story is good and I found it had a couple of nice little surprises, but unless you just want to further your Hi-Def collection, there isn't really any reason to pick up this version over the cheaper one.
